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To sell an old iPod, I tried resetting and erasing it. Accidentally I erased all music from the iMac Air it was attached to. The music then disappeared from my iPhone and iPad Pro. But fortunately, my iMac still had the music on it. But when I turn syncing on, it syncs, but after that the music just doesn't appear on any other device.
Rebooting, logging in and out of iCloud hasn't solved the issue .....
You briefly mentioned a “partner”, but told us almost nothing about her/his relevance to your issue. It certainly sounds like those omitted facts may be highly relevant.
Music is strongly tied to your Apple ID. Apple IDs should never be shared. Each Mac user account should be associated with exactly one Apple ID.
I do! But it's just not working (???) I see the synching message at the bottom, but it only syncs a few songs (ones that I bought via iTunes??) but not the ones I uploaded myself.
I used to use iTunes Match but stopped that recently because I trusted Apple Music to perform the same service. I am very disappointed with the cost of Apple Music vs the functionality
Warner in Amsterdam wrote:
I used to use iTunes Match but stopped that recently because I trusted Apple Music to perform the same service.
That explains your issue!
iTunes Match keeps whatever you had in your iTunes collection on your computer, looks for better fidelity in the iTunes Store, and stores the results in iCloud so you can access them on all your Apple products.
Apple Music, on the other hand, relies solely on the iTunes Store to access music. One of the advantages of that approach is any music released today will be immediately available on all your Apple products. A disadvantage, as you are experiencing, is music not in the iTunes Store is simply not available.
Warner in Amsterdam wrote:
But the majority of my music is available in iTunes Apple Music. Shouldn’t that sync?
I’m completely confused.
In your previous post you said:
”I see the synching message at the bottom, but it only syncs a few songs (ones that I bought via iTunes??) but not the ones I uploaded myself.”
So as I explained, the iTunes music should sync as you said it does, while omitting songs you uploaded.
Here's what I now know happened:
My partner had iTunes Match and ccelled that.
I then got iTunes match myself, so this was active.
I deleted music on my Mac air, and then all music disappeared on my iPad, iPhone. So iTunes did me that 'service'
But it didn't delete the music on my iMac.
Somehow it just doesn't 'see' the uses that is on there ( a ton of CDs I digitised some time ago.
What can I do??? I am thinking to export all my music and the reimport it somehow. What is a good way to try that????
Of course each Mac and device is only associated with one Aplle ID. But we do share subscriptions via family sharing.
anyway, I seen to have solved the issue. On my Mac Air I found the music files in a set of folders that Music wasn’t looking at. I deleted the Music file and replaced it with the one with all my music. Then everything started syncing again as it should. Only my artwork isn’t what it should be but will try to fix that later.
thanks for ur help!
See this, especially the “If your device isn’t on the list” section.
View and remove your devices that are associated with Apple ID purchases - Apple Support
it remains a problem. I try to get iTunes Match again. But now I just see this and after clicking Add this computer nothing seems to be happening .....
They are all there ....
The primary question is exactly where your music is housed.
If you do not subscribe to either iTunes Match or Apple Music, then there cannot be any iCloud involvement in where your music is housed.
I have Apple Music and it worked perfectly before.
But the majority of my music is available in iTunes Apple Music. Shouldn’t that sync?
That’s great news! Glad everything got resolved.
Enjoy your Apple gear.
Music not syncing via iCloud.
