Imported Music has iCloud Status: Apple Music

HI,

Read this About iCloud Music Library icons and status - Apple Support

JIm

iCloud Status of Apple Music means either (1) this is music you added to your library from Apple Music or (2) when you set up iCloud Music Library, these were songs that Apple Music felt it had in it's library, so instead of uploading a copy from your computer, it "matched" it to their files. (Unfortunately this also causes a lot of issues with the wrong version of a song being "matched" which you notice when you try to play it on a device that does not physically have the music files present.)

Hi,

Itunes match uses the sound footprint to determine if a track can be matched whereas I believe Apple music relies more on the metadata. Whilst not perfect, match has a lot fewer mismatches than for Apple Music. I have had hardly any mismatches on my large library.

You could create a smart playlist based on Kind = Apple AAC audio file

Jim

Ozzmystro wrote:

It seems strange that they would employ two different techniques for essentially the same task.

I shall try your suggestion when I get home and report back. Thanks!

I think the reason might be that iTunes Match "matches" your songs to the iTunes Store library and Apple Music/ICML "matches" your library to the Apple Music library. And as Jim pointed out, it uses the metadata, but unfortunately only the Artist Name and Track Name - hence the issues with mis-matching songs.

Yes I had this too What I did was i contacted Apple and explained the issue and their engineers reset my library from their end and thankfully all purc songs that had a wrong status such as uploaded or Apple Music changed to purchased. So this would be your best bet. However there was a few songs that wouldn't reset but Apple just simply gave me credit to repurchase them and that was fine hope this helps