iPhone 12 Pro Max Apple Music question

[Telesmurfen]

I’m constantly switching between Spotify and Apple Music, and would like to use AM more exclusively, but I have a problem, that I hope you can help me solve.
A few years ago, when CDs were still the main way of listening to music, I ripped my entire CD collection to my iMac, and synced it with iCloud/iTunes, which was a great way to enable me to listen to all my music on my iPhone, iPad, MacBook, etc.
I remember also enabling iTunes Match.
And I think that might be the source of the problems I’m facing now.
Let me give an example. I collect Elvis music. So, naturally I have uploaded quite a few live concert CDs of Elvis that are part of “my library”.
Now, if I go into Apple Music and want to listen to a “greatest hits” kind of album, as found in the Apple Music tab (not “my library”), suddenly it exchanges the studio version of let’s say the classic “Can’t help falling in love” with a live version that I have uploaded years ago.
So it doesn’t play the album as found on AM.. it mixes it with songs from “my library”. This is quite frustrating. Same goes for other artists/songs that are found in both Apple Music and “my library”. It keep jumping between the AM version and my low-res 128 MP3 rips from years ago.
If I want to be sure to listen to an album “as intended”, I have to use Spotify.
Is there any way to maintain my ripped music in the “my library” section and not have it interfere with Apple Music?

 

[ericwn]

Thanks for posting this. I don’t believe there is a direct fix for these issues. I have similar experiences with remixed and remastered albums that I happen to have on CD but that are sadly missing in the AM catalogue- I hardly get the version I want at a time.
Let me not get started on albums that are now only available with muted curse words in the catalogue. It’s a mess in some areas.

 

[BrianBaughn]

This is an OLD problem (in tech years). When I switched from iTunes Match, with my ripped CDs, to Apple Music the "wrong version" problem popped up on several LPs.

My fix was to start fresh with a new Apple Music library and only add music for which Apple Music did not have an equivalent version.

 

[Telesmurfen]

Thanks for the replies.. seems like there’s sadly not a quick fix to this. It seems strange that this is not already fixed (we’re soon approaching iOS 15). Shouldn’t be too difficult to keep the Apple Music part and the “my library” separate (in the same app). Considering that a lot of older music is rereleased as remixed or remastered, it’s important to music collectors to be able to play specific versions of songs. With Apple Music and “my library” interfering with each other, the listening experience becomes unpredictable and a little confusing. Luckily they get it right 90% of the time, but still..

 

[DeepIn2U]

I’m constantly switching between Spotify and Apple Music, and would like to use AM more exclusively, but I have a problem, that I hope you can help me solve.
A few years ago, when CDs were still the main way of listening to music, I ripped my entire CD collection to my iMac, and synced it with iCloud/iTunes, which was a great way to enable me to listen to all my music on my iPhone, iPad, MacBook, etc.
I remember also enabling iTunes Match.
And I think that might be the source of the problems I’m facing now.
Let me give an example. I collect Elvis music. So, naturally I have uploaded quite a few live concert CDs of Elvis that are part of “my library”.
Now, if I go into Apple Music and want to listen to a “greatest hits” kind of album, as found in the Apple Music tab (not “my library”), suddenly it exchanges the studio version of let’s say the classic “Can’t help falling in love” with a live version that I have uploaded years ago.
So it doesn’t play the album as found on AM.. it mixes it with songs from “my library”. This is quite frustrating. Same goes for other artists/songs that are found in both Apple Music and “my library”. It keep jumping between the AM version and my low-res 128 MP3 rips from years ago.
If I want to be sure to listen to an album “as intended”, I have to use Spotify.
Is there any way to maintain my ripped music in the “my library” section and not have it interfere with Apple Music?

What did you name the Elvis music you uploaded to Apple Match?
Did you name it 'elvis' or 'Elvis' or 'Elvis Prestley'?
- did you name the song titles as well?

You may need to use iTunes on your Mac to properly sort out what YOu uploaded vs Apple Music.
You can also specify only locally stored music to playback.

 

[asus389]

Thanks for the replies.. seems like there’s sadly not a quick fix to this. It seems strange that this is not already fixed (we’re soon approaching iOS 15). Shouldn’t be too difficult to keep the Apple Music part and the “my library” separate (in the same app). Considering that a lot of older music is rereleased as remixed or remastered, it’s important to music collectors to be able to play specific versions of songs. With Apple Music and “my library” interfering with each other, the listening experience becomes unpredictable and a little confusing. Luckily they get it right 90% of the time, but still..

You could try making playlists from your uploaded songs of the albums that it has trouble with. Then you can explicitly ask it to play those playlists. Just don't name them the same as the official album name and share them to AM for others to use lol.