Music.app seems to forget ALL settings, sometimes.
Music.app seems to forget ALL settings, sometimes.
Macbook Pro 2012 Retina Display
macOS Catalina with all updates as of May 2023
Most recent available version of Music.app
Due to local hard drive space issues, I recently moved my entire Music Library to a 1TB SD card. Most of the time, everything is fine. SOMETIMES, when I open Music.app, it opens up like I have never used iTunes.app or Music.app ever before. All my Music Library files are still there.
There is no way to just tell Music.app "There's my library, take it in."
I do change the storage folder to the existing Music Library location, but it doesn't import all of that.
I log in to my Apple Account in Music.app and the app wants to download ALL of my music stored in iCloud. There are many problems with this.
- It's a terabyte of data.
- The files are ALREADY RIGHT THERE. So I'd need another 1TB of storage to redownload my entire library.
- This happens more than once a month. My monthly internet cap is 1.2 TB.
- When I do let it start downloading, it doesn't recognize that the files are already there and downloads a duplicate * 1.* named file.
- Music Match or iCloud or iTunes or wtvr the service is called wants to replace my personally created high resolution lossless recordings with the 3 256kbps files. So... like I have backups of those of course. But what the heck???
- This is all just absolutely terrible.
plz help.
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