iTunes 12.2 & Apple Music subscription made almost all tags corrupt

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iTunes 12.2 & Apple Music subscription made almost all tags corrupt

Just updated to iTunes 12.2, subscribed to Apple Music and after syncing my library with iCloud it broke almost all my tags in library. Now my list of artists has a lot of duplicates, but in fact these are different artists, just somehow they were renamed. Same goes for songs, they have incorrect titles taken from other songs, etc, etc, etc. So, how do I revert this back to normal state?

That's how it looks like:

iTunes-OTHER, Windows 8, Version 12.2

Posted on Jul 3, 2015 4:30 AM

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Limnos

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Jul 3, 2015 6:21 AM in response to CyberAP

ASC user turingtest2 help document: Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6561

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Jul 3, 2015 1:38 PM in response to Limnos

I thought this helped, but actually iTunes also removed the files from my media library. So now I just have correct tags and lots of missing files.

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Limnos

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Jul 3, 2015 2:21 PM in response to CyberAP

Missing files, ah, that's where the backup comes in handy.

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Jul 3, 2015 2:30 PM in response to Limnos

I have some of original files, will try to use file recovery software, that might help.

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Jul 3, 2015 3:20 PM in response to CyberAP

It's kind of funny. iTunes kept all the files actually, but now they are spread across all my library, all with wrong names and empty tags. So now I have something like that in folders:

I would really appreciate if someone tells a quick way to fix that. For now the only option I have is to listen to each corrupt track and identify what is it.

There are about 2900 corrupt tracks.

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