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

I may only have 213 songs, but it still made me mad when iCloud music library changed all of my music's albums and deleted my playlists. Luckily I didn't update iTunes immediately, so i was able to stop the corruption that apple has started. I would love to pay apple ten dollars a month for their apple music services, but not if it destroys my music, much less the poor people with 13,000 songs and years of effort and organization.

It is going to take me ages to restore my library as it was before but Im so happy I haven't lost my clips and music that I couldn't care less!

Nothing like the impact of staring at a BLANC Itunes!

BTW Mobile applications from my iphone also not recognised, when I sync(d) my Iphone just now it transferred all my apps, 200 of them, as if I had never done so before.

Using pieces from the end of this post, I was able to return My Music and Playlists on my iMac and on my iPhone 5S.

I'll share what I did to turn off Apple Music and iCloud Music Library and regain control over iTunes on my iPhone 5S:

I started with syncing my iPhone 5S to my iMac (iTunes) via USB not WiFi. Once it was synced, I opened preferences in iTunes and turning off anything that had to do with Apple Music. I did the same thing with my iPhone 5S: Settings ->Music->then turned off Show Apple Music and iCloud Music Library. Once I completed these steps, I synced my iPhone again and thankfully, all my playlists and music returned to iTunes in my iPhone.

I do not like the new iTunes interface at all. I am not a fan of Apple Music. Since the new Music service changes the iTunes library on my iPhone 5S, I will not be using Apple's music streaming service. Don't mess with my iTunes, Apple!

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/01/apple-music-users-complain-icloud-musi c-library-deletes-renames-itunes-content

The fix did not work for me... Now I have TV shows that are in the music folder and I can not change them back to TV Show mode. If I get info the option only offers audio formats and no video formats.

Another thing you will discover in iOS 8.4, if you haven't already, is it is very difficult to shuffle an artist's songs and impossible for a genre. Instead of making the functionality of iOS better, they have made it harder. I have another app that I use that mirrors iTunes and let's you play songs anyway you want and EQ them in real time. Much better. I don't know what the gurus are thinking.

I sense that what it's doing is causing iTunes to not recognize the files. its something w the apple music subscription and cloud service as my files seem to be okay (I don't use cloud and didnt subscribe to apple music). I'm going to give my analyst a call again and discuss as my artwork is a disaster.

I'm in the same boat... just lost many songs here😕

IF YOU TURNED ON ICML ON YOUR PHONE AND NOT YOUR COMPUTER AND LOST MUSIC ON YOUR PHONE, HERE'S A SOLUTION

My problem occurred on the same lines, today I installed the new iTunes, and updates my phone 2 days ago.

The update on my phone turned on iCloud Music Library but when I turned on iTunes today I was rather skeptical about the iCloud Music Library question and said no. When my phone synced with my iTunes, the whole library on my phone disappeared including my playlists and I was so mad because it was years of built up playlists. I was so mad I almost broke my Mac in half.

Sadly I realized Apple would be too selfish to understand that. So I thought out, if iCloud music library is on my phone but not on my computer, everything is still on my computer. I turned it off on my phone, restarted it and restarted iTunes and then synced the phone again and this time the option to sync came back to the old style sync option. I put my playlists back.

I'm pretty ****** that the songs I added with Apple music are gone from my playlists but this really ****** up my day. I think its absolutely ridiculous.

i encountered the same issue, along with other issues.i am very dissapointed in apple music. Back to Spotify.

same thing happened to me. entire itunes library wiped out completely. and it was a pretty simple fix but is still not a nice thing to see after you perform an update. not a good thing to feel when you have so much music and have groomed it and been selective to one's tastes. good going apple. restoring the itunes library did the trick though. still, should not have to go through that.

Thank you!!!

Just saved me from breaking down in anger and fraustration with itunes!!! Really wish they would implement updates without changing and messing everything up.

• used iTunesMatch in the past
• apple music on trial (one account)
• iCloud music library on
• disaster...

Here is the problem that may be causing Apple to impose wrong CD Artwork over songs:

On my iPhone I have 3 songs called "Surrender" - 2 from Dash Berlin and one from Steps that is actually called "I Surrender". Yet when I play an Armin Van Burren song "I Surrender' from the For You tab it shows that I already have this song on my iPhone or iTunes - and this is completely wrong!

This shows that Apple does not check all the relevant fields in metadata - actually not even the basic fields like Artist...

and the wrong icon showing that I supposedly have this song on my iPhone

OK, I now have my iTunes library on my MacBook restored to pre-'Music' normality. My Music app on my phone still has the playlists messed up.

So what I need to know is this: if I try to sync now, what will happen? Will the correct iTunes library overwrite the messed up phone, or vice versa?

i'd rather not have to restore the phone from back up, and I would quite like to keep the new Music app on my phone (but with iCloud library turned off), but I don't want to risk the phone sync / iTunes update destroying my playlists like it did yesterday!

H I tried your workaround. The artwork that was removed from purchased music is still blank and missing. What doesn't make sense is it's not missing like when you just have the musical notes it's just a grey box.