Apple Releases iTunes 12.2.1 With iTunes Match Fix

My original issue (as reported in this thread) was that, after enabling iCloud Music Library, 1) 99% of my songs were marked as "Removed" from iCloud, 2) iTunes/AM/iCloud deleted songs from my music library. (I had subscribed to iTunes Match many years ago, but not recently). I ultimately restored my music library from a backup.

After updating to iTunes 12.2.1, and enabling iCloud Music Library, 1) 99% of my music is still listed as "Removed" from iCloud, and 2) it appears that none of my music was altered/deleted buy Apple Music/iCloud. I guess that's progress.
 
Still no way to view the Beats 1 schedule but to now be able to add music from Beats 1 and browse the artist/album in iTunes is welcome.
 
jicon said:
Beats1 would never work on Airplay, but not my type of listening genre.
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It's working for iOS though, meaning this rather is a bug and not a feature. Btw. I quite like Beats 1, way too much hiphop for my taste, but some shows like Zane Lowe do present some interesting stuff. Give it a try.

jicon said:
What I ended up doing was hold down Option, and choose the system volume in the menu bar to send audio to an AE. That consistently worked.
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Thanks for that!
 
usarioclave said:
iTunes really has become a bear to use. It's amazing that after all these years Apple hasn't come out with a better UI for it.
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I've been using it from the start and the US has changed a lot.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/itunes-through-the-ages/

I am also part of that crowd that would like syncing functionality to be removed from the music part.

Having said that I seem to use iTunes on my MacBook very little these days, the iPhone/iPad seem to be my go to music playing devices of choice.
 
So since the mess of the last release, I have had iCloud Music enabled on my phone, so I can save playlists, but not on my desktop iTunes, becuase I knew streaming whatever I wanted was fine. I'd restored my entire iTunes folder to make sure all my playlists and files were how they should have been.

However, this morning I installed the update, enabled iCloud Music on my desktop and... it messed up again. All my playlists were changed to how they changed after the last update. I think what happened was last time it uploaded all the changes to the cloud, so now it's just resynched them locally.

Is there any way to clear everything that's saved in the cloud, like reset all the stuff that's stored there, so when I enable it on my desktop (after I restore, again) that is the definite version? Even if it loses all the stuff I've saved on my phone, that's not the end of the world. My definitive library should be the one on my desktop, which it a ten year old iTunes library with >250gb of music saved.
 
They still haven't fixed the broken album view for Home Sharing though, I can't believe they could miss such a glaring problem as it means they can't be testing Home Sharing very well at all (if at all) before release.
 
miss-labelled songs,, this update should hopefully shed light some hope..

I'm hoping Apple fixed up iCloud synced.. Found the problem... iTunes *disables* this checkbox after u login, which is why it doesn't sync....

This better be fixed... It's only an checkbox.......
 
The bug that exists for me is that some albums that exist completely in apple music (Sting Mercury Falling or Nothing Like the Sun). They both exist, but when I add them to my music, only 5-6 of the tracks actually come through. I believe this is because I only had those specific tracks saved in my iTunes Match account. At the moment, I cannot see a way to delete out the tracks from my match in order to get the complete album in my Apple Music. I don't care about losing the tracks I delete as the subscription model is a reality that is coming at us, and I own the cds anyways, so worst case scenario, I still have them. I use match because I have a number of live recordings that I like to have available in the cloud for my listening pleasure that are not avail on the streaming services. Therefore, does this update afford me the ability to go into match and clear out the items that are giving complications ?

Lastly, when I import any albums or songs that also exist in my match account via apple music, it imports a bootleg version of the song rather than the actual album track
 
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Can someone let me know about the check/unchecking feature in playlists that has been removed! Song titles are usually bolded if checked and faintly black if unchecked. Now they're always bolded so I cannot tell which songs are checked.
 
Does everybody else have the bug where iTunes will not open and automatically backup the iPhone like it used to? Or is it just mine?

This update hasn't sorted this issue.
 
toypadlock said:
try reading that article one more time and see if you can work out what you misunderstood the first time.
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No, i'm sure he's right, because i have the same problem: some of my songs are identified as Apple Music, though i have the "Original" MP3 in my iTunes library (click on song -> information).

Say, i ripped the compilation "Party Power Pack" years ago as MP3 from CD. Some of the songs were identified as Match and i've been able to download them as AAC. Others are identified as "Apple Music".
When i follow this article, remove the download (which then removes my own MP3 file) and make it available offline again, i end up with a DRM AAC from Apple Music. Tested it on some songs, always the same.
 
toypadlock said:
try reading that article one more time and see if you can work out what you misunderstood the first time.
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Ok, I've read it two more times and I can't work it out... other than that maybe the problem that Apple think they have fixed might not be the problem that I have. Some of my music, existing in my primary iTunes installation, as the master ALAC or MP3 copy, has been marked "Apple Music" under iCloud Status (doesn't have Fairplay attached - it's not AAC).

I don't actually know whether it's been "Matched" or "Uploaded" - it doesn't tell me. If indeed it has been "Matched", then if I delete my copy and download off iCloud, I lose my copy and get Apple's 256K AAC copy - which may or may not be DRM'd (according to the above poster it will be DRM'd) - I'm too scared to try, and anyway I don't want to lose my superior lossless copy in the case of the ALAC files.

Maybe they have been "Uploaded" rather than "Matched" in which case I could delete and download the full original, but how do I tell?

This applies to around 300 of my 8000 tracks.
 
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Dear Apple,

while the fact you were making scrambled eggs of people's libraries was the biggest problem with 12.2, I would like to direct your attention to the My Music section as well...

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Why does Apple just not separate Apple Music from iTunes so it will not confuse with iTunes Match or Cloud Music. This issue feels like when an Antivirus on Windows warns you to uninstall other Antivirus because it will conflict with each other.
 
Mascots said:
Yep! If you plan on keeping Match, your 16,000 songs will remain DRM-free while in iCloud Music Library. Match is really the guarantee in keeping your previously owned tracks DRMless and I think the only noticeable differentiating factor.

Though, what I don't know with Apple Music is since the online limited was bumped to 100,000k, if Match also will retain 100k unDRM'd tracks or be cut off after the initial 20k. Not sure about that (my library is only ~15k).

(Fyi, I've tested this and haven't had a problem ~ tracks I download that were original unDRM'd still don't have it & mp3s I add without DRM can still be uploaded and downloaded without any DRM attached; only tracks added from Apple Music have DRM [as expected, of course]).
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Hey! So I'm new to the forums, but I've been searching for some clarification with this, and haven't seemed to find any. Here is the situation. I use iTunes for all my music, and have all my local files backed up. Before Apple Music, I was NOT and iTunes match subscriber. After I signed up for Apple Music, and heard about the DRM for the files that I already owned or purchased separately, I signed up for iTunes Match. Honestly I think I'm a bit confused in general as to what iTunes Match does for me, benefits wise. For example, with an album that I bought on Amazon MP3 and loaded to iTunes. When I look at the file, it says that it is "matched". On the local computer, it is obviously the original file. If I'm on another PC that has my iCloud library shared with it, I see it that it's location is in the "Cloud", and I see the current status is "Matched". So my question, is what does this mean exactly? Does it mean that the files I stream from that PC are without DRM? When I download those files to the remote PC, they then have DRM associated with them, even though they should be matched. With anything I upload or any files that I own that say "matched", when I download them on another device, are they supposed to have DRM? Thanks!!
 
erichd41 said:
Hey! So I'm new to the forums, but I've been searching for some clarification with this, and haven't seemed to find any. Here is the situation. I use iTunes for all my music, and have all my local files backed up. Before Apple Music, I was NOT and iTunes match subscriber. After I signed up for Apple Music, and heard about the DRM for the files that I already owned or purchased separately, I signed up for iTunes Match. Honestly I think I'm a bit confused in general as to what iTunes Match does for me, benefits wise. For example, with an album that I bought on Amazon MP3 and loaded to iTunes. When I look at the file, it says that it is "matched". On the local computer, it is obviously the original file. If I'm on another PC that has my iCloud library shared with it, I see it that it's location is in the "Cloud", and I see the current status is "Matched". So my question, is what does this mean exactly? Does it mean that the files I stream from that PC are without DRM? When I download those files to the remote PC, they then have DRM associated with them, even though they should be matched. With anything I upload or any files that I own that say "matched", when I download them on another device, are they supposed to have DRM? Thanks!!
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No, they are not supposed to have DRM. They will be AAC files (.m4a) rather than MP3 files, but they should not have DRM.

If you are still using Apple Music, however, there are bugs that may give you DRM'd files.
 
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