Monterey Upgrade from Mojave - Apple Music Library EMPTY!

Yep, that's right. NO MUSIC. All 1050+ complete albums that I ripped… GONE.

The music files still exist on my external RAID, but NO MUSIC in Apple Music!

I finally upgraded from Mojave to Monterey.

After the upgrade, my entire iTunes Library didn't appear in the Music app. It was perfectly fine in Mojave iTunes a few hours earlier. The only music that appeared were the two things I bought from Apple… one song, one album, that's it. The rest I ripped from my CD library!

The music files are still in the Music/Media folder, unharmed.

Short of rebuilding my Music Library, is there any fix?

I have a 2019 15" MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz i9, 32GB RAM.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Feb 5, 2022 12:20 PM

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turingtest2

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Feb 5, 2022 12:23 PM in response to Mr. Reeee

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tt2

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Feb 10, 2022 7:42 AM in response to turingtest2

That was no help. Thanks anyway.

Since my iTunes music library is stored on an external RAID there were no backup Library files to swap. I've used that method with things on Macs taking stuff from external backup drives, but with a RAID this is simply not possible.

So, I gave up and just reimported everything from my old iTune library to a new Monterey Music app library. Tedious, with 1000 complete albums, but it's done.

NOW if I could only fix the way Music on my iPhone 13 Pro (iODS 15.3) replaces new album art, from freshly ripped CDs and scanned cover art, with album art that already exists in the pre-Monterey iTunes Library life would be good.

I can tell you, it's pretty weird seeing an album of orchestral music by Roger Sessions with the album art of Franco-Flemish polyphony by Agricola.

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