Apple Music replacing my private music with downloads from iTunes store

@Jimzgoldfinch

None of what you say matches my experience.

I have never had iTunes Match. My Apple Music subscription ran for 2 days during trial period. Apple Music has replaced some of my rare remixes (and a ton of album artwork) with vanilla versions of tracks. Now my subscription is over, I DO NOT have my music back - it's still the versions Apple deemed to swap in for them. I'd estimate something like 2 dozen (that I've found so far) are gone thanks to Apple Music.

Hi,

Apple music like iTunes match scans your library on your computer to determine what can be matched or needs to uploaded. It does not change the originals on your computer.

Did you make a back up before subscribing to Apple music? If so, I suggest that you restore your library from your back up.

Jim

Hi,

I actually found that it DOES change the private songs that you add to your library. I ripped the Adele 25 cd(which isn't even on apple music btw) and added it to my library. Once I decided to merge the icloud with my itunes library, the album was replaced with one full of piano covers by Victoria Adelene. So frustrating...

Is there any solution to this?

Same prob.

Uploaded my music files. All explicit files were altered by Apple music to bleep out some wording in songs. Really does irk me allot. Apple music does indeed mess with the music files you originally upload if it sees that the file can be matched.

I have the same problem. Songs that I ripped from CD's have randomly been replaced with different versions. Worse - I stupidly sold and gave away a lot of my old CD's and can no longer find the original version. In a few cases - the replaced song is completed different - different artist - one has even been replaced by a foreign singer in a foreign language.

Apple has damaged my own personal library of music, perhaps irreparably.

The other problem is that I have an Ipod Classic for my car and when I try to synch it, it will not synch songs that I own but that Apple mistakenly thinks is part of Apple Music. So I cannot transfer songs that I own (and in many cases purchased on iTunes) because Apple has matched this song to something in Apple Music (which will not synch to an older device).

So once again, Apple has basically seized my property and will not allow me to access it.

Not only is this frustrating (and I am a long-time and continuing customer of Apple), I wonder how this can even be legal? How can Apple commandeer MY music and deny me access to property I have rightfully purchased?

DI'd you back up your music before subscribing to iTunes Match? If so, you can restore your music from the back up.

Jim

I've had this problem for a very long time to, but I finally seem to have found a solution. Find the album that Apple Music is playing instead of yours. Edit the songs in the album (iTunes, Right Click, Get Info). Rename the album and the songs to things like "SUCKY VERSIONS OF MY GOOD MUSIC" as I have done, also change the sorting, artist, composer, and whatever else. Once everything syncs, you should be able to play your music fine. If this doesn't work, try re-importing your music if you still have the original.

Hello all.

I had the same problem. All of a sudden, my entire list of music was deleted from my iPhone and all the music was only available by wifi connection. I tried to download all of the songs again, but then some songs were replaced by different versions that I didn't want. For instance a live version would be swapped for a studio version. Bad Apple...

But this worked for me and could work for you if you have a backup of your songs on your pc/mac:

Step 1: I deleted all of the music from my iPhone.

Step 2: I switched off the iCloud music library.

Step 3: I made a playlist "All Music" in iTunes and put all my songs that I have in iTunes in it.

Step 4: Connected my iPhone to iTunes.

Step 5: I dragged this playlist to my iPhone. All of the songs started transferring to my iPhone.

Step 6: (optional) I turned my iCloud music library back on.

Now, again, I have all of my precious songs back on my device. Including live versions and all of those songs that I had on my iPhone before. Hallelujah!

I hope this works for you too.

Now please get me an update in which I can get rid of those stupid album art like soundtrack or greatest hits nonsense. I want Original album art!!!

Please let me know if it works for you too.

I love apple music besides no 320K Files and the fact that you can't toggle a switch to play cloud versions on apple music or your version. I DJ and i have many acapella tracks and i listen to a cloud bases radio mixes apple suggest and all of a sudden a track i may have is in there and the track is labeled correctly but its playing my acapella version cause of the match feature and its very frustrating. seems like a easy fix. Any solutions for me 😟 also a song fader for transitions would be a nice implement please, Spotify has it and also its on iTunes on a computer bring to app please !!!! podcast option in iTunes on the app would be amazing and a dark mode option done with rant!!! just see so much potential

I did the exact thing earlier. Canceled Apple Music after all that and switched back to Spotify. I used to like iTunes for its simplicity but it has become increasingly mediocre since the addition of Apple Music. I had over 100GB of my own music to download after canceling. Music that I added to playlists would dissappear as well. Amongst other dumb setbacks that I never would've expected from Apple based on years passed. Couldn't stand it. Wont' go back or recommend it to anyone that likes music until Apple rectifies this musical aberration.

This ***** so much. I sold a closet of CDs only to find some of my songs replaced and DRM'd. This is not obvious and not what I want at all. Essentially I can lose access to my own music:

1. Match with Apple Music

2. Deleted originals

3. Apple slave for life

*** AF

Jim,

iTunes definitely replaced tracks from my library with DRM-protected Apple Music files. The original files are gone. I have about 20 albums with random tracks that have been replaced with protected AAC files. These were all from CDs that I ripped over 10 years ago. The tracks that I listened to while I still had the Apple Music trial are now gone.

See the attached screen shot. The missing file is An Tull. It is greyed out in my library, and the Get Info dialog box says it is in iCloud. The Finder shows all of the tracks except this one. I added it back in 2003, but it was "updated" in 2015 shortly after I joined the Apple Music trial.

I definitely did not delete them. Clearly this is a real problem because it's happening to so many people.

-Steve

Did Apple Music replace the track in iTunes, or did it actually delete the original file from your hard drive?