If I didn't purchase on iTunes, it seems to delete those songs at some point; especially at time of updates. Am I imagining or does iTunes deliberately
"lose" songs not purchased on their site? Music from my own CDs/Albums, often NOT AVAILABLE on iTunes. Those songs will also not store on
iCloud. Is this iTunes policy? If this is "normal", then I must find another way to secure my non-iTunes purchase data base 😟 Suggestions or comments?
Hi,
It is not normal. I have updated iTunes library many times and have not lost any music. Over 80% of my music is non-itunes purchases.
Have you used finder to search to see if the tracks are still on your hard drive?
Jim
Mine has also been delated.Thats about 100 hours worth too.
I wish it was on this hard drive, but no. I will have to go back to another (my older Mac) I have in hopes it & others will be there. I fought with my iPad for about a month cuz it consistently REMOVED (non-iTune) songs from my playlists whenever I was online.....very bizarre. I have been with iTunes since its inception and have noted songs missing rather regularly; primarily after updates. Part was due to changes in account name & even though I caught it quickly I was never able to get those back either ;( BUT there has been no account name changes in the past 8 yrs, soooooo. I'm at a loss as to what to do to secure my music without attempting to completely bypass iTunes or getting an app to use in conjunction to it. I still have some of these "lost songs" on my iPod which I will download to a different app in effort to save them until someone is able to help solve this problem 😟
Non-iTunes purchases delete on update
