New purchased/added music not showing up in iTunes music library

Thanks dude. Worked like a charm. Cheers.

Hi everyone-

I think I found a possible fix!

I was encountering the same problem as many of you. I would buy a song on my Mac from the iTunes store and it would not show up in my "Library" in iTunes. It would, however, show up in the "Purchased" section in iTunes. I tried just about everything that everyone said- restarted iTunes, restarted Mac, turned iTunes match on/off, updated iTunes match, etc. and still with no luck. Then I did this and it worked!!

I knew the songs I bought did indeed download and were in my iTunes music folder on my hard drive. So in iTunes I went to

File ---> Add to Library ---> Music ---> iTunes ---> iTunes Media ---> Music ---> Then selected all the songs I just bought that were not showing up and clicked "open".

Boom! The songs I just bought were now in my "Library" in iTunes. Better yet, songs I continued to buy after that automatically showed up in my "Library" just like good ole times! Just to be certain the songs would stick around, I closed out of iTunes are restarted it and the songs were still there.

Hope this helps!

-Kyle

My iTunes Match is off. I mostly just import my own CDs, rather than buying them digitally (I prefer being able to hold what I buy). Been ripping CDs last few days and everything was working fine, until the last album I imported. It's in the recently added list, but not the main playlist. Haven't found any fixes yet... annoying.

Yeah nothing seems to work for me either. What a ridiculous bug.

I do NOT have Match turned on, never have, never will.

Had my iPod Shuffle plugged into my MBA.

Bought two albums from the iTunes store.

Downloaded the songs and verified the files were present in Finder.

Both albums automatically sync'd to the Shuffle (already had the Shuffle set to sync the Artists).

Neither album will show in the iTunes library on my MBA.

Tried every reasonable suggestion in this thread and can't get the albums to show up.

Can't believe this very simple operation is proving so difficult for Apple.

Seems like there are a number of possible ways to fix it. I tried turning off iTunes Match and turning it on again. The song appeared when Match is turned off and stayed there as Match is turned on again.

I hope Apple fixes this quickly. I find the quality of iTunes Match service to be really subpar, not unlike MobileMe last time.

Well I didn't do anything, that I can recall doing, aside from maybe turning my computer off to move it. The music is now showing up in my iTunes.

So, I have a 2011 MBA. I purchased 2 songs and have spent the last hour trying every single idea listed in this thread and nothing has worked so far. Unbelievable that there is a glitch for something this basic. The value of the time I have spent trying to get two songs to show up in my library makes these the most expensive songs I have ever purchased. *****.

Okay, I booted up my laptop this morning and the songs were magically added to my library.

So the lesson here is that if you want to add purchased music to your iTunes library you have to reboot.

Apple really hit it out of the park with this bug. Amazing.

Not sure if this is necessarily the problem for all, but I had purchased a song which also did not come up under artists on my iPhone, but did on songs and if I searched for it. I then realised it was under Various Artists. So I right clicked the track on itunes, get info and unchecked 'part of a compilation' and this worked. May not be the problem for everyone though

Yep that took care of it. Thank!

Purchased songs from itunes, not showing up in songs library. itunes ver 11.0.1. Macbook pro OS 10.7.5.

I have tried almost all suggestions, Apple has obviously closed all these work arounds down, 'cos none work for me; it must be a conspiracy to get us to imatch or ishare or istopbuyingapple. Any other music software recommendations to replace itunes?

Yeah - that did it for me... thanks so much!!! Wow, is it just me or does the new itunes really bite??!!

Having spent/wasted hours, this finally worked. Thanks Jamie. Shame on Apple.

This worked for me:

In iTunes go to File->Devices->Transfer purchases from 'your' iPhone

Yesterday I ordered two songs. They show up nicely both in Purchased and in the music library. Today I bought two other songs and they could not be found in the library. After some research I solved my problem by disable "show purchases in the iTunes cloud" (I have a swedish version of iTunes so I am just guessing what it would be called in English) that can be found in Edit | Preferences | Store.

After disabling that option, the little stupid cloud disappeared for Music and Movies in my library, and the missing files showed up. :-)

I don't have iTunes match and am running iTunes on Windows 8.

Good luck out there - may the cloud be with you.