I was having some issues with my Music library: most tracks had the same (wrong!) album cover art, the media was split between an old iTunes folder structure and the new Music folder structure, and Music itself popped up with an announcement that the database was corrupt. So I backed all the music up to an external drive, exported an xml file to later recover the playlists, and erased the Music library structure. Then I held down option key and clicked on the Music icon, which gave me the option to create a new library.
I run into the same problem each time I try to import my tracks from the backup: part way into the ingest process I'll see that it is pulling down 2000+ old podcasts from the iTunes era over the network! This is some kind of legacy from back when iTunes handled both musical tracks and podcasts, apparently. I've tried all kinds of things to stop this behavior: there were some podcasts in the iTunes folder structure, so I deleted them; I deleted the Library/Caches/com.apple.Music cache folder; I signed out of my account in Music. I've deleted library after library in my Music folder to start over clean a dozen times. 'rm -Rf ~/Music/Music' has really become my go-to these past few evenings.
My music tracks are 99% MP3's ripped from CD. What I've noticed is this: if I drag and drop a folder of MP3's onto the Music icon, they are imported without issue and I get no podcasts. However... there are a few tracks in my old iTunes > iTunes Music > Music folder that were purchased from Apple way back in the day. They are .m4a files. Somehow importing those tracks causes Music to go query Apple's servers, where it is apparently recorded that back in the day I 'purchased' those old podcast episodes, and they get downloaded like songs. It's maddening. Has anyone else run into this craziness?!?
I run into the same problem each time I try to import my tracks from the backup: part way into the ingest process I'll see that it is pulling down 2000+ old podcasts from the iTunes era over the network! This is some kind of legacy from back when iTunes handled both musical tracks and podcasts, apparently. I've tried all kinds of things to stop this behavior: there were some podcasts in the iTunes folder structure, so I deleted them; I deleted the Library/Caches/com.apple.Music cache folder; I signed out of my account in Music. I've deleted library after library in my Music folder to start over clean a dozen times. 'rm -Rf ~/Music/Music' has really become my go-to these past few evenings.
My music tracks are 99% MP3's ripped from CD. What I've noticed is this: if I drag and drop a folder of MP3's onto the Music icon, they are imported without issue and I get no podcasts. However... there are a few tracks in my old iTunes > iTunes Music > Music folder that were purchased from Apple way back in the day. They are .m4a files. Somehow importing those tracks causes Music to go query Apple's servers, where it is apparently recorded that back in the day I 'purchased' those old podcast episodes, and they get downloaded like songs. It's maddening. Has anyone else run into this craziness?!?