My customized genres get changed back to the iTunes default genre

Hi All,

Following this Post, i managed to fix my problem. Here is how i have proceeded:

1- Turn off Internet connection

2- Remove file "iTunes Music Library.xml" from Media Folder Location (See in your iTunes Preferences) - Place it on the Desktop just in case.

3- Restore a clean copy of file "iTunes Music Library.itl" to Media Folder Location (See in your iTunes Preferences) using Time Machine or another Backup

4- Re-open iTunes

5- Follow instructions given by turingtest2:

turingtest2 wrote:

Go to iTunes > Preferences > Store and turn off

• Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases
• Share details about your library with Apple

On any iOS device go to Settings > Music and turn off

Show All Music

Close and reopen iTunes and/or reset the device and you should see your version of the metadata for each track rather than the original store data.

(Not sure if this also works if iTunes match is in use since I don't use it.)

tt2

Then everything is clean again.

6- You can restart your internet connection.

It worked for me. I am not using iTunesMatch.

The problem seems to come from the Cloud.

I have several problems with iCloud since upgrading to OS X 10.10 from OS X 10.8

Sebastien

iMac (24-inch - Early 2009)

OS X Yosemite 10.10.1

It seems that when those options are enabled iTunes/iOS can download the store metadata before processing what is in your library and even when you have a local copy of the item you get shown the store version's data. Fully disabling those options makes your own changes show.

With iTunes Match on it is even worse. I keep my full iTunes library on one Mac, and the other Macs are reading the library from iCloud. Turning off "iTunes in the Cloud" would defeat the purpose of iTunes Match on the Macs that are using the iCloud library. On the synced Macs the library is a hopeless mess of duplicate covers, wrong artist names, wrong genres, wrong "compilation" settings, and strange cover art.

I know you know, but for the benefit of anyone else with the same issue...

You can report problems via the relevant feedback form, e.g. iTunes Feedback, or sign up for a free Apple Developer Connection account and make use of Apple Bug Reporter. They don't generally talk back, but they do claim to read everything.

tt2

i wa so glad to see posts like this when i went online...this has been INFURIATING me ..i sort my music via genre and, as countless others have said, ill randomly open my itunes to see that certain albums that i purchased on itunes have been kicked back to their original "rock" genre that itunes applies....NOT the genre that i overrode to fit into my library as i want it to be sorted. this is sooooo STUPID that itunes cant solve this. How about, when music is purchased on itunes, there is a bar where u write in what genre you want the music to be catagorized in your library???? i tried a software update, and some of the other fixes i have seen in this and other threads about this matter, but there seems to be no consistent answer.

Until there is some fix provided by itunes, i am goign to try and only purchase music thru amazon and other online music providers (bandcamp) and move them into my itunes, rather than purchasing the music from the istore.

im just offended that the same company charging thousands of dollars for home computers cant fix what would seemingly be a simple bug like this for their customers.

Agree. I've stopped buying iTunes music because as well as the data problems and the fact we've paid for it:

a) we DO NOT OWN IT! If we die or want to give our music to other people we can't, Apple owns it.

b) you also can't download in Lossless (premium quality). Most people have really good systems now and standard iTunes format isn't good enough. If you buy CDs you can import Lossless or you can buy really good ALAC and FLAC format music to download from many sites now.

iTunes isn't the best option for music on the web anymore.

iTunes isn't the best option for music on the web anymore.

Don't mix up the iTunes Store with the iTunes Library. I still like iTunes to organize my growing music library, but I make very sure I am keeping the original music imported from CD or bought elselwhere safe, when I add the music to iTunes, so I do not have to rely on the iTunes store to be able to restore my music library.

It worked!!!! Thank you so much. I have been dealing with this for months and spent untold hours resetting the genre over and over again. I guess I will just have to live with not being able to listen to any of my music on my iPhone or iPad unless I choose to download specific songs. The cloud was a good idea but it is not helpful if it makes life harder.

You're welcome. 🙂

tt2