Album missing from Music Library

Hi,

When you purchase music from iTunes Store, you should download to your computer then make a backup. If you remove download and then stream your purchased music, you will only be able to stream whilst the music is still in the Apple Store. Most music will be available to re-download but if the music is no longer available, you will lose access to it.

See following links Redownload music – Apple Support (UK) and Hide and unhide music, films, TV programmes, audiobooks and books – Apple Support (UK)

Jim

I am not sure if I have the same problem or not. This reads about the same as my problem though. What do you mean by your list of Hidden albums? Is that something you made or is that an Apple Music feature?

I was about to ask a similar question here. I was listening to a podcast last night and heard a tune that I thought was great. Went to Apple Music to buy it and it turns out that I already have it - in an album of 59 songs (from 2011) that I also have, but the album appears nowhere in Music. The album tracks appear when I search for that one song in Music and all have been dowloaded - but that album seems "hidden." It's a compilation of "various artists" sort of EP but nothing there.

Thanks - I just looked into how to look up "hidden music" and it indicates that there is none.

I know at some point I started noticing purchases that weren't there after OS updates but dropped the issue. But this is truly bizarre - I think you are correct, there is a real problem here. I made screenshots of the tracks from the search for the track I mentioned - so I can at least search for all the tracks. But not only is that inconvenient but I now wonder what else I have that is "hidden." I am not about to go through my long purchase history and check them all off.

Well, if I think of it later, I will submit a product feedback report. You might too - the more the merrier.

At least in my case, the music is still there. Played it last night. It’s just not visible in the “albums” section - I have to search for tracks. They are all downloaded. I admit that I had never backed up anything from iTunes manually but maybe Time Machine does that. Thanks for the links - will review later. I saw several in a previous search.

I read, many years ago, about purchased items disappearing this way. But mine is still in the store, available for purchase. I did download the whole thing at some point (I think there are 60 or 70 tracks) but it hasn't been "erased."

I have not tried the cmd+opt thing yet. I want to understand better what might happen. Law of unintended consequences and all that. [It just dawned on me that I need to check my other devices.]

Try holding down option+cmd as you launch iTunes/Music. This may rebuild various internal indexes which might help this album show up.

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