Resolved iTunes sharing -- some songs are missing!

[dauber]

Okay, this is weird. For years and years, I would add songs to my MBP's iTunes by connecting to my iMac's iTunes library and clicking the "Import" button.

I'm finding something very weird though: I've added probably about twenty albums' worth of songs to my iMac's iTunes library since Friday. They're there. They're showing up in iTunes on my iMac.

Now...when I open iTunes on my MacBookPro and connect to my iMac's library, NONE of the songs that were imported since Friday show up. Not a single one.

I'm logged into the same iCloud account on both instances of iTunes. I have sharing enabled on both.

Both machines are running iTunes 12.9.5.5.

Here's a screen cap of the iTunes library on my iMac. My iMac's library's name is "Ramon":



Now, here's what iTunes looks like on my MBP, which is currently connected to "Ramon"'s library and ergo should be showing me everything that is in Ramon's library:



And just to make sure that maybe because of some strange tagging that the songs MIGHT be still visible when connecting via my iMac, I tried searching for them...nope. (And Danger Noodle is just one example. Again, I have a bunch of stuff that I imported into my iMac since Friday; none of which is visible to my MBP.)

In terms of troubleshooting, I have disabled and reenabled home sharing and media sharing on both machines. I've shut down and rebootd both machines. Didn't do a dang thing.

Oh...and just to make things more complicated...in my MBP's iTunes library, I'm seeing the Eden Brent album that I imported from Ramon's library, which means that it saw it on Ramon at some point. Now all of a sudden, when I connect iTunes on my MBP to Ramon's library, it no longer sees that Eden Brent album on Ramon, but when I'm directly using Ramon, I see it there. So....gah!!!!

Help???

 

[camilasaunder89]

It might happen that you were not able to complete the backup of your apps in the iCloud. You can check the same by logging into your Apple account.

 

[dauber]

I don't do iCloud backups. Never did. What would that have anything to do with it when I'm just sharing over my wifi???

(BTW, one more thing: "Share my entire library" is bulleted.)

 

[dauber]

The plot thickens...

On my MacBookpro, there are two dropdown options that say "Ramon": one with just an eighth-note in a box, the other with an eighth-note in a house (which I'm guessing indicates home sharing).


It's the one with the house icon that doesn't show anything I've imported since Friday. But if I switch to the box icon, I can see everything -- but there's no "Import" button, nor is there an import option in the context menu.

 

[dauber]

UGHGHHHHHGGHGHHHH...

I think I know what the problem was....

I got a new iMac last month, and I restored my backup from my old iMac onto it.

My new iMac's name is Apollo. My old iMac's name is Ramon. And I never gave the library on the new iMac a different name...so I'm thinking that there must have been some criss-cross confusion, know what I mean?

Just on a whim, I renamed Apollo's iTunes library to "Apollo," and suddenly EVERYTHING is showing up on my MacBookPro when I connect to Apollo....with the "Import" button!

So....yeah....