Apple Music has duplicated ALL Music content
I've been looking into this for a while now and had a Eureka moment. First I'll explain what's happened.
Music (MacOS Sonoma) has duplicated my entire library. Prior to joining Apple Music (maybe a year back) I had some 12,000 tracks. Now every single track has both the physical entry, and a cloud entry. More than this, every single one of my playlists has been duplicated. (This seems to be continuing, some playlists are have up to 4 copies!!)
I attempted deleting the duplicate (empty) playlists but this then resulted in my actual playlists getting destroyed when I signed out and back in to Music (following another post that suggested this as a way of fixing the duplicated track problem).
I think I have the playlist issue under control as I reverted a Time Machine backup while offline and exported all the playlists to XML so I should be able to get them back, but the library... well that's all still duplicates.
What I have noticed is that each of the duplicates has a timestamp an hour out from the timestamp for the cloud version. Probably due to some incorrect DST conversion somewhere. And I was wondering if anyone had seen this? I'm thinking that being in the UK, the DST change not being synchronised with the US may have a bearing, but that's just grasping at straws.
Here's an example of what I'm seeing - note the date modified. This file has not been modified, nor has it been removed and the actual file time on the (external) drive is 01/04/2018 20:37, so the Cloud time is incorrect
Perhaps it's going to be a case of creating a new library somehow and adding absolutely everything back into it. I would love to hear suggestions, as anything I'm doing just fills me with the fear it is going to wipe the physical copies or increase the number of duplicates!
Mac mini (M1, 2020)