Music app, syncing playcount issues

[scarlac]

Hi

Using a mac studio M4, latest macos.
Using a iphone 13 pro max, latest ios.
Using apple music app, no subscription, just my personal music library.
It is now a while that I can't sync my playcounts between my apple devices (iphone / ipad / mac studio).
After doing some research, I came several times on following solution.
Going to settings / General / sharing / turn on media sharing.
Done, I restart my mac, I check my settings, it is off again.
Apparently I can't turn it on, although it first shows it is on.

I asked chatGPT, about my main issue, that I can't sync my playcounts anymore.
The answer is:
"When you don’t have an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription, your music only syncs via Finder (wired or Wi-Fi sync) — not via iCloud Music Library.
That means play counts, ratings, and “last played” dates don’t sync automatically between devices anymore — Apple moved that syncing feature to iCloud Music Library (which requires a subscription)."

Is this true, it simply doesn't work anymore ?

2 to 3 years ago, I took a subscription to music match, to make my syncing way easier. But syncing my playcounts didn't work either.
I talked about with mac helpcenter. They called back 2-3 times a week, to help me finding a solution / solving the bug. After a few months, nothing helped.

Is there any solution.

 

[DinoInSoCal]

Yes, Apple Music is shadow of what it once was. I also use the Apple Music Library to sync my $1,300 iPhone 16 via Finder all the CD’s I purchased and burned on my $3,700 MacBook Pro but, the software is full of bugs. Single CDs on my MacBook appear as 8 different CDs with tracks spilled all over the place. No one at Apple is willing to spend a few hundered of the $4 TRILLION to fix the bugs. The problem is the software doesn’t accurately reflect data cross platform. You see it with the Artist thumbnail images which appear on the iPhone but not on the MacBook and vice versa. It is a disgrace to Steve Jobs memory as this was one of his initial primary goals to put the songs he liked in his pocket… not to rip customers off for music they don’t want or listen to.