Yes your absolutely right I should have backed it up thankfully I never feel for the iTunes Match cause then I would have lost it . And thankfully there is Google Play , Amazon and several superior services .Thankfully I didn't use iCloud or the apple cloud. I backed all my music onto Amazon and as a safety measure Dropbox and my own cloud ( wdex8 which failed) .
My first desktop over 28years ago was a Macintosh floppy disk as well as my first laptop and smartphone, routers etc all Apple . I Too made excuses for Apples failures . "The next release will fix that problem" I doubt my last computer device will be made by Chinese slaves your reply set me straight. Pompous BS My son wants the new Galaxy I argued with him tomorrow he can pick out anything he wants he not an apple picker your on an apple try spellchecker