Error 13010: How Do I Fix It?
I'm hoping someone here might have the solution to my issue. I'm running Ventura 13.3 on a 14" 2023 Macbook Pro (M2 Max), although I had the same problem when I was still using my 2017 Macbook, which was one of the many reasons I upgraded my laptop this past March.
I've been getting the following error whenever I try to add or delete music from my Apple Music app:
The Music Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occurred (13010).
To be clear, I am not a subscriber of Apple Music. I use the app in the same way one would use iTunes. I have a library of 12,000 songs with actual files. They are all encoded at 256kbps AAC or higher.
This error just showed up spontaneously one day. I imagine that a corrupted file from a CD I ripped may have caused this. A few months into using my new Macbook, the error has inevitably returned, and is driving me insane.
If I restart my Mac, or sometimes even just quit the app and open it back up again, my entire library is gone. I must then Option+Click on the app to manually locate and choose my library. Recently added music often needs to be re-added, which will then prompt the error message again.
As many internet forums suggest, I've deleted the Genius.itdb file; I've consolidated my audio files; and I've deleted the past few months worth of new music from my library, slowly adding back files in order to identify the corrupted file, if there is one. ****, at one point I even rebuilt my entire library. I converted everything to AAC (within the app), and left my lossless files outside of my library. But even after all of that, I'm still getting this error message.
I've contacted the Apple Support phone number and they didn't really have any idea of what to do.
Does anyone have any insight into this? If there's a corrupted audio file, is there an efficient way to locate it? Or might there me some other issue going on here? Switching to a streaming service is not an option for me, given how many albums I have that are unavailable on them.
MacBook Pro 13″