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For whatever reason, iTunes has deleted loads of songs from albums on my Mac, which then correlates (transfers over) to my iPhone and iPad with iTunes Match, or whatever it's called these days. Manually syncing is no better for me either. If songs are not deleted, a huge portion of songs have been scattered all around my library. In other words, you pull up an album and only a few of the songs are in the album. The rest seem scattered around as individual songs with different album art. Apple can't even provide the correct album art anymore.
If I only had maybe 50 albums or so, I'd wipe everything and start over to try, but I have far more than that and I'm not about to "test" this only for it to be corrupted again. As it is, I have tried, to the best of my ability, to fix a small portion to no avail.
I have cancelled my iTunes match subscription which I've had for many years all, because of this mess now.
One of the most frustrating matters, is that it does not seem to affect everyone in the same way. Some people appear to have zero issues. Those that do, seem to have the same issues, but then many other's have different problems. With that, no one can even pinpoint what the issues are.
I'm looking for a home music server (Cocktail Audio?) now that I can rip my music directly into and then manually transfer from the server to my iPhone and iPad. It may be a hassle, but it's better than not having my music all at once where I want it as it currently is.
Merry Christmas to all of us from, Apple.......