Apple Music splitting albums into 2 separate albums & more.

I have this issue too for over 10 years now! It is bugy on multiple levels.

I get albums splitting in the apple music osx app. Changing the album name and then back again will fix this, but some split AGAIN after relaunching app. These albums I then have to delete and re import, and that fixes it permanently.

I also get artists to split as well, when adding new music.

And even when everything looks good on the osx app, when I add them to my iPhone I then get 10% of albums splitting again. I have to then delete and re add them a few times to get them displayed properly.

My metadata is 100% correct before importing, which seems to reduce these occurrences a bit, but not the split artists or split albums on iPhone sync.

I have reported this issue several times to apple directly...

@Tokky, signing out and back into media and purchases worked for me. Thanks for sharing.

Paul! You gave me the most hope for this issue! I recently had this happen on an album (Divisive by Disturbed) and I changed the name slightly of the bulk album (album with the most of the tracks) and it recombined them.

The steps were:

Go to 'Media & Purchases"

Sign out

Sign back in again

And that was that. It's slowly going through my library but everything seems the way it should be.

It will be..... for a while. But I've noticed that the minute you make a purchase on another device, when the iPhone's media library updates with your current purchases, another random album will split. Even one of the ones you already noticed being split will split again. (or videos separated from the core album)

The only semi-permanent fix (until bugs are addressed) that I've found to work, I've documented here:

iOS/iPadOS 17.1.1 - Purchased albums splitting randomly, videos being separated from main albums

Hi navifye,

It might be helpful for you to speak with Apple directly about this issue. Click the link below for additional assistance on this matter.

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Kindest regards!

I've had this issue on my iPhone for a while, eventually got fed up and went on a chat with support this morning. It's all sorted.

The steps were:

Go to 'Media & Purchases"

Sign out

Sign back in again

And that was that. It's slowly going through my library but everything seems the way it should be.

I tried the same. BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU TRY. Now that I’ve tried this fix, previously only had 2 split albums per 150 albums now have many 2 and 3 album splits per 200 albums and seems to increase every time I log out and back in. Never happened before.

Paddywolf wrote:

So where do I find media and purchases? I'm not finding it on my iphone and that's where the problem lies

Settings > click on your Apple ID info (first option). Scroll down to "Media & Purchases"

Is this the successful solution others are referring to? Simply signing out and then immediately signing back in to media and purchases???? Oh happy days. Could it really be so easy?

I think I’ll wait a coupla days then try it myself. My roster of albums, all split, then re-split then re-re-split is such a mess I dread even going in there. I never thought any fix would work. Fingers crossed.

I have a slightly different issue, my apple music keeps putting songs from the same album together. It doesn't matter where in the playlist it is, it just puts them together. Let's suppose I have 2 songs from Taylor Swift's 1989 in my album. The first one is the first song in the album, the second one is the last in the album. I have 1,768 songs, but when I press shuffle, these two songs end up playing one after another. After they're done, the next album starts playing. It has been going on for years and I have reported to apple multiple times. If this keeps happening, I'm going to switch to Spotify.

My problem is on Apple Music for Mac OS. I tried to change the name of an already-loaded album, and Music randomly split the one album in two. Maybe it's because it's an album created from two LPs that I digitally transcribed? I have no idea. All I know is that Apple Music messes with the Mac OS library also.

Really annoying bug hope this gets fixed

I just tried this on my iPhone and it actually made it worse - an album split into 2 is now split into 3. Other split albums showed no change.

So where do I find media and purchases? I'm not finding it on my iphone and that's where the problem lies

This worked! Did exactly what you said and it worked. So much easier than trying to delete stuff and edit album names. This needs to be top comment!