Fix Music for people who like to own their music

cyrus_b_uk wrote:

I don't want your subscription service

This is a user-to-user forum. You are not speaking to Apple.

I have my own collection and Apple keeps breaking it.

After getting a new iPhone, the migration once again failed to update, duplicating every song before running out of space. Following recommendations, I wiped the music, and it took a full day to restore, and then it got all the album artwork wrong.

So I deleted the app, and now the thing has wiped my favourite playlist, decades in the making. I'm trying to restore it from time machine, and that isn't working.

If you are not a subscriber to iTunes Match or to Apple Music, there are basically two ways of getting music onto your iPhone:

• Manual synchronization from a master library on a computer, to your iPhone, which replaces all of the music on your iPhone with the new selection from the computer.
• Direct purchase or re-downloading of music from the iTunes Store.

My understanding is that when you upgrade from one iPhone to another, music purchased from any source other the iTunes Store does not transfer. If you want it, you must synchronize the iPhone against a Mac or Windows PC, like you did for the first iPhone. But I could be wrong.

Fix your app.

It's not our app.

cyrus_b_uk wrote:

I'm restoring the music library from time machine and my playlist is still empty?????? I added a new album to it on the 17th December, I have receipts

If the playlist was deleted, Time Machine would have backed up the deletion. You would need to restore from a time before the playlist was deleted (possibly losing other changes made since then) to get the playlist back.