Apple Music splitting albums into 2 separate albums & more.

I’d love to use Apple Music but it has so many bugs/problems that it’s genuinely concerning. One of the problems is that it constantly splits one album into two. Some songs go into one of the duplicated albums and the other songs go to the other duplicated album. Currently i’ve been having this problem with Her Loss by Drake & 21 Savage and also What A Time To Be Alive by Drake & Future. I’ve been having this problem for years and it’s something that shouldn’t be happening. Please fix this app.

Posted on Apr 8, 2023 9:56 AM

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Posted on May 21, 2023 10:29 AM

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...

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May 21, 2023 10:29 AM in response to navifye

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...

Nov 24, 2023 3:45 PM in response to tokky

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

Jan 17, 2024 9:11 AM in response to MikiloIX

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.

Jan 24, 2024 9:27 PM in response to navifye

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.

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