Fix "Cloud Status: Waiting" for songs in Apple Music

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bills7 Author

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Fix "Cloud Status: Waiting" for songs in Apple Music

I have all my songs on an old iPhone.

I have purchased Apple Music, to sync those songs over to a new iPhone

So far, so good.

But:

In "Apple Music" and the music App on my new iPhone, various songs are not available. On the Mac, they show "Cloud Status: Waiting". (About 1/3 of my music library - over 5,500 songs)

It is completely random. For instance, on the album "Birds of Fire", the title track is "Waiting", but about half of the other tracks are fine.

Is there any way to fix this?

Apple Music is not impressing me so far! :-(

Posted on Jan 14, 2021 11:53 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 15, 2021 1:14 AM in response to bills7

Hi,

Are those tracks physically on your iMac hard drive? If so, delete the tracks but don’t move to bin then readd them. I suggest that you do this in small batches.

Jim

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bills7 Author

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Jan 15, 2021 1:04 PM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

No, I have the original tracks but not with me. I'd used Apple Music for that reason - as I can't otherwise transfer music from one iphone to another. I have about 2,000 songs that have not sync'd over, so this is not a practical idea as well.

It seems a major failing of the service that you have to do these kinds of things don't you think?

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Fix "Cloud Status: Waiting" for songs in Apple Music

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