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

thats cool man. glad it worked for you despite a huge hassle that should not be happening, much less paying for it in the end. Did you check the tracks to see if they were DRM ? Curious to know. Track/Get Info/Fairplay if marked 2 then they were replaced with DRM tracks.

Hi jctez,

Most of the tracks (there is a mix of mp3 and AAC files) now are "matched" or "uploaded" and have the iCloud status "Apple music" but don't have "FairPlay 2" marked. The tracks which I added from iTunes Music are "Apple Music AAC audio files" and do have "FairPlay 2" marked.

So as long as you don't delete local tracks I don't think there should be any issues with DRM.

Of course when you delete local tracks from your mac and then download those again tracks from apple music you'll end up with drm protected tracks. Seems logical to me. If you want to re-download them drm-free i guess you should get iTunes match.

I only have albums ripped from CD so i can't say what it does to music purchased from the iTunes store....

Thank you for posting this - i have just over 150,000 songs and this really messed up my library. So frustrating. Do we know who to write to in apple over this?

As a choreographe and dancer I have a number of special playlists as well as my personal lists. Now I have a big much of play lists that list one track but play another.

This his has completely trashed my library not to mention caused a huge amount of turmoil in classes and work sessions.

Thank hank you very much Apple for completely dicking up my work!

TIme to start cleaning up your mess. No way in the world I'll be using iTunes Music or Match, ever!

Let's keep this thread going, everybody, until we come up with some solutions. Personally I don't think you'll ever be able to trust a Cloud service to match and upload your music libraries. I would only deal with a service that would allow me to upload my music the way I want. There are just too many problems associated with trusting a Cloud service to tamper with your music library. You must stay in total control of your hard earned and edited music libraries. Otherwise, you are just looking for trouble.

IT seems that turning off iTunes Music on my iPhone has brought things back to where they need to be on my device...at the expense of my playlists 😟

And it is OK.

DON'T TOUCH .itl (etc.) FILES! Do not be a pc-windows-like ******. Do not manipulate on iTunes preferences files.

To BRING EVERYTHING BACK just use OPTIONS IN USER INTERFACE OF APPS (in iOS and iTunes) to disable:

1. iCloud Music Library
2. Apple Music

on every device and in iTunes on computer(s). No easier and simplier way.

You will have the old way on iOS Music (+Radio only from new ads) and in iTunes on computer.

My music was "backed up" to two different computers, which were running two iTunes in addition to iPhone and iPad, so now my music and backup music is all synchronized to being twice as mangled as it would be?

...yay!

So this has happened to me as well and I'm just noticing. My oldest backup in Time Machine was July 9 and I went back to that .itl and my stuff is still f'd up. Even worse, as I play stuff it changes in front of my eyes! Watch this video I made:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qEHBcEx4a-8

So am I just screwed?

As I start this post while streaming one of my all time favorite albums, Jimmy Smith's "Organ Grinder Swing", I'm looking back on my experience with Apple Music over the past month and deciding what I like about it. Here goes.

I absolutely love the "New" section because I can stream pretty much anything I want just like this Jimmy Smith album, and the quality is outstanding. I'm pulling up albums that I remember from long ago, and boy do they sound great. It's great fun too!

I love "For You" as well because the recommendations are spot on for me, and I occasionally find something new. It is a treasure trove of music that I really like.

I still find the iCloud to be a problem, but I have pretty much decided to avoid it at this point. Unless I can control the music that is potentially being matched from my own computer, I am just not willing to trust my carefully edited, lifetime music collection to anybody's cloud. As I usually purchase and download the music I really like anyway, I'll just keep doing that and syncing it with my 128 Gb iPhone 6 Plus until things change.

So, at this point, I have made my peace with Apple Music.

So this has happened to me as well and I'm just noticing. My oldest backup in Time Machine was July 9 and I went back to that .itl and my stuff is still f'd up. Even worse, as I play stuff it changes in front of my eyes! Watch this video I made:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qEHBcEx4a-8

So am I just screwed?

Thanks a lot Zackadelic!!!!

It worked for me!

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/08/06/apple-music-11-million-users/

Cue notes Apple is "releasing updates as fast as we can" to address bugs and other issues with Apple Music amid duplication and mislabeling complaints.

I loled 😀

How many of those 11 million people have a destroyed iTunes library now and don't even know it? (11 million is a relatively small number, considering that it is for free.)

If you sign up for Apple Musicon your iPhone, there is a prompt about whether to enable Apple Music iCloudLibrary. Even if you select NO, it will enable it by default, and your library will be toast. After two hours on the phone with support (who confirmed this is set by default), I restored to a June 29 backup of my iTunes Library.itlfile after disabling everything to do with Apple Music on both my Mac and iPhone to restore my own artwork and songs. I will not go anywhere near Apple Music again.

Without a backup prior to turning on Apple Music, unfortunately, yes...