Songs that have had their metadata changed in iTunes have disappeared from my iPhone
I'm an Apple Music, iTunes Match, and iCloud Music Library user. Just saying that out loud, it occurs to me that this stuff is a mess and maybe expecting it all to work correctly is just wishful thinking.
I've been using Apple Music since the day it launched. Recently, like in the last couple weeks, I noticed that some albums on my iPhone were missing songs. In every case, I believe the missing songs are ones where I've edited the song title and possibly other metadata in iTunes. It's difficult for me to check whether EVERY Apple Music song where I've edited the title is now messed up, but it goes back pretty far, definitely to before I started experiencing disappearing songs.
To give you a concrete example, a while ago I added the 2pac album "2pacalypse Now." In Apple Music, that album is missing all of the features from the song titles, so I added them back in. For a while things were fine, but recently the songs where I added the features to the song title disappeared from my iPhone. Now all I see are the five tracks that don't have features, and a link to "Show Complete Album" at the bottom.
I spoke with @applemusichelp on Twitter last night and they instructed me to turn off Apple Music and iCloud Music Library on my iPhone, restart the phone, log back into Apple Music, and re-enable iCloud Music Library. Didn't work. Their recommendation then was, "Don't edit metadata for Apple Music tracks in iTunes." To which my response was, "Then why does iTunes let you edit metadata for Apple Music tracks in the first place?"
Anyone else experiencing this problem? Anyone have a fix?