Music library uneditable (Monterey 12.1)

this is not working for me, the only way to have the two devices synced is to delete the music from the other one (the mobile phone) and to add it again to the library from the MacBook. Easy to do if you have to sync one song or album, impossible in case of massive editing.

I've just sen that even if you edit a Samrt playlist on the Mac in the music app it reverts once you resync to the former one...total pain....only way to edit is delete and start again!!!

Nope--didn't last. But logging out and back in is faster than rebooting the system.

I tried your suggestion and it tells me that I cannot switch libraries, because the current library is used by a device.

Then it tells me to log in without connected devices to switch library.

How do I solve this? Do I have to log out of Apple Music on my phone and then try your suggestion on my Macbook?

I am on Monterey 12.1 by the way.

Jeff Melrose wrote:

They were all there, the missing ones were in a pocket "Music" folder inside the "Music" folder inside the "Media" folder inside the "Music" Folder.

That would suggest the media folder was incorrectly set to ~/Music/Music/Media/Music rather than ~/Music/Music/Media at some point.

Do the genius bar people knwo this stuff?

Probably not. Repairing broken libraries is an arcane art. I don't see a support article on the topic, and I doubt there is a support script for it.

tt2

I'm having the same issues – any changes I make to song/album/artist titles only save for a couple of minutes, and then revert back to the Apple Music default. Same with attempting to delete/remove albums from my library – after a few minutes, it just shows back up. This is extremely frustrating, as I've been using iTunes Music for 20 years and have never experienced this level of bugginess. Severely disappointed and aggravated.

I've tried this and just keep receiving the same error message as another poster ("You cannot change the music library at this time because the current library is in use by a device. Sign in without connected devices to change your music library.")

I have never used any other library previously, and I signed out on my iPhone (my issues are in Music for macOS Monterey).

I initially thought that making these changes from the "Albums" tab, rather than the "Recently Added" one was making the changes stick, but it was just delayed – after a few minutes, same issues.

I've created a similar thread here - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253562032 - and as of today, it seems everything is now working as it should: deleting music, rating songs or modifying metadata is now updating my library in the cloud!

Did it start working for you as well?

Okay, so...I've tested it this morning on my Mac and it seems resolved for me, at least, even despite there not being a macOS update yet. I deleted an album I no longer wanted and it stayed gone, and I made metadata changes to another album and removed some of the tracks, and the changes seem to have stuck, even after updating my iCloud Music Library a few times and shutting down and relaunching the Music app. Hallelujah!

Well the problem is getting worse for me. Every time I update the library with the cloud, all changes are lost and information reset to how it is on my phone (the only other device where I'm using Apple Music). I'm about to give up :( it's completely unusable now, I'm looking to downgrade now to Big Sur because this is just a deal breaker for me..

That's extremely frustrating...believe me, I know. I was simply just not even going through and listening to new music I had added to my library at all because I was unable to make the changes I wanted to. Let's hope that this new version of the Music app that's coming up will help fix all these issues (and that a Monterey update coming soon will, as well). 🤞

I have had this issue for weeks and have followed all advice up to the point that I do not sync Mac Music with anything (turned it off on iPhone and logged out of Apple TV and turned off home sharing) updated to OS12.2 and the issues persist - delete an album from library and it comes back a few minutes later - can't add songs to a playlist about 50% of the time. Bloody ridiculous I buy new equipment and keep updated precisely to avoid these basic operating issues, I've run out of options to try... 🤬

Thanks for the reply but if you re-read my post I am not trying to sync with iPhone - I have signed out of all devices that sync Music and am ONLY using the Mac to operate Music - nothing else. It works fine on my iPhone (same Apple ID I only have one) it's the Mac that doesn't function correctly.

Figure this one : When I change the metadata (genre, etc) using my old iMac (with Catalina) everything works fine. The problem is always there when I use my new iMac (with Monterey). Does this raise any ideas?

I 100% agree with you, same experience and issues. I Have a 60.000 songs library, catalogued into more than 150 genres, and the impossibility to have everything in order and synced is totally impairing my user experience. It worked perfectly under the old iTunes on a 2009 iMac. My apple music subscription is expiring next month and I am seriously thinking of not renewing it. I will look into alternatives, starting from the Swinsian you mention. Thank you.