Songs disappear from my playlist

I have been dealing with this issue for over a year. I don't use the Cloud music service, but occasionally download tracks from the iTunes store. When I put purchased tracks in a playlist on my iPhone, or on my computer in iTunes, they stick around for awhile and then vanish. For example, I recently purchased three separate albums and created a tracklist combining them all. After a few hours, the trackless only contains one album, and not the others. This is extremely annoying! The only way around it for me is to burn the tracks onto a cd and then re-import them. I shouldn't have to do this!

I'm pretty sure I figured out how to fix it. I was having this problem a bunch, and at first I though my it was just a bug, but it still hasn't been fixed. I discovered that the problem is caused when you don't have the song in your icloud music library, so it can't sync with any other device. Turns out, if you have a decent amount of songs on your device, only about half of them go to your iCloud music library. But, if you go on the playlist and hit edit, then turn off shared playlist, then it seems to keep whatever songs you throw on it afterwards. That fixed it for me, at least.

Thank you! Thank you! You helped me save the day for my daughter. She did exactly what you said to do and all her music reappeared. She was so happy as previously doing an update from an old iphone to a new, and following their directions, she lost 10,000 pictures and all her music. Apple could not fix that problem. So thank you. It could have been a sad day for her.

Hello every time I upgrade to a NEW IOS , my songs disappear ! , and I have to press the cloud with the downward arrow for every artist all over again , or my songs get blocked. Just because I upgrade to a new ios, why ?, should I have to go through the pain of re downloading all songs all over again? This has been happening for multiple generations of iPhone .Selecting manually manage music, should not mean the stuff that you have on your phone should disappear all together? I have a feeling they are doing this to pressure people to just subscribe to Apple Music.

Some marketing ******* thought, " Ok, just make people download form the cloud over and over again for songs they own, that way they see how great and easy Apple Music is! " Then they will all subscribe.Making people lose their music on a firmware download is something that a very weak crappy company does, not something that Apple does. Heck , if Microsoft did this it would be all over the tech blogs. Apple has not improved anything since steve jobs died.

1. Spotlight search and indexing is terrible, you can't search any file by wildcard extension . IE , *.ppt, *.doc, *.docx, *.xls , would give you every spreadsheet etc. there is on windows, it doesn't on a Mac. I mean search for "document" in Finder does not cut it. People should not have to download third party software for search.

2. Iphone is not a joy to use anymore, especially with a big issues like disappearing music. This should never happen on a product like this.

Apple is acting like Microsoft of the 90's . It thinks its invincible.

Same here with 12.4.0.119,

last backup from 20.May was okay, 1 week vacation, than yesterday i added a new playlist with 1 new song and my iPhone most songs again.

I needed to go, so i stopped syncing and than those songs were missing (i have approx 100 playlists, working as a fitness instructor).

On iPhone AND OSx. SICK! On iPhone even the songs were missing, on OS X the songs were there, but they were removed from the playlists, unrecognizable which playlist was complete or not.

My time machine backup seemed to rescue me, the iTunes started, had all songs except the new added in it, synced: fine.
But than i synced again and now it is synchronizing a lot of songs and videos AGAIN - i got some new playlists duplicate and the songs on the iPhone are "grayed" , not available, but seem to sync now....

+1300 Songs were affected, at least , as they are being copied now.

C'mon apple. This bug is +1 year old, at least some reported same behavior. #Serious? For me (fitness professional) this is something i cannot accept, if i didn't have my wives phone as a backup, i would have not been able to be in my class on time. A situation very uncomfortable , costs me money and reputation. And a LOT OF MY TIME.....

I had the same issue as well. I don't know how to get your playlists back but for future reference when you sync your iPhone to your computer just go to your phone's "summary" page, scroll down to options and check the box that says "manually manage music and videos". This should stop your playlists from getting altered or deleted.

I feel your pain! as a Dj I have 100's of playlists and this was seriously messing my lists up!

I found a workout and actually created a tutorial on how to get around this. It won't fix iTunes removing files from manual playlists (I'm not sure you actually can) but gives you some tips on how to create better protected playlists!

http://ontheriseacademy.com/djs-itunes-deleting-songs-playlists/

Good luck!

today i couldn't drag itunes from the pc to the iphone manually like i usually do, then i checked youtube they said i had to enable a setting, a setting that says manually manage music and songs then the iphone didn't let me enable it without enabling sync then i enabled sync then all my songs disappeared i had 360 and suddenly they became 8

i tried to restore and everything nothing worked i lost the songs

im considering buying android phone again

im tired of this stupid system

android overheat and get stuck but you know what .. their system is way more simple and comfortable than iphone

the iphone you need to watch tutorial for 3 hours how to copy itunes from your iphone to your pc

and update every two days things are getting so worse

"whatever it's called, off hand" isn't very useful. 😕 If you're referring to "iCloud Music Library," that requires a subscription, right? I have a subscription, and that didn't fix the issue for me, so I wonder what you are referring to.

I have been having the same issue as well and it amazes how this complaint has been on since 2014 and Apple hasn’t proffered any solution to the problem rather their geniuses went ahead to remove Spotify from the App Store as most people with this issue were moving on to Spotify. Since some high iqed genius could think of removing Spotify why didn’t they think of solving their own problems??????! It’s so annoying especially for someone like me who is an avid music lover and one of the main reasons I purchased this phone is to have access to Apple Music then I now have to deal with this?! It freaking annoying when you down load songs then want to play something and half of what you downloaded has disappeared!! You can’t even remember what to re download and you won’t even realize till you want to play a particular song and you check you library and whoosh it’s gone. APPLE MUSIC PLEASE WHAT IS THE SOLUTION TO THIS GLITCH AS THIS IS BEYOND ANNOYING!!!!!

Got a similar issue: Songs from playlists made by Apple Music keep disappearing and redownloading over and over again!

now the songs just disappear and the playlists stay empty... what a pain!!!

Same here. iTunes on PC has everything though.

just adding to the list. My songs keep disappearing and I keep adding them. I'm so frustrated with Apple streaming.

Thanks!

This is still an ongoing, frustrating problem with no solution in sight.