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Oct 12, 2013 2:01 PM in response to ajbasslerby LushLitch,I had the same problem. I have read all of this thread. I had exactly the same experience. I believe that iTunes match does not honor music you rip from CD's and just deletes it.
I think it's because ripping music, even for your own use is actualy not proper copyright use. But still! I think it ought to come with a warning as I also had about three thousand songs that are lost from old cd's that I threw away as I trusted apple. Yes. I can go back to my old back up and see what is there but geez!
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Oct 12, 2013 3:53 PM in response to Charliechipsby natmac,It DOES happen. After doing another "match" on iTunes Match, some of the songs my ripped CDs deleted. There was a grey shadow that the song had been there at one point, but the song was missig from the path. And I know that it was there at one point in the last month because I ripped the whole CD. I am not computer illiterate, and yes, this bug does affect files.
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Oct 21, 2013 7:45 AM in response to natmacby Jamesot,I joined Itunes match last week and low and behold all my ripped cds that were in my library have been deleted. The only music available to be played are my Itunes store purchases. Thats only 835 songs from a library of 7205 songs. the whole lot have been deleted form my HDD. Does anybopdy know if there is anyway to recover the library??
Cheers
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Mar 26, 2014 10:29 PM in response to ajbasslerby Phototod0815,I have the same problem. Signed up for match and all of my ripped music and music that I had purchased using a different account all dissappeared from my iPhone. Lost over 500 songs. Very upset.
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Apr 23, 2014 10:19 AM in response to ajbasslerby Berad2003,I actually found this post in my search for what happened to my library and how to get it back. I had the same thing happen to me. I had all of my music in a DropBox folder on my computer. That folder was a "backup" of my music. It had music that I ripped from CDs years ago (I learned after my first computer crashed with all my music that I need to have a backup stored elsewhere-hence DropBox) as well as downloaded music from iTunes that I'd purchased. I turned on iTunes Match on my MacBook Pro, A few weeks later, my newly purchased Mac Mini arrived. I installed DropBox and went to download my music from my music folder on DropBox because I was going to use my Mac Mini to store my media locally instead of my MacBook Pro. When I accessed my Music folder on DropBox, the folder was empty! I checked in the trash and everything and my music was nowhere. Not only that but a BUNCH of my songs are mismatched/have wrong meta data/have single albums split into 2 or 3 (with only a few songs on each). I want to get rid of iTunes Match and start over (cause I only use iTunes for new music purchases-I just want my previously ripped music back) but I can't.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one having the music deletion issue. I don't expect an answer or resolution, just wanted to add my "me too!" so all the people who've commented and said it can't happen can see that it actually does.
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Apr 23, 2014 12:38 PM in response to Berad2003by LushLitch,OMG It's amazing. But yours is worse because your dropbox got deleted too. I am going to go to Genius bar and I am going to bring this post with me to show them. I found an old computer--old G4 laptop with cracked screen that I just stored and forgot about-- and I have tons of music from that one on thumb drive. But I think I will follow your advice and turn off iTunes Match first. Close the portole to the black hole!
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Apr 23, 2014 12:49 PM in response to LushLitchby Berad2003,Luckily I was overly paranoid about losing all that music after it happened to me years ago and also had my DropBox folder uploading my music to my Google Music acount so I'm currently re-downloading the music to my computer from there - but I've bought some music on iTunes since then so I will have to compare and see what's still not showing up and re-download from iTunes.
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Apr 23, 2014 1:06 PM in response to Berad2003by LushLitch,Oh that's smart. I don't even have a google music account. I need to set that up. Right now. I have carbonite now. And drop box back ups.
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Apr 30, 2014 5:57 PM in response to ajbasslerby joshuad3,i have a similar predicament but i don't use match. i simply updated itunes and all of my music, except for the music i purchased from itunes was gone (everything that i ripped). the folders are still actually still on the hard drive but they're all empty.
it's a shame; as if itunes treats music you didn't purchase from them as pirated. fortunately, i have all the actual cd's as i still like to listen to cds. however, they shouldn't delete any item from my hard drive. while i don't know that they did, how do you explain that my itunes-purchased music is still available?
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May 12, 2014 10:08 AM in response to ajbasslerby Elkman,Hi,
I have exactly the same problem.
I ripped all my music to a usb HDD and have used with no problems for a couple of weeks.
I play music via remote on an ipad through a Mac Mini. I don't have Itunes Match switched on.
For some reason selected songs would not play through Remote on the Ipad.
I have looked at the library on the Mac Mini and see that the files cannot be located.
On examining the HDD i see that the files have actually disappeared.
Nobody has touched or accessed the Mac Mini other than via the Remote App on the Ipad.
So why have the files gone?
Where have they gone?
Is this a problem with Apple?
Someone please help. Fortunately i have my music library backed up on a Windows computer in Flac so can do a batch conversion again but it don't want to be faced with this probelm again.
Regards,
Nick
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May 12, 2014 10:13 AM in response to ajbasslerby Elkman,I should also say that i have the console running if that will provide any clues as to what has happened although i cannot interpret the date.
Regards,
Nick
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May 12, 2014 10:52 AM in response to ajbasslerby Elkman,A further update.
It looks as though itunes or some other part of Apple system decided to move 768 music files to .Trashes on the external hard drive...Why?
Regards,
Nick
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Jul 17, 2014 9:45 PM in response to Elkmanby fdiesel,How do we move the music back from the .Trashes folder into a safe place?
I am a composer so many hundreds (thousands?) of my music files are versions of my own compositions, not ripped from commercial CDs. Of course some of them are released and sold on the iTunes store, but the versions I had on the hard drive were drafts, sketches, versions saved in various file formats and encoding for different purposes (promotional, clips, etc.)
I've just dragged a bunch to a playlist to burn to CD and was messaged that I can't burn music to CD if it isn't on my hard drive... why wasn't it on my hard drive? It was there before I turned on Match!
I may need to use Time Machine backups to get my music back... I hope I will find it all....
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Jul 17, 2014 10:01 PM in response to fdieselby fdiesel,BTW I'm using iTunes 10.7 (21) on one computer.
I also have a laptop which contains many versions of my songs as well (duplicates or near duplicates or renamed or re-tagged files)..
I may have had a misunderstanding about the way the system works and how to use it. I am still new to Match.
It looks like I dragged in a file -- which had been copied to iCloud from the laptop -- to the playlist I meant to burn via the desktop CD drive... THAT file wasn't on the desktop ...a dupe of that WAV with a slightly different filename was on the desktop, outside the iTunes Music folder.
So that message when burning the CD was most likely correct... and I've similar "oops, I do have a copy of that -- it wasn't deleted" moments as I examine things closer.
Some people seem to have things actually deleted.
But for some of us finding this thread, we might just need to look more closely at how our music was saved and named before Match, to make sense of our newly combined collection.
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Aug 7, 2014 4:07 PM in response to ajbasslerby kpa272,I've had things deleted from my hard drive as well. And I've just noticed those tracks were all from burned copies of CDs. Prior to getting rid of the originals, I made copies to make sure I had backup, then imported them as Apple Lossless. Then after activating Match, all of those ALAC files were deleted and replaced by 256kpb versions from the iTunes store.