Weird version of the "Looks like "_______" is no longer available." error. Need way to pinpoint these songs!
Hello! Not seeing a topic that matches my particular issue. I labelled this under the "Music on iOS" topic, but the issue occurs at least on PC and iOS, and I assume on Mac.
I am getting an error on a random assortment of songs. The error says "Looks like "___________" is no longer available." I am looking for a way to match/pinpoint the songs with this error.
As far as I can tell, there is no connection or similarity between songs that have this error.
Here's an example:
If I try to play Rihanna's (very popular, absolutely on Apple Music) Only Girl (In the World) from my library, I get this error. It loads the album art and the song length fine.
On the other hand, If I search for it in Apple Music and play it from there:
It plays just fine. Oddly, the "plus" sign in Apple Music is not pressed, indicating it's not in my library.
Notes:
- The songs HAVE played in the last year (last played date of 7/10/20), but I don't know how long it has been since I have noticed them missing.
- The issue doesn't seem to be the song's iCloud status. Their status is the normal "Apple Music".
- To back up the above bullet, I made a smart playlist filtering for "issue" iCloud statuses:
The missing songs do not appear in this list.
- I've tried restarting both my computer and iTunes itself, no luck.
- I've tried deauthorizing and reauthorizing the device, no luck.
- I've tried opening the song from another Windows workstation, no luck.
- I've tried opening the song from my iPhone, no luck.
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To be clear, I am specifically looking for a way to search for or find these issue songs. I assume if I can find them I can delete them from my library and re-add the versions from Apple Music.
Unfortunately, I have thousands of songs in my library and apparently this error doesn't fit in with normal Apple Music song issues.
I've tried everything I've read in other threads about this issue, I believe. Anyone have any bright ideas to filter for these issue songs, without manually clicking through my entire dang library? Or better, anyone have a fix for why these songs might not be playing from my library?
Thanks for the help!
Windows, Windows 6