It was just a matter of time, but this iTunes Match user (who generally sings the service’s praises) just found an instance of the Apple Music bug where Match users are finding that songs have been removed from their My Music libraries. Tracks 1-3 of the Rush Vapor Trails remix are gone, gone gone.
Hey Apple… I want my missing files back.
I sure hope the last backup I did has everything that Apple removed.
Addendum: The bug is dumber than I thought. I organize my iTunes library in playlists. Every song I have exists in at least one playlist, and when I use iTunes, the playlist view is the only one I ever use. When I’m using my iPhone or iPad it sometimes feels faster to find what I want to listen to by pulling up the artist, and then drilling down to the album. That’s what I did when I noticed the Apple Music bug. The full album exists in Apple Music, just not under the artist/album in My Music.
Those three songs appear in about 1000000000 different versions in My Music (ah bootlegs), so I thought I’d search for one of them and see if any others disappeared. Imagine my surprise when not only did I not notice any other versions of “One Little Victory” missing from the search results, but the remix album version actually appeared and I could click it and play it. Well, that’s dumb. It’s still labeled correctly, but it shows up in search but not in the album itself. Right. Dumb.
I then thought, I made a playlist for Vapor Trails that included the album, the remixed album, and the couple of additional remixed songs from a compilation album. I went to my playlists… and the missing songs were all there (“Ceiling Unlimited – Remix” is playing in my ear buds as I type this).
Well… that’s just… Dumb.
Fix this please, Apple. Fix it soon.
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