Hello,
I'm looking to make my entire music library - around 18,000 songs - available via Sonos, so in preparation for this I subscribed to iTunes Match in order to upload my very carefully curated music library to the iCloud Music Library.
However, during this process iTunes appears to have re-named the vast majority of the songs that I've purchased previously from the iTunes store - of which there are about 3,000. It's re-populated album / single names that I'd previously amended or removed, or altered the names of songs slightly (removing capitalisation, for example). For someone that has spent so much time organising their music in a systematic way over the last 14 years, this is incredibly frustrating and stressful.
This leads me on to a couple of questions which I'm hoping someone can help me with:
- How can I reverse what iTunes has just done to my music library without having to amend the naming conventions of more than 3,000 songs again? Should I revert to a previous iTunes library before I made my library available on iCloud? What can I do to ensure that this doesn't happen again?
- Additionally, a lot of the music (around 1,700 songs) is in the old DRM-protected m4p format - another reason why I wanted to subscribe to iTunes Match, so that I could "upgrade" and remove this protection and make it accessible on a different platform. However, what I'd forgotten was that all of these songs were all downloaded under a previous Apple ID (student email address!), which I have since transferred to my current email address. However, if I delete these songs from my library, they don't show as re-downloadable from the cloud. Any suggestions as to the best solution for removing the DRM from these files?
Thanks.
I'm looking to make my entire music library - around 18,000 songs - available via Sonos, so in preparation for this I subscribed to iTunes Match in order to upload my very carefully curated music library to the iCloud Music Library.
However, during this process iTunes appears to have re-named the vast majority of the songs that I've purchased previously from the iTunes store - of which there are about 3,000. It's re-populated album / single names that I'd previously amended or removed, or altered the names of songs slightly (removing capitalisation, for example). For someone that has spent so much time organising their music in a systematic way over the last 14 years, this is incredibly frustrating and stressful.
This leads me on to a couple of questions which I'm hoping someone can help me with:
- How can I reverse what iTunes has just done to my music library without having to amend the naming conventions of more than 3,000 songs again? Should I revert to a previous iTunes library before I made my library available on iCloud? What can I do to ensure that this doesn't happen again?
- Additionally, a lot of the music (around 1,700 songs) is in the old DRM-protected m4p format - another reason why I wanted to subscribe to iTunes Match, so that I could "upgrade" and remove this protection and make it accessible on a different platform. However, what I'd forgotten was that all of these songs were all downloaded under a previous Apple ID (student email address!), which I have since transferred to my current email address. However, if I delete these songs from my library, they don't show as re-downloadable from the cloud. Any suggestions as to the best solution for removing the DRM from these files?
Thanks.