Thanks all for the input. An update on my situation. Someone at work told me to sign out and then back in to my account, which I did. I have also turned off iCloud Library in Settings, and for covering bases, also turned off Apple Music and then back on. No change. Grant, thanks for your ideas and suggestions. I haven't really used Time Machine on my Mac yet but this situation gives me a good reason too. I have made a Genius Bar appointment at my local Apple Store this Saturday to try and sort everything out. Since I did not find my music on the Mac, which was very disappointing, I'm beginning to think that I will have to establish my library and collection all over again. A tedius process to be sure. I have wondered during this process if one of the changes in iOS 9.3 might have caused part of the issue. I recall reading an article in January, which was widely circulated by the way, about the 9.3 beta. It said that Apple would be giving people more control over their music so that they did not have to use iTunes to manage music as much. I'm wondering if in the process of enabling this control, my entire library was mistakenly zapped. Anyway, that will be one of many questions that I ask the Apple Genius, along with what the point is of having iTunes Match if my music disappeared or will disappear after 6 months. I do have a few albums which I cannot find on Apple Music, but if I can keep a copy of the music on my Mac and carry that with me from phone to phone, then that might serve my purposes. With Apple Music turned back on, I can at least stream albums and currated playlists from Apple, which is tiding me over for now. Though I miss the vast collection. I have started to look into Google Play Music as an alternative, but the one big thing that Google doesn't have which Apple Music excells in are the curated playlists, such as "intro to," "deep cuts from," and so forth.
Sincerely, Wayne On 3/23/16, Brett <brettst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, its pretty much duplication these days. The only reason you would want > it these days is if you have music that cannot be found on Apple music, if > you iTumes match it you can stream it on any of your iDevices. It is also a > good way to ucgrade dodgy music to better quality, but that's less necessary > these days with streaming services offering simelar quality. > > Cheers, > Brett. > > > Sent from Brett's iPhone > >> On 23 Mar 2016, at 2:59 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> I don't have an answer, but just out of curiocity, if you subscribe to >> Apple Music isn't subscribing to iTunes Match duplication? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Wayne Merritt >> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 6:16 AM >> To: viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> >> Subject: iOS 9.3, Apple Music and iTunes Match >> >> 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. 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