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

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iSRS wrote:

Here is a super simple fix. I just had this happen to me. Just bought two songs and they didn't appear in my Music library, but were in the iTunes folder on my iMac, as well as the Purchased playlist.

In the playlist, right click, convert to AAC format (basically making a copy).

Then go to Music, and search for it, and there are now two versions. The "Purchased" version and a "Waiting" version.

Deleted the "Waiting" versions, and the originals stayed.

Why do I have to spend money for them to keep my music purchase history? Why can't they just be awesome like Amazon... smh. This is ridiculous. I have the same issue and I'm not going to spend 25 bucks to get my music back. Might as well get it all with someone who keeps track of my purchases and lets me re-download it from the main sight. Goodbye apple.

you don't. Anything you buy in iTunes is available as iTunes in the iCloud. iTunes Match (the $25/year charge) is for your ripped music. It will allow you to match them to iTunes, and have those available as the iTunes format (256 AAC) on all your devices. If you only want what you bought from iTunes? No charge.

That's a PC-answer to a Mac-question. Not useful for Mac OS-users.

Unclefester85710 wrote:

This has been the only thing to work for me.

-Create a new folder and name it after the band/artist you are trying to add to your itunes library.

-This will be your artist folder

-Go inside the artist folder and create a new folder. Name it after the band/artist's album you

are trying to add to your itunes library.

-This will be the band/artist's album folder.

-If your band/artist has another album you would create a new folder for that album inside that

band/artist's folder.

-Inside the album folder, drag and drop all the songs associated with that album and album art if necessary.

-When your done take your artist's folder and move it to libraries/music/itunes/itunes media/music

-Open itunes

-Inside itunes, click file (upper left hand corner) and select Add Folder to Library...

-This will bring up a window where you can navigate your way to libraries/music/itunes/itunes media/music

-Inside libraries/music/itunes/itunes media/music you should see the folder you made.

-Highlight that folder and click select folder.

That should be it

I prefer windows media but, strangely, I cant get windows media to see music purchased from itunes. Only music that I have ripped from my personal disk library. Hmmm.... I wonder why??

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I just had this issue of purchasing songs on one computer but they didn't show on my other. I was logged in so they showed they were purchased but didn't show up anywhere else, including in my purchases tab in iTunes.

When I clicked on my account (my name on the top right) I clicked on family purchases and everything showed up there and I was able to download them. Hope this helps

My concern with this solution is that while it may solve the problem initially described here — "I've added a new album of mp3s into my iTunes Library directory hierarchy, but the album is not showing up in the iTunes user interface" — the solution also has additional side-effects which artfromaz did not mention in his/her post, and which, I suspect, many users are not researching.

I am having the same issue, and I'm currently using iTunes 12.1.0.50 on OS X 10.10.2, but when I go under the "Store" menu and see the option to "Turn On iTunes Match", I have to wonder what is "iTunes Match"?, because it sounds like it is (or would be) more than simply a mechanism to update my iTunes UI whenever I add files into my iTunes Library directory hierarchy.

So I slide over a couple of menus, to the "Help" menu in iTunes, and I type in "iTunes Match", and I get some results. The first "Help Topic" result (which is after the "Menu Items" results) is entitled "Use iTunes Match to access all your music anytime, anywhere". I click on it, of course, so that I may read more about what the effects of turning on iTunes Match might be. This is what the top of the Help article describes:

iTunes Match is a service that safely stores all your music in iCloud—even songs imported from CDs or not purchased in the iTunes Store—and makes it available on up to 10 of your devices and computers. With iTunes Match, you have access to your complete iTunes music library at any time.

To use iTunes Match, you have to subscribe to it using your Apple ID, and turn it on on all the computers and devices where you want to use it. If you don’t have an Apple ID, you can create one during setup.

If you subscribe to iTunes Match, iTunes Radio is ad-free.

Once one has digested what the iTunes Match service is, then it becomes clear that the suggested "solution" to the originally-stated problem cannot be the correct solution. It might somehow have a side-effect of updating the library list in the UI, but that is not its primary function. For myself, if I were to turn on iTunes Match, then (at least based on the Help description) my 120G library of mp3s is going to suddenly want to update itself to iCloud, where I have 5G of free storage. Once the update was complete, would that then mean I would be paying 115G of iCloud storage space per month? And that doesn't even address the amount of time and bandwidth it would take to perform the initial moving of that 120G of data into iCloud.

There has to be a better solution, a more direct/intended solution... I'm going to try the following, which was already also suggested here:

1. Quit iTunes.
2. Delete the "${HOME}/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl" file.
3. Restart iTunes, which will allow the just-deleted file to be rebuilt, which will then pick up the newly-added files/albums.

If that's the solution which Apple intends to solve this issue, I'll say it seems rather clunky.

This was far and away the best solution I found because it worked. I think this nailed the hub of the problem that people have been having as some others seem to be giving solutions for slightly different issues. If I had followed what others had done, I could have reset my phone, set up a whole new library and a whole host of large resolutions which wouldn't have solved my situation. I just did what was advised here and found all the songs that I was looking for. If you don't want to download the whole lot then just click on the cloud in the top right corner and it will download and there it is in the ibrary

None of the above worked for me.

I purchased new music on my iPhone, typically all authorized computers / devices would then update. Not so with this purchase.

First, I did not know that on my iPhone I had to make sure to download them so that they would not play over the internet / data. To me this is yet another way to suck data for those of us who have to pay we look for other solutions. Downloaded the new items so that they would play.

Still my computers were not picking up the new purchases. I tried everything.

In an effort to try yet something else, I connected by iPhone and chose to backup manually first. I was then asked if I wanted to transfer new music...ding ding ding ding...that was the ticket. Then all my computers via homeshare synced.

What worked for me was:

1. Search for the email receipt of my missing purchases

2. Complain to support about missing tracks / downloads

3. Get an automatic message telling me my download links have been re-generated

4. Go to top left menu > Itunes Store > View Account

5. Push the "Download all" button

Ta daaaa! 🙂

Big thank. It partially helps. at last i was able to download purchases

I have about 60Gb in Music purchased, but it does not show up on my iPod nor my iPad nor my iPhone.

Some of the music shows up in my Music on iTunes on my Macbook, but not on any of the other devises, but when I go to Purchased on iTunes store none of my purchases are there. I've paid for those songs, but can no longer download them.

I can also not download/play them on any of my devices.

A huge amount of money wasted and no support at all from Apple

I purchased an album a long time ago, went to my itunes recently and it was missing from the local library and my purchased songs.

The workaround I found was going to playlists, right clicking a track that was missing and then clicking to play the track. Then itunes asked to find a location for the track, then I clicked cancel and the option to make the track available offline appeared next to the track in the playlist. What a hassle...

Anyway, I had to do this for every track in the album so it was a pain in the ***, but got it down. That means this solution won't be great for people missing hundreds upon hundreds of songs.

Thank you, This worked. Right as i clicked "unhide" it automatically download on the other devices. Old/good albums were hiden

A QUICK FIX! On any iPhone Model with the latest update!

Steps:

1. Go to the iTunes Store on your iPhone

2. Search the Album or Song Name (it should show the price of the song or album)

3. Tap on the price and buy it (DO NOT GO INTO THE SONG SIMPLY TAP THE PRICE AND BUY)

4. You will get a pop up saying the song is already purchased and an option to re download for free.

5. ENJOY!

I was scared to purchase the song again but then I got the pop up to download since it's already purchased !

Hope this helps someone! Tell me if it did because it worked for me 🙂