Apple Music Library Delete

[Cortney Ruic]

Ihave Apple Music and my library is very junked up and I wanted to delete some albums. The only way that I know of is you click the three dots, click delete from the library, then it asks you are you sure, and then it's deleted. I wanted to know if there was a quicker way or a way to do a bunch at the same time.

I Have an iPhone 6 and just tried to listen to music on the Apple Music app and realized all my music was gone! COMPLETely GONE!!! its just two playlist I had but they are EMPTY. Please how can I restore my music. I stopped using Spotify because I trusted Apple. I had offline somgs and they are gone too. I'm thinking to stop paying for this and going back to Spotify. If anyone can help me????

Just found out that Apple also deleted all of the music stored on my phone. I no longer used icloud because they deleted ALL OF MY STUFF on it, too (ask me how that happened!) After being a lifelong Apple devotee, I'm so angry I can barely stand it. NEVER again will I buy another apple product. I hope people start to realize how they're getting ripped off and the company tanks.

Just happened to me again. Replaced with the 3 free month subscription to Apple Music offer AGAIN!! Even though I had it turned off. At this point it really can't be "accidental". Every time I end up losing some songs. Ironically, the songs I lose most are those purchased from iTunes!!!! Really this is ridiculous. If people own music Apple, you have no right under any circumstances to delete it without very overt permission. I don't want your subscription, stop trying to force me to use it.

Apple is a failure. This is the 3rd time all my music has been deleted. Either through updates or just plugging it into my new computer. But guess Apple didn't think about people buying new computers. I hate this disgusting waste of trash company products. I'm switching to android.

I have an extensive music library, with many playlists built over the years - been ripping my own CDs since before first version of iTunes. I listen to a wide range of music, and much of it is NOT available on Apple Music, especially recordings of friend's music, etc. I've created many playlists on my Mac, and sync my music through playlists (manual and "smart") to my iOS devices.

Issue #1: I subscribed to Apple Music in iOS 8 or 9 (before iCloud Music Library) and had the ability to download songs or albums to my device. Loading files to my iOS devices or to my Mac now requires iCloud Music Library. So i turned it on on my iPhone, which led to...

So, can someone please confirm that my logic is correct: turning on iCloud Music Library will remove tracks that are not avail on Apple Music (#2), and that there is no way to download (keep) a song/album for offline listening without enabling iCloud Music (#1)? Anyone know of a workaround for either issue?

I would start with making sure both Apple Music and iCloud Music Library are turned on in Settings > Music, as both of those are needed to see all your music, not just Apple Music. Here is more info about how Apple Music and iCloud Music Library work.

I don't use Apple music so turning it on is useless.All my music was downloaded directly to my phone so I don't have to use wifi or data! This is the same reason I don't use cloud music. Also the BIG question is WHY is my music getting deleted? It;s great that a solution is offered to fix the problem but now please offer an explanation as to what is causing this to happen. It is not the first time this has happened either. This is very frustrating.

I'm not sure the full picture is understood. Turning on iCloud music library proceeds to delete tracks on your device if they were not purchased through Apple. I think the intent is to give "the best quality" tracks from what IS avail on Apple Music, and "conveniently" keep it in the cloud. However, there is much that is not available on iTunes. Personally, I have been ripping my extensive CD collection for many years, and have many albums recorded by friends and local bands, as well as many audio classes.

I have experienced a similar problem as Cesarion. I have no idea what caused it. I had Apple Music and iCloud Music Library turned on. On Monday night I was listening to music on my AppleTV. I added Rihanna's Sledgehammer and Fall Out Boy's Ghostbusters to My Music. On Tuesday I listened to a TWiT podcast on my iPhone 6. Then I went to listen to these 2 songs and I found a completely empty Music Library. I was very confused. I decided to listen to an audiobook in iBooks and found that it too was completely empty.

My phone had several gigs of music downloaded from my iCloud Music Library. There were some songs from Apple Music. However, there were very few songs I add to my iPhone from Apple Music. I usually just stream Apple Music.

When I got back home and reconnected to WiFi I turned off and then on the iCloud Music Library setting. When prompted to Merge or Replace I selected to Replace the library on my iPhone. I went back over to Music and it stated "Loading Library". Just like Cesarion it stopped with an error message that it was not possible to load my iCloud Library. I repeated this process several times with the same outcome everytime. I power cycled the iPhone and encountered the same outcome. I connected the iPhone to a power source and encountered the same outcome.

According to iTunes the music and audiobooks are still on the iPhone (iTunes / iPhone / On My Device). Although, some of the songs have the icon indicating that they are still getting uploaded to the iPhone. There are 12 audiobooks on the iPhone. None of this content is accessible or viewable from the iPhone Music or iBooks apps. Even under General / About there are 0 Songs.

So I went to update my iPhone 6s with my itunes and it deleted all of my Apple Music songs. I used to have approximately 3,800 songs and now I have only 1,757. I did the process other forums on your site requested us to do but yet I still have the same issue. It said that it could download my library. I am furious. I PAY for Apple Music, I need to know why this issue happens and how can I get my lost 2,000 songs back. I need them. My songs help me so much and it ***** to have almost all of them gone, recent and old songs.

I, too, am absolutely furious with Apple. I am an OAP, quite computer literate and trust Apple completely so I went for a free 3 month trial for Apple Music and 'downloaded' all sorts of tracks. However I hadn't quite grasped the difference between downloading and streaming. Alive I know. I already had my own library of over 1,000 tracks copied from my own selection of CD's. I finished my trial and cancelled the contract. I was then horrified to see that I only had 90 tracks remaining on all my apple devices. I contacted Apple and they said they would help me but I should have backed up all my music before using Apple Music. I don't remember seeing that. She appeared to really try and help me and I asked for a further free trial so that I could get all my own music back. This was refused even though she said the music would stay there for 90 days. I decided to pay for another both and was very pleased to see all my music had returned. I then spoke to a techy friend who took me through all sorts of steps and I realised that even though my own music had been returned it was encrypted so if I ever stopped paying for Apple Music it would disappear again.

Just to double down on this: This is happening to me for years now and I'm about to ditch Apple Music altogether. I'm planning to go "analogue" again, storing my music locally (on my computer, iPhone and iPad separately).

For the know-it-alls: This refers to (like some stated before) music that was transferred from CDs that I own. This can also be a country-specific problem, I guess. In my library many German titles have been deleted (meaning they're still there, but greyed out).

At least once a year ITunes removes all the music I've had from old CD's. It just looks like a scam and they want me to buy it from them. I've kept an old IPod they can't access. It allows me to get my music back, but annoying.

I have an iTunes/Music collection I have built up over many years and many Mac products, from my original G4 MacPro, through Mac minis and now my M1MAx Mac Studio. I also own an iPad and an iPhone 13Pro. My music files have always existed on dedicated external drive directly connected to my Mac Desktop system, that ONLY contains my music, and I ripped the files to lossless ALAC files from my large collection of CDs. But it seems if I don't play the files very often, the Apple software drops the links and I am unable to play the songs over WiFi using the Apple Remote software. I have to go to my office and log into my mac Studio and click through all the files that have gotten "dropped" or they cannot be played. I have an exclusive Apple system - there is no windows gear in our home. I don't want to have to dump all of this to get a system that can store my music library reliably - I don't want to play every song tonight, but if I decide to play something a few months from now, I should not have to reload it all over again for it to work. My phone is NOT set to Optimize storage - I have a 2TB music drive connected to my desktop and I would expect once loaded that the files would remain there and not be removed by some rule that I know nothing about. How can I get this to work reliably?

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