Apple Music - One CD Associated with 328 Songs

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Apple Music - One CD Associated with 328 Songs

Somehow the data in Apple Music has gotten scrambled to where the Robert Plant / Alison Krause album Raising Sand now is associated with 328 songs. I have more than 3,000 songs and others artists may be incorrectly identified or have other bad info. These songs were all or almost all transferred from CDs I own, originally on a PC, but itunes / apple music worked okay on my ipad and phone until I got the macbook air and possibly until the Big Sur update.

How do I fix? As near as I can tell, the song titles are correct, but I don't know who the artists are in some cases and certainly don't want to fix 328 songs one by one.

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Feb 13, 2022 10:44 AM

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turingtest2

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Feb 13, 2022 5:51 PM in response to zpinhead

I'm assuming you don't have a subscription to either Apple Music or iTunes Match. See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - Apple Community for tools that might help you recover the files from your iPad. Might still be some work unraveling the duplicates and removing the corrupted files. You may have to bite the bullet and do it manually. Make a playlist of the affected tracks and sort by date added. This will hopefully group tracks from the same album together. You can then look up these tracks on the iPad to determine the album and artists details, and fix those a whole album at a time.

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turingtest2

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Feb 13, 2022 10:56 AM in response to zpinhead

I would assume that you tried to change details of the album while in truth having more than one albums worth of tracks selected. Is the option to keep the media folder organized enabled in your library? Do you have Time Machine backing up the library? Do you still have the PC?

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zpinhead Author

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Feb 13, 2022 2:14 PM in response to turingtest2

I suppose that's possible. The option to keep the media folder is checked. I do have a Time Machine music folder dated last July, but relatively new to Apple and am not familiar with that app. If I restore from Time Machine, can I preserve the music added since last July?

I also have an iPad Pro where the music hasn't been updated if that is of any use.

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zpinhead Author

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Mar 21, 2022 1:30 PM in response to turingtest2

Thanks. Your suggestions seem accurate, but unfortunately it appears I have to do it one album at a (long) time.

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Apple Music - One CD Associated with 328 Songs

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