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

I deleted my iPhone library by not checking the music sync in the settings in iTunes before I synced my iMac to the iPhone. There were a few songs left on the phone, but I deleted them in the phone settings. I synced my entire music library back to my phone, but that was not the end of it. My phone is disconnected from my computer, but it is still "repopulating " my music library on the phone. Explain that one! As I type, the number of songs in each Genre is slowly increasing to complete the process. That's a mystery to me. I just hope all of my songs will be there when this is over. What a nightmare! Never again will I knowingly allow a third party to tamper with my music library.

My Albums, My holiday clips (the ones u stream to Apple tv)  ALL F***** GONE.

I mean for crying out loud I know I should have backups (and i dont) but is this for real?

johnnyrockedit. My library seems ok. I have not seen any mangling of the local iTunes library yet. for analyst purpose - I was/still am a itunes match customer, I did NOT join apple music (not my thing at all). I just wanted to continue with match using what I own as I have done for a few years. When I installed iTunes 12.2 I saw the iTunes cloud library was enabled/on by default but Apple music was not on. as at now I see no issues. That's not to say I won't do and as such I have all backed up. The only thing I worry about, if the new iTunes does the same as before, after a period of 7 days match always does an update on its own and sends info to apple and awaits a results delivery from apple. Unfortunately that always happened and will attempt to run every time one launches iTunes until it completes this. I wonder if new iTunes will do same in a few days and whether this cycle will be a catalyst for corruption. My gut feeling is no, my sense is that joining Apple music is the trigger as opposed to being a match only customer. It seems every problem reported is from users who have joined/trialled apple music

Didnt join either Apple Music or Match and the only thing I have left is the music I bought from Apple. total wipeout of everything else

My holiday/family clippppssss FFS

OK thank you. Scuppers that theory then. Guess I've been fortunate. Backup on standby just in case. Apple have let us down here, I hope they are taking this seriously. The glitches are getting reasonable coverage on various sites so hopefully they will address it

Hey, thanks so much for your help/response/post!!! I'm currently on HOLD with Apple Support.. have a feeling I'm just going to hang up on them, they don't understand the extent of my problem...

I want to ask you, will this fix the issue in Apple Music on my iOS devices as well? Accepting iCloud Music Library on my desktop just jacked up my Apple Music Playlists EVERYWHERE!!!!! :-(

They better get their act together, I've been a premium user with Spotify for over 2 years and I've never had my Playlists corrupted. iTunes is the death of Apple!

How are they going to address having deleted clips of a lot of my families events? Its not a glitch that is recoverable its a Forever Wipeout

Is it gone from your library and the local storage spot? Check your folders. I'm curious if it's still intact but apple just isn't reading it. as of now, apple isn't recognizing a fourth of my library's album art (Minor but still hours of work)

All seems normal now after restoring my iTunes library with a backup through Time Machine, deleting music from all portables and then resyncing them. At least it looks that way. Only playing a lot of music will tell. I mean isn't that why we use all this stuff anyway....to hear all the music we love the way we want it and when? I don't know about everyone else, but I'm tired of spending all this time dealing with tech issues. I'm here to listen to and discover music!!!!! I'll keep ya posted.

Johnnyrockedit

Good lord I was having a meltdown, everything seems to be there in the folders as you so suggested. Itunes is simply not recognising any of my albums or home movies. Why didnt I do this sooner

verifying and Backing up now...!

Tks

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.