Can't access my complete music library in iTunes anymore

[gustavopi]

Not sure if this is the right place to get help on this, let me know if not.

I have Movave, Catalina and an iPhone with iOS13. I buy my musics in the system I am using, and this is creating a mess. Musics that I buy in iTunes won't appear in Apple Music and vice versa. Only the iPhone shows the complete list.

I asked for help in Brazilian Apple's community, but got only a polite answer with some links that didn't solve. Some options are not available because I didn't sign Music, the library synchronization option in my iPhone is not available. It's bizarre I see the song in store marked as bought but won't play and won't appears in my library to play it!

Maybe deleting some config file will make iTunes to rebuild the list, but I have doubts... I'm afraid to ruin everything! Please help!

 

[madrich]

You are unclear in that you say you have Mojave and Catalina? The two cannot coexist on one computer unless you partition the hard drive. Further iTunes in Mojave and Catalina are different, it does not exist in Catalina. It was replaced with three separate apps for music, podcasts and movies.

 

[gustavopi]

You are unclear in that you say you have Mojave and Catalina? The two cannot coexist on one computer unless you partition the hard drive. Further iTunes in Mojave and Catalina are different, it does not exist in Catalina. It was replaced with three separate apps for music, podcasts and movies.

Good news for you, you can, and it's easy. I was so upset with Catalina but this process just changed my mind a bit, at list the bottom of those system are strongly well made. I just create another APFS, run Mojave installation and that's it, both was running.

There is some issues, my Mojave is with FileVauld on, so the jump from one to anther is not smooth, I have to turn off Catalina and open the menu to choose Mojave or Windows (yes, still have a Windows to play games). Other issue is the strange recovering of empty space. I uninstalled some apps from Catalina to open space for Mojave as they are in two volumes of the same partition, but this will not occurs right when the trash is empty, it tuck some time... this is strange. Small issues in this matter, but I have installed a lot of systems lately, and these are minor issues to me.

In Catalina, iTunes was split into Apple Music, TV and some functions gone to Finder (backup of iPhone). My first impression was good, they organized so many different functions, I liked the idea. But Apple Music does not work well, we have a lot of complains until today in this community. But I didn't come back to Mojave because of iTunes, I just wish to solve the library issue.

The thing is, as long we consider software, using an old app is not a good idea, but we are considering cloud services, so it should. It does not matter where I buy the song, it should be available the whole list to all apps are allowed to log in.

 

[madrich]

Why do you need two volumes (that are not compatible) in the same partition?

 

[gustavopi]

Why do you need two volumes (that are not compatible) in the same partition?

Some tasks as publishing with Xcode demands Catalina, so I will keep it for now. Maybe if Catalina got improved I will come back to it, otherwise I will keep a small install of Catalina, why not?