Greetings all. I updated my iPhone 6S to iOS 9.3 last night. Last fall I had signed up for iTunes Match in order to keep all my songs in a digital locker in the cloud and take with me to future phones. I've done several iOS updates since then without a problem. Last night though, to my utter shock, nearly all of the 4,200 songs in my collection, along with the around 800 songs that I have added to playlists from Apple Music, had disappeared. Over the last few months, I have setup several playlists for different things, like love songs, worship music, Christmas music, and "all songs" which has everything in my collection. It was quite a shock to see the All Songs playlist go from around 4,200 songs to 139 songs, or the Hard and Heavy playlist go from 330 songs to just 2 songs. I've got the 4,200 songs on an external drive, but not the Apple Music that I've saved. I've spent a long time tediously deleting what I don't want from my collection and don't look forward to doing it all over again. Short of doing a complete restore, does anyone have any ideas how I can get my music back from iTunes Match? I'm not sure if this is specific to iTunes Match or Apple Music since I subscribe to both. Whatever the case, it is extremely frustrating and makes me wonder if iTunes Match is worth the time, especially if the songs are going to suddenly disappear after 5 or 6 months.
On a related note, does anyone use Google Play Music and if so how do you like it? What do you like and not like about Play Music? It looks similar to the Apple offerings, except that with Play Music, you can store up to 50,000 songs for free. That alone is tempting. Best, Wayne -- Follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wcmerritt My website: www.wayneism.com My book list: www.wayneism.com/books.php -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
