iCloud Music Library deletes all your music files?

[yalag]

I read this comment from another website regarding turning on iCloud Music Library:

Your original files will remain untouched. Only if a song can be found in the Apple Music Libary and you download it on another device, the downloaded file will be DRMd.
If a song cannot be found in the Apple Music Libary a copy of it will be uploaded to iCloud and if you download it, the downloaded file will be DRM-free.

So as long as you don't delete the original files, everything will be fine, also after you have cancelled the membership.

(And yes, I tested it myself.)
(Thrice.)
(With three different songs.)
​

I'm really worried about my original music library. Can someone please confirm if this behaviour is true? I'm really worried what happens once day, if I cancel Apple Music.​

 

[graley]

I cannot answer your question, but I do know that switching that on scrambled my play lists.
I now have a Rachmaninoff track embedded into a Biz Scaggs playlist. Etc etc. very annoying.
I turned it off but there was no recovery. I spent half hour with Apple. No solution.

 

[lagwagon]

The only time I have ever seen IML delete files is when enabling IML on a phone or iDevice that have music synced to it locally and it finds ineligible songs. (On iPhone/iPad ineligible songs get deleted for some reason instead of just not showing up for other devices in IML.)

This does not happen from iTunes though. (Ineligible songs just get a cloud icon with a line through it.)