I cancelled my Apple Music, now ALL my music is deleted

I'm glad to hear you were able to recover your content, that is good news. See Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy for the strategy I use to keep my backup to to date. I always pay keen attention to what it thinks should be deleted from the backup set before I let it proceed. This allowed me to recover from a very nasty bug some years ago when iTunes decided to throw away nearly all of my downloaded podcast episodes.

I think both Apple Music and iTunes Match should issue a very large and clear warning that all of a user's media should be downloaded to local storage before the service is cancelled.

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What I am saying is this: I had a service running (iCloud music library).

I don't believe that you did, not unless you previously had iTunes Match which you then let lapse in favour of Apple Music.

There are three levels of cloud service for iTunes.

• iTunes in the Cloud: Free access to past purchases from the iTunes Store that have not been removed by their respective rights holders. You can download or stream any unhidden past purchases to any compatible device on demand, although a feature called association prevents you accessing content from different Apple IDs in this way by locking you to one ID for 90 days each time you change.
• iTunes Match: Annual subscription service. As iTunes in the Cloud, but music purchased from outside the iTunes Store, ripped from CD, etc. can be either matched or uploaded (there are exceptions for quality, size, etc.). As before you can download or stream on demand. This should not be treated as an alternative to local storage or backup, because matching may not always be perfect (e.g. studio vs. live, clean vs. explicit), purchases can (albeit rarely for music) be removed by rights holders, and if you make an error deleting the cloud copy from iTunes that will be reflected in the other copies of your library meaning you won't be able to recover the deleted item. Once items are match or uploaded you can remove the local download but with the caveat that you should download all of the content that you want to keep before closing your subscription to the service, unless you already have it backed up elsewhere.
• Apple Music: Monthly subscription service. As iTunes Match with additional access to nearly all music in the iTunes Store catalogue.

The last two services include the iCloud Music Library feature, which allows for changes in one library to be automatically reflected in others. With iTunes in the Cloud if you hide a past purchase it is hidden from the purchase history on all devices, but nothing is ever removed from a device or permanently removed from your purchase history, and there is no mirroring of playlists. If you no longer have either of the iCloud Music Library services then what is stored locally and subject to Apple Music DRM won't work any more, what is free from that type of DRM will, what is in the cloud and is purchased content will work, and should you still see anything that isn't a purchase then it won't work.

I don't know what is and isn't stored locally on your hard drive, but the screenshot would seem to indicate little or nothing. You won't be able to sign into iCloud Music Library because the subscription is inactive. Even if you paid for a new month now there is every likelyhood that all those cloud items you see now would be removed and you would start off with an empty iCloud Music Library showing nothing but your unhidden purchases. You would need to contact iTunes Store support for a definitive view on that, and even they might have trouble finding an answer. I don't know if they have a way to rescue your account as it was. Ask them.

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Check to see if the purchases you're looking for are hidden. If your purchases are hidden, you might not see them even after you follow the steps in this article. Learn how to unhide purchases.

Since you've cancelled Apple Music, and I presume not installed iTunes Match, you cannot use iCloud Music Library any more. Use iTunes > Preferences > General to turn it off and Apple Music features too.

Had you chosen to keep all of your media in the cloud when using Apple Music to save space on the computer? If so you should have redownloaded everything that was from your library rather than Apple Music before closing the account.

See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device. You may be able to recover any non-DRM content from the iPhone.

tt2

No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that if you put all of your eggs in one basket and throw away the basket then you've got no eggs. You were paying an ongoing subscription to access content stored in the cloud. What makes you think you should still have access to the service once you've cancelled it? Your purchases from the iTunes Store should still be available to you, although the way you have done things may have hidden them. Anything that wasn't purchased from the store that you had ripped locally, or obtained from other services, will have been lost if you didn't download it first and it isn't stored on a backup or device you can extract it from.

See Hide and unhide music, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and books - Apple Support to unhide any of your past purchases that have been hidden. Then see Redownload apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books from the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, and App Store - Apple Support to download them. Anything that wasn't bought from Apple can be restored from its respective cloud service and/or you can re-rip your CDs.

tt2

Just restart your computer ones your music will be back and i agree with you@Jameson

Thanks for your response. I followed the steps you mentioned and, once I replaced the library file, my original songs seemed to reappear. Glad as I was, I thought it had solved my problem. But NO, none of the songs will play and an orange exclamation point appears in the upper right corner of my itunes app telling me "We couldn't make you iCloud Music Library available. Click retry". Did I click retry? YES, a bunch of times, every time typing in my itunes password, but it does NOT work.

All my songs are greyed out, none of the will play and this thing is just a big load of crap. On each song there's the icon showing it's in icloud, not in local library, but it will not download any of them.

Thankyou@Jameson.H

Thanks for your response. I followed the steps you mentioned. Glad as I was, I thought it had solved my problem.

keep up your work