iTunes Match Reverted ENTIRE Library Back Four Months!

This same thing happended this past Christmas.

in January of 2012 I got iTunes Match, wasnt happy with it, and got rid of it.

During December of 2012 I heard the new iTunes Match was better, so I started the process of uploading my music to the cloud, but when it did this it started to revert my library to how it was almost a year ago! Any edits, playlists, just ANY CHANGE in general all back to January 2012.

I managed to restore my previous library from a backup I had made right before I turned on iTunes Match. So I turned off iTunes Match, and I will NEVER turn it on again....

But now in the past month or so when I click on certain songs in my library iTunes will automatically change the info to how it was back in January 2012. This is really frustrating, as any time I click on a song it may change, and become part of a different album, or get rid of artwork.

Any ideas of how to stop this, I dont want to have to manually have to edit each track after I click it to maintain the way Ive organized it.

Apple, I have always been an iTunes lover, but after iTunes 11 getting rid of album art list view and this, I am not happy.

Please help.

Hi,

If you have a time machine back up, use this to restore your iTunes library .itl file. Use the one done before you signed back into match.

Your library should be restored. If you decide to use match, I suggest that you update genius first.

With match turned off you can now manually sync your iPhone.

Jim

Thanks, but I did that after the fact and recovered my pre-Match library.

And everything was as it should be, but now when I click particular tracks their info (artists, comments, albums, etc) will automatically change back to how they were a year ago....

EX: pre-click -> The Beatles - Fixing a Hole - Track 5 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1967

post-click -> Beatles - Fixing a Hole - Unknown Album - 2010

I've consolidated my library, and that didnt work. My library at this moment is as it should be, but if I want to go browse through and listen to music it will randomly change and therefore unorganizing my music.

Any ideas of what this is and why its doing this?

And most importantly, HOW TO STOP IT?!?!

Please 🙂

Hi,

How did you make the changes to the files?

Jim

I can easily edit any file like one normally would by right clicking and selecting "Get Info", which I have to do constantly to keep the tracks properly titled and organized.

Basically if I dont click or listen to anything my library would be perfect, but if I start listening to songs, as soon as I double click them to play their info changes.

Once I fix them though, they stay fixed, but I have like 7000+ songs, that could take forever.....