Finding Corrupted Files Due to Apple Music

Apple Music is an unmitigated nightmare. First I have found thousands of tunes deleted from my library.


Now I am finding that many of the remaining tunes, ones that I own outright, now have DRM applied.


Finally, I tried listening to a tune and found that even though it was labeled properly for the album it was in, it was in fact a totally unrelated tune from a different album, but a different artist.


I am well and truly at my wits end. I've watched Apple Music turn my 190+ gig music library, one that I have built up since my iMac G4, into a near useless pile of digital trash.


I'm left to wonder, how can I find out all the errors that Apple Music has introduced into my library? Do I have to just listen to every last track for months or years on end? How is it possible to reconcile all the damage that Apple Music has wreaked on my personal library?


I truly wish I never heard of Apple Music.

OS X Mavericks (10.9.3), 8 gigs of RAM, 15: Matte screen

Posted on Aug 6, 2015 12:12 AM

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Aug 8, 2015 9:55 AM in response to tomfromchicago

I hear ya! Same thing happened to me. I have 145GB of music. Now, files are corrupted, mislabeled, wrong artwork, wrong files play, worst even is that the songs are now .m4p (DRM protected) and can only be played through iTunes or quicktime. You can't even preview them with the spacebar!!!

I tried this trick of changing the .itl file and it only works superficially, once you begin to play your music again the songs jump around, mislabeling themselves again etc...

Then I saw this

If your music library shows incorrect details with iTunes Match or Apple Music, and you previously cancelled an iTunes M…

But still has not fixed my issue. It seems it will, but now 90% of my art work is missing, files are still mislabeled... I see no end to this.

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