An iTunes bug, not Apple Music, may be to blame for disappearing music librariesSerenity Caldwell has been writing and talking about and tinkering with Apple products since she was old enough to double-click. Managing editor of iMore, she hosts a number of popular podcasts and speaks frequently at conferences. In past lives she worked at Macworld and Apple Retail.
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An error in iTunes after updating may have caused recent Apple Music panic.
After an article went live last week accusing Apple Music of deleting your local music and replacing it with Apple Music DRM-protected copies, we put out an explainer detailing how Apple Music works — TL;DR: It's not designed to remove anyone's local library.
We weren't ruling out a bug, however; after a very helpful chat with designer Robert Etropolsky, whose library had also seemingly disappeared, along with several other reports, we kept digging. And after enough digging, we may have discovered what happened here.
I will reiterate: Apple Music is not automatically deleting tracks out o...
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An iTunes bug, not Apple Music, may be to blame for disappearing music libraries
