WARNING: iCloud Music Library just destroyed my Mac's iTunes Library

Amen! I've spent years picking my artwork and cleaning up metadata. I couldn't believe it was all gone. All back now.

THANK YOU!

20,000 song library is so jacked up. Have 5+ same name artists on Apple TV + iPhone. Different artists combined into one album........ Yuck. How could this not be checked during testing..... Brand new Macbook Pro, Brand new Apple TV, old 4S iPhone..... Thinking they would have seen this coming and fixed before letting the masses destroy years of prep. Have all on External Drive, just want to rock out on my Bday today and have to scroll through 10 of the same artists. Where was documentation on this? Is iCloud Library free?? I bought match so I could have my library on my telephone wherever I go, not so I can download songs where ever I go. I guess 25 bucks isn't much wasted if it is free, but now I have hours of work in front of me. Where do you mention this change on Software Update??? I don't evan remember hitting OK to turn on iCloud Music Library, but mb I did.

Same **** here...

Apple is trying again pushing me to use new covers, exchanging things without any request after using i**** library.

Apple, did you realized that there are DIFFERENT covers all over the world for similar CDs?

Similar issue like my change to iTunes match.

Bad playlist managing tools.

Mixture of bought and "leased" music.

Your worst performance since years. ➖

Hello spotify.✅

@tnorris

I have it turned on on my iPhone with no issues there. Just MAKE SURE YOU DON'T TURN IT ON IN ITUNES. And if you find that it is on, turn it off ASAP. I had no issue with iTunes even though my iPhone was connected to the iCloud music library UNTIL I turned it on / updated iTunes. Stay away from any iTunes updates until this is fixed, I say.

Also, do you have iTunes match? That seems to be a big part of the problem. :/

ntomallen,

thanks for the reply. I DO have itunes match but it's been disabled for 11 months and about to expire. I subscribed to it almost a year ago, and quickly disabled it when I experienced all sorts of issues similar to what's being reported now with APM's icloud library. That experience is what made me thing twice about activating ICL when presented in itunes 12.2.

I've got the same issue. I sorted out all my album artwork ages ago after iTunes match botched it. Now it's done it again. Jimi Hendrix has inexplicably become a white man, a Metallica album cover is now replaced by 'Boris Yoffe' whoever the **** he is? And many have the right artist but the wrong album cover.

If apple thought the maps saga was embarrassing, then this is catastrophic by comparison!

You should be okay if you just stay on your phone. I had no issues until I updated iTunes. Even now, I created a brand new iTunes library and have that connected to APM, and it works great.

I'm having the same problem

I'M OVER APPLE MUSIC.....back to Spotify!

So... does this mean you will not be using Apple Music, or will you use Apple Music and turn off Icloud music library on all devices?

How do i do this on mac I'm struggling to get the folder open and change the file?

Well I had the same issues as mentioned here, however I wasn't too concerned and decided to rebuild my library. (I've been a long time Rdio user so havent added much to iTunes in recent years.)

I guessed the best way would be to go through and add any albums directly from the iTunes Music library. This started working very nicely and everything seems nice and clean. Then I thought I'd add my albums from iTunes that are not available within the Apple Music library, namely 'The Beatles' So I added every Beatles album from my original library to me new fresh Apple Music library. Everything seems great. Checked on my phone and everything was syncing over. However.... it seems to have synced some of the tracks with tracks that available ARE available within Apple Music. For example, the album Please Please Me has 'matched' the track P.S. I love you with the the one from the 'Highlights of Rock'n'Roll' album. Now although this is technically the correct song, the artwork etc is all wrong.

Seems to me like they haven't learnt anything from iTunes Match. If only they could give you the option of choosing which track it should match when it finds multiple versions, this would be a good workaround.

As theres no real progress since iTunes match, it leaves me with little doubt that it will change. Shame, as I was so excited to finally have a solution to get a streaming library nicely integrated with my albums that are not available to stream, but I think that was too much to ask for! Guess I might be sticking with Rdio.

Yeah, well, I made the mistake of opening my library again after closing it so it updated the .itl file and screwed my entire library up. 14,000+ songs and years of collecting all down the drain in the matter of minutes, if not seconds. Most of which I had on CD's from when I was a teenager and now don't have those CD's anymore. I am beyond furious and I literally want to destroy all of my Apple products at the moment. I am not going through my library, song by song, trying to save as much of it as I can. Metadata from THOUSANDS of my songs have been annihilated and hijacked. Not too mention I just found out about the DRM bs.

Apple really screwed up this time. I don't know what else to do, if there even is any way to salvage my library. However, my future dedication to Apple products will depend on how they handle this situation.

And to think...I was going to do my Time Machine backup a couple of days ago and I completely forgot about it.

So roll back a few days to a time before the library was messed up.

Thanks!!

So the only issue I have is sporadic server disconnects on iTunes on my Mac and PC, which is fixable, and is 100% fine on my phone. Just letting y'all know everyone!