Songs disappear upon relaunching Music

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Songs disappear upon relaunching Music

Hi everyone. I'm hoping that someone may know a way on how to go about this strange issue in Music.

I recently added three songs from the same artist and album to my music library. For some reason after opening Music the next time two of the songs are gone (video link attached). Things I tried so far:

import the two missing songs
copy and paste the songs elsewhere, delete the one from music library and import them back
import only the two missing songs and wait a few minutes for Music to sync with iCloud (though this is not needed)
remove all three songs and import them back into the library
delete the entire artist folder from the main Music library folder and import the songs again
restart my Mac

https://youtu.be/bZZreR9Zcgw

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on May 13, 2022 12:22 PM

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dembow Author

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May 13, 2022 4:01 PM in response to turingtest2

Thank you both for your replies. This kept me busy the entire afternoon today and I just wouldn't let it go. Music and the accompanying Apple Music service have been giving me headaches with different issues for a while now.

So it turns out I had to hunt down the two affected songs in every playlist and delete them. I had them previously added to a few playlists from Apple Music, but not in the actual library. I have the option Add song to Library when adding to playlist disabled as I prefer to audit certain songs before I actually add them to my music library and would usually purchase them anyway to support the artist, but also in case songs I enjoy magically disappear from Apple Music for whatever reason (happened before). Once the affected songs were completely gone from every corner of the Music app, and I also verified this from my iPhone, importing them back this time around made them stay in the library. I closed Music a couple of times to be sure and restarted my Mac, but other folks may have found a different way to get around this or similar issues.

For a company that reinvented the music industry, I would expect a bit more care for the most important app on your Mac. They only recently resolved the issue with Play Next feature on the Mac. As bloated as iTunes was, I genuinely don't remember running into this many problems with the most basic actions.

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turingtest2

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May 13, 2022 3:42 PM in response to dembow

The seems to be an ongoing issue with Apple Music on Monterey where updates to the local library don't sync up to the cloud. The library may later revert to the cloud version. Behaviour may be better after a restart or with Home Sharing disabled. Hopefully this will be fixed in the next release.

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May 13, 2022 3:02 PM in response to dembow

For me, Apple Music on macOS has been broken for about 6 months. Not exactly the same issue but basically the same thing: Changes to my Apple Music library on my Mac are overwritten by whatever is in the cloud when I restart the app or File > Library > Update Cloud Library. So I add music, make playlists, add/remove songs from existing playlists, all of the things that are easier on the Mac (and in some cases, the Mac is the only place these things are possible), and then all of those changes disappear.

This isn't a new issue. It's been happening to a lot of people for months but the only "help" you'll get is "sign in and out of everything and restart" which does nothing except waste more time and maybe "fix" things for a few minutes.

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Songs disappear upon relaunching Music

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