I can live with this provided my local files in my iTunes Library are not revised in any way by ID tags or album art. I realize when I enable this feature on my iPhone, there will very likely be many mismatched songs. Painstakingly overcame all the duplicates, errors, and incompatible files so that everything in iTunes reads Matched or Uploaded. I have just started my Apple Music trial and put my 22,400+ track library at risk here. I have read a lot of horror stories and fear spreading posts in various forums over a number of years going back to iTunes Match (which may or may not still exist as a separate service not even sure *confusing, yes*). Is iCloud Music Library or iTunes somehow forcing this on users? I'll say that these services are confusing though, but I would never compromise my originals. Your personal offline library is your personal offline library. I am confused as to why anybody would delete or 'replace' their originals with DRM copies after integrating with iCloud Music Library/Apple Music. The solution seems to be this:ġ) force download of all my private music from the iCloud libraryģ) delete and reimport the CD with the replaced tracksĤ) And of course, cancel my Apple Music subscription. Just a small number of tracks have been override by iTunes store versions. Thankfully, the majority of my songs match those in the itunes store. I need to turn the library back to see them again. All my private songs have been uploaded to this 'iCloud Music Library'.

Only the purchases from iTunes Store remain. The problem is that when U turn off 'iCloud Music Library', all my private songs disappear. I must have foolishly chosen 'Merge' when asked. Choose Merge to add the songs currently on your device to your library.* If you select Replace, the music on your device is replaced with your Apple Music library.' 'if you already have music on your device, you'll be asked if you want to Merge or Replace the music. Note Check your Apple Music library settings - Apple Support actually warns you about that: One guy on Reddit was complaining that he had lost a vast number of live recordings that way. Very different.Ī bit of googling confirmed that this is what Apple Music does: it essentially activates the iTune Match functionality and silently replaces all your songs from whatever is in the iTunes store. The one from the CD was a live performance, the new one was a studio recording. Then I got home, turned up my Mac and went to listen to the same track. I was listening to a track while driving (from my iPhone through the car audio). Over time I have uploaded a number of CDs to my iTunes library on my Mac, and synced on my iPhone. I just subscribed to Apple Music as a trial.

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