Hello all!
So I deleted my entire music library on my iPhone, in an attempt to fix the native apps on my Apple Watch, see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/native-apps-do-not-load.1919307/page-23#post-22081767
Now, with iCloud Music Library turned off, I sync it with my iTunes Library, so that I can get some of my local music transferred to my iPhone. Then I turned on iCloud Music Library, which asked my whether I want to Merge or Replace.
I chose Merge. Now I have double playlists, with some of my local synced songs in it, and the other songs from Apple Music being removed from it?!?! Doing so, also deleted my music on my iTunes playlist. Like WTF?!?!?! Did I miss something here? I am missing lots of songs I added to my playlists from Apple Music.
Let's say Playlist A will have songs I added from my local library, then a copy of Playlist A will have nothing in it. Where did I go wrong? What does Merge actually do? Last time I chose Replace during the trial, it deleted every ****ing music on my iPhone and replaced it with nothing?
Note: The reason why I like to sync my local songs before I turn on iCloud Music Library is because I found out that if I rely 100% on Apple Music to save offline music, it actually takes way too much space on my ****ing 16GB iPhone, while syncing from local, I can convert those songs into 128kbps AAC. I think Apple is wrong about having one place for all your Music. Streamed music and local music should not be mixed together. I'm starting to miss my Spotify subscription.
So I deleted my entire music library on my iPhone, in an attempt to fix the native apps on my Apple Watch, see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/native-apps-do-not-load.1919307/page-23#post-22081767
Now, with iCloud Music Library turned off, I sync it with my iTunes Library, so that I can get some of my local music transferred to my iPhone. Then I turned on iCloud Music Library, which asked my whether I want to Merge or Replace.
I chose Merge. Now I have double playlists, with some of my local synced songs in it, and the other songs from Apple Music being removed from it?!?! Doing so, also deleted my music on my iTunes playlist. Like WTF?!?!?! Did I miss something here? I am missing lots of songs I added to my playlists from Apple Music.
Let's say Playlist A will have songs I added from my local library, then a copy of Playlist A will have nothing in it. Where did I go wrong? What does Merge actually do? Last time I chose Replace during the trial, it deleted every ****ing music on my iPhone and replaced it with nothing?
Note: The reason why I like to sync my local songs before I turn on iCloud Music Library is because I found out that if I rely 100% on Apple Music to save offline music, it actually takes way too much space on my ****ing 16GB iPhone, while syncing from local, I can convert those songs into 128kbps AAC. I think Apple is wrong about having one place for all your Music. Streamed music and local music should not be mixed together. I'm starting to miss my Spotify subscription.