why does making playlist iTunes delete songs from library?
When making playlists, using CDs ripped into my iTunes library, I get this box that stops me. Why would I delete my tracks to make a playlist?e a playlist?
Windows, Windows 10
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When making playlists, using CDs ripped into my iTunes library, I get this box that stops me. Why would I delete my tracks to make a playlist?e a playlist?
Windows, Windows 10
See Identify cloud status icons in your music library on your Mac or PC - Apple Support. The iCloud Music Library, which will be shared between any computers and devices where you have it enabled, is not able to include certain ineligible content. If you try to add any such item that is in your library to a cloud eligible playlist it will make that playlist ineligible for the cloud, and it will be removed from the iCloud Music Library. The playlist and songs themselves remain in the local library in either case.
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See Identify cloud status icons in your music library on your Mac or PC - Apple Support. The iCloud Music Library, which will be shared between any computers and devices where you have it enabled, is not able to include certain ineligible content. If you try to add any such item that is in your library to a cloud eligible playlist it will make that playlist ineligible for the cloud, and it will be removed from the iCloud Music Library. The playlist and songs themselves remain in the local library in either case.
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When you sign into your Apple ID on any computer or device you get access to your unhidden purchase history in the cloud. If you have iTunes Match or Apple Music you also get access to your iCloud Music Library which can include additional songs that have been matched or uploaded from a computer or device, or in the case of Apple Music, other songs from the iTunes catalogue that you choose to add to your library. This library can be shared across up to ten computers and devices, all of which will have access to the same collection of tracks and playlists. A change made in one location should be reflected in another via the cloud. If you have Sync Library or iCloud Music Library enabled on a computer then you will see the entire iCloud Music Library, along with any ineligible content in the local library or any other content that hasn't been added to the cloud library. By definition this content will only be stored locally on that computer.
I referred you to Identify cloud status icons in your music library on your Mac or PC - Apple Support earlier so that you can check on the status of tracks in your library. The notification you posted earlier states that the playlist Christmas will be removed from the iCloud Music Library if you proceed, but you haven't told us anything about the song or songs you were trying to add to it at the time. Removing a playlist doesn't of itself remove any tracks from the library. I don't know it the playlist already contains some items. The only thing I can tell from here is that one of the tracks you were trying to add is in your local library and ineligible for iCloud Music Library, otherwise you wouldn't have got that warning message. Closely inspect the tracks you were planning to add to see if you can work out which was causing the issue and why. One possible cause might be a locally stored track bought with a different Apple ID.
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"iCloud Music Library can only contain songs from your iCloud Music Library
If you continue, Christmas will be removed from your iCloud Music Library and will only be available from this computer
Remove from iCloud Cancel"
Christmas was then and is now my attempt to make a playlist
All my songs except recent Taylor Swift are CD ripped. I do not understand why my tracks would be removed from the library. Since all my CD sourced tracks are cloud-marked, I find it a miserable threat.
I do not buy from Apple Music since my experience was a garbled series of tracks. I bought the related CD and am happy.
Please explain why they would be REMOVED, not just copied or filed for a quick playlist.
Again, nothing will be removed from your local library. The message tells you that the specific playlist (not the tracks that comprise it) will be removed from the iCloud Music Library if you add the particular track to the list. What is the iCloud status of the track that you're trying to add? Perhaps the track hasn't been successfully matched or uploaded.
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Since all my tracks are marked with a cloud (new-ish mark) I misunderstood that all my ripped tracks were in the cloud and would be REMOVED.
You suggest that the iCloud Music Library is NOT my CD based music library?
Why remove tracks that I paid for? Why not just copy them?
Except for the Taylor Swift I mentioned, ALL are CD sourced.
I evaluated and all tracks are cloud with down arrow, implying to me that they are all in the cloud. NO tracks in my iTunes library fail to have that icon, no tracks from anywhere else are loaded into a playlist.
What, specifically, is the Cloud Status and kind of the track you try to add to the Christmas playlist that triggers the warning message? iCloud Status should be one of Matched, Uploaded, Duplicate, Error, Ineligible, Removed, Waiting, etc.
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All of my ripped CD albums have the cloud status, blue cloud with arrow.
That means to me that they are in the cloud.
I don't use it much, and with the threat I posted, I have problem thinking I'd begin a new playlist.
attempting to post the error flag, I don't succeed
What is the exact text of the error message?
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why does making playlist iTunes delete songs from library?