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Violator posted:Does anyone manually manage song data like Genres? I do, but I don’t use Apple Music or any other form of streaming. I do, however, have about seven genres of reggae.
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Violator posted:Does anyone manually manage song data like Genres? With Apple Music, I have a poo poo ton more songs now and browsing is becoming difficult because everything is so spread out. I don’t need five different sub genres of Raggae listed, and I don’t need an artist to have music in several genres if it’s all the same god damned stuff.
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Mar 4, 2020 09:43
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Rinkles posted:Why does the taskbar shortcut always break after an update? (windows 10) because it's stupid and doesn't just do an upgrade in place, it just removes everything and then generates a desktop icon/start menu folder for the new stuff
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Mar 4, 2020 17:32
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Rinkles posted:Why does the taskbar shortcut always break after an update? (windows 10) Hahaha this has absolutely pissed me off for years.
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Mar 4, 2020 17:38
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I have iTunes Match and I also have all of my songs downloaded as local files but even so from time to time iTunes decides that my computer doesn't have the authorization to play certain songs even after I log in through the prompt. Christ almighty why is this poo poo so broken? Bonus(?) points for Match just randomly not being able to download songs forcing me to dig up old cd's and rip and sync them again. Rinkles posted:Why does the taskbar shortcut always break after an update? (windows 10) It's pointless and annoying but a quick fix, thankfully (remove the shortcut, right click iTunes in the start menu -> add to taskbar.
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Mar 5, 2020 01:19
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Violator posted:Does anyone manually manage song data like Genres? With Apple Music, I have a poo poo ton more songs now and browsing is becoming difficult because everything is so spread out. I don’t need five different sub genres of Raggae listed, and I don’t need an artist to have music in several genres if it’s all the same god damned stuff.
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Mar 6, 2020 04:32
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I have a particularly weird problem with the Music app on Catalina (10.15.4). I am copying a library over from another computer, that itself was an upgraded library from Mojave, and I'm somewhat trying to avoid having to just start from scratch on everything (as I actually do use the "added recently..." views, along with having a bunch of star ratings I want to keep). The library itself starts with "Keep Music Media folder organized". As well, all of my music is split by artist/albums in "~/Music/Music/Media.localized/Music", because that's what the library I'm importing from wanted everything to be. I open Music, go into preferences, and select "Keep Music Media folder organized". It does an organization effort at that time, and moves all of my music to "~/Music/Music/Media.localized". I can go into an album and look at the info for a song, and it's correctly pointing to the new location. I quit Music, then re-open Music, and go to that exact same album and exact same song, and it now errors because it can't find the file; when I decline to re-locate the file, it wants to find it in its original, un-organized location. This is only happening for a handful of my albums, but it's definitely on a per-album basis, and it's consistently the same ones each time. The rest of my music collection is fine and has no issues with the update. (If I do tell it to locate the file, and point it at the new location, it's fine, and restarting Music doesn't change it out from under me again yet) What on Earth could be causing this—and more importantly, how do I fix this problem, as I want Music to keep my folder nice and organized? (Or do I really have to go through that half-dozen albums after the re-organization, tell it where everything is, and hope for the best the whole time)
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Apr 21, 2020 00:02
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So, after finding this Track CPR script to be able to quickly tell how many files in my Music library were broken (instead of spot-checking), I kept hammering at this trying to figure out what the heck. What I found was that if I checked "Keep Music Media Folder Organized", it would then move everything. If I then—without closing Music—went to File -> Library -> Organize Library and selected both "Consolidate Files" and "Reorganize files in the folder 'Media'", it would move everything (except for some things that would be left behind?). If I then—again without closing Music—went back into Preferences, turned off "Keep Music Media Folder Organized", left Preferences, then went back into Preferences and turned it back on, it would once again move everything. However, this time around, File -> Library -> Organize Library does not allow me to "Reorganize files in the folder 'Media'" (it claims "Your Media files are already organized into subfolders", which, thank you I guess? They always were?), but I can once again "Consolidate Files". Doing that, however, is a whole big "nothing happens". And if I go into Preferences and unset then reset "Keep Music Media Folder Organized", it looks like it scans through everything, but leaves everything where it is. Which is ultimately a "nothing happens". So now when I quit Music and go back in, it's once again fine. No issues. Every file found, and Music will keep everything organized, and if I consolidate stuff, it keeps it all in the same place. (This location, notably, is "~/Music/Music/Media.localized/Music", which, okay. That's where everything was to begin with so I don't get it). Even if I reboot my machine, it's fine. I still don't understand what's going on or how that all worked. My only guess is that sooner or later Music decided to actually know where my music should canonically be, and knows how to be consistent about it. (I think the main issue is that "Reorganize files in the folder 'Media'" thing, which probably might have been tripped up on accents and special characters in folder names, I dunno?) So now everything is great, and I really just don't get it. But it now works, so uh, thanks Music, I guess?
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Apr 22, 2020 03:54
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The basic answer here is that iTunes is fine at displaying and playing music and bad at actually managing a music collection and apparently Music is the same way
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Apr 22, 2020 04:04
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My suspicion is that Music is, in fact, just the iTunes app with a bunch of code deleted, instead of like, a rewrite or something like that. And I'm sure that code is an utter mess in there after all this time.
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Apr 22, 2020 05:09
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You'd think they have the resources to make decent software
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Apr 22, 2020 05:13
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When they made the switch from iTunes to Music, about a month later I found I had two libraries as well. Everything new was being copied to ~/Music/Music/ and the old media was at ~/Music/iTunes/ still. I had a similar problem, and it was fixed just by, in Finder, moving the files from the old folder to the new one. I may have even had iTunes running at the time, and using the Get Info panel I could see it even tracked the file path for the songs without a problem. I never got missing files that way. Maybe go to your old computer, do that move, and then migrate your music?
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Apr 22, 2020 13:58
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Just checking, you still can't sync music to your iPhone using different (Windows) computers, right? As in, if I usually sync using my desktop, I can't add music to my phone using iTunes on my laptop, correct? I'm talking about my own music files, not music bought off their store, if that wasn't clear.
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May 3, 2020 23:20
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Correct. One computer only. Unless you use the Apple Music subscription.
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May 4, 2020 14:04
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Or the much cheaper iTunes Match
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May 4, 2020 14:37
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Match is really good if your music is local and switch computers a lot. It has a ton of space to upload your music. The only downside is that sometimes there are some weird file mismatches or something and you have to delete/reupload (non-iTunes bought) music but I've had that on maybe 5 or 6 songs out of 6500+ so it's not a big deal.
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May 4, 2020 16:55
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Since this is my device, I'd prefer to just be able to transfer whatever I want from wherever I want, without paying extra. It's more of an issue than usual because I'm lending my desktop pc.
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May 4, 2020 17:08
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IUG posted:Album art has it's own folder in iTunes, but it seems in the Mac Music app that's not there anymore? If you're on Windows, then maybe you have an "Album Artwork" folder that you don't have permission to write to? Otherwise, I don't know where Macs store that now. thanks on a Mac btw. looking through the folders somehow despite Music.app being set to keep the library folder organised it seemed to somehow have stuff split across at least 3 different folders, from the old iTunes/Media, iTunes/Music and new Music structures. and the new album art folder just seemed to be missing entirely which might explain why it couldn't write anything there. have in the end opted for the "gently caress it" option of killing the library entirely and reimporting all MP3s to start fresh. never used ratings anyway, so don't care about losing that and last played timestamps or playcounts.
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May 16, 2020 20:00
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Cerv posted:thanks For some reason I was able to just move the files from the old ~/Music/iTunes/Music/ folder to ~/Music/Music Library/Music/ folder, and iTunes saw the files without any changes at all. Also, again I have to say how stupid a name like "Music" is for an app, especially for that file path.
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May 16, 2020 20:25
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IUG posted:For some reason I was able to just move the files from the old ~/Music/iTunes/Music/ folder to ~/Music/Music Library/Music/ folder, and iTunes saw the files without any changes at all. didn't seem to work for me :/ at some point in the last year (maybe when upgraded to Catalina & Music.app) lost nearly every track where the artist differed from the album artist, but it wasn't a compilation. like X feat Y on an album by X. track's still in the library, but the file is gone. not even found in a different folder. I should be grateful that going throug the whole library, one letter by day, to fix weirdness like that and and delete poo poo I don't like to has given me a lockdown project yeah it's a terrible name. and confusing whether "Music" in any part of the file path refers to the app or the general concept. "Music Library.musiclibrary" is a funky filename too taking all the other poo poo like moves and podcasts out of iTunes made sense, but I don't get why they didn't keep the name.
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May 16, 2020 22:28
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It's actually all incredibly simple. Apple Music plays your music, either from Apple Music or from ~/Music/Music/Media/Music (as long as there's no problem with your Music Library stored at ~/Music/Music/Music Library.musiclibrary). Using Apple Music for Apple Music incurs a monthly fee, or you can purchase music outright from the… iTunes Store.
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May 17, 2020 19:38
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And if you’re a Luddite and decide you want to support an artist by buying their album on iTunes after you’ve already added it via Apple Music, sometimes it will help fully remove the album art for you likely due to a weird edge case! You’ll be glad you spent that 
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May 17, 2020 19:46
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A question for anyone using Music in Big Sur: Are you able to reorder songs in the Playing Next list? According to Apple, I should be able to just drag songs within the list, but it doesn’t work for me. Instead it does this:
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Dec 5, 2020 15:34
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Yeah I noticed I can't either a few days ago.
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Dec 5, 2020 15:53
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Any idea why my undownloaded purchases aren't showing up in my library? I'm pretty sure they should be available to stream like they are on an iPhone.
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Feb 11, 2021 17:21
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It used to be that when I plugged my iPhone into my work Windows computer in iTunes I could see the contents of my iPhone's music library and play songs from there. Now when I plug it in iTunes recognizes it but the library is empty. I don't use any cloud matching, just regular files in my home Mac iTunes library that sync to the phone. I did some Googling but all the responses were based on either Windows or iTunes not recognizing the iPhone. That's not my issue, since it gets recognized but shows an empty device music library.
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May 20, 2021 18:00
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Dick Trauma posted:It used to be that when I plugged my iPhone into my work Windows computer in iTunes I could see the contents of my iPhone's music library and play songs from there. Now when I plug it in iTunes recognizes it but the library is empty. If you open the phone do you get an option to Trust This Computer? That's my usual problem when plugging into a different machine and seeing no storage. Hopefully its something that simple
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May 20, 2021 19:52
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I've seen that prompt off and on over the years, which is why I always have my iPhone unlocked when I connect, so I can easily approve it. On Apple's site they mention resetting location and privacy settings if you think this is the source of the problem but I'm not going to erase all that just to try and fix this one thing.
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May 20, 2021 23:09
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I just tried out the Podcasts app on Big Sur for the first time and holy lmao. As far as I can tell there is literally no way of seeing individual podcast episodes that have been downloaded but not subscribed to, and there is no way of ordering subscriptions with the newest episodes at the top. It used to revert to oldest-at-top all the time when they were still part of iTunes too; am I really the insane one for not wanting to have to scroll through ~600 past episodes of a show to look at the newest episode’s info?
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May 26, 2021 09:23
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Seems like the latest Windows update might be bugged and results in the "iTunes cannot run because some of its required files are missing. Please reinstall iTunes." error. Better hold off on updating just in case.
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Sep 21, 2021 14:06
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Stare-Out posted:Seems like the latest Windows update might be bugged and results in the "iTunes cannot run because some of its required files are missing. Please reinstall iTunes." error. Better hold off on updating just in case. Anecdotal but I installed an update for 21H1 just last week (KB5005565) and iTunes still works fine over here. Nothing new when I check for updates. This is the Windows Store version of iTunes tho
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Sep 21, 2021 14:25
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Cross-Section posted:Anecdotal but I installed an update for 21H1 just last week (KB5005565) and iTunes still works fine over here. Nothing new when I check for updates. Interesting, I read that people had the issue with the Windows Store version too. I got it from the Apple Update when it popped up earlier today, like I usually do. I had to manually reinstall from the previous version to get it to work again.
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Sep 21, 2021 16:59
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Seems to be an issue if your Windows language is set to anything other than US English
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Sep 21, 2021 20:04
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I read that too, it would make sense in my case. I hope it's confirmed so they can fix it and also because it would be a hilarious oversight.
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Sep 21, 2021 20:23
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This is the company that sent out an iTunes update that would erase your hard drive if it had a space in the name. You know, the company that names your boot disk "Macintosh HD" by default.
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Sep 23, 2021 00:39
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Seems to be fixed now. Just updated through the Windows app store.
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Sep 23, 2021 18:35
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It's still 12.11.4 on the Apple Update thing it seems.
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Sep 23, 2021 20:47
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Okay, the Apple Update now gives 12.12.1 which seems to work.
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Sep 25, 2021 17:45
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A friend gifted me a tv series on iTunes, and I tried to redeem it but the software said I had to accept the terms and conditions, and there is no way to do this on Windows. Apparently this is a known problem where they just expect you to own an Apple device in order to accept the T&Cs. One solution online suggested downloading Apple Music to my phone and accepting them in that, but it hasn't worked. Anyone by any chance found a solution to this?
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I’m from the uk but moved to Vietnam three years ago and it’s time to switch my apple store to the VN store. I’ve cancelled my iTunes Match subscription as per the instructions and will sign up for apple one after I switch stores. Is iTunes Match included with apple one or do I need to sign up separately to not lose my unmatchable songs like old band demos etc? Help appreciated  EDIT MacBook Pro, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV box user
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