It’s not just in the database, or I would simply throw that away: it has been written into the music files on disk too.Īpps like MusicBrainz Picard can scan and identify tracks and help fix this, but it’ll be quite a job if it really is a thousand tracks or so that I need to check. Or maybe it was something else, but it crept up over many months, perhaps even a year or two, to the extent that I can’t just go back to a known previous backup and assume all will be well. I think this may result from my iCloud Music Library becoming corrupted, and the tracks then getting synced down from there with the wrong embedded metadata.
The worst thing was when I thought I was about to listen to some Flanders and Swann and got chunks of Les Miserables instead! You can imagine the shock. And it’s a big problem – there are about five or six thousand tracks in my system, and it feels as if about one in four suffers from this.
Now, I own, and like, all of these, and they all still play, but the metadata is all confused, so you don’t know what you’re about to get. The third is ‘Green Light’ by Cliff Richard. The second turns out, when you play it, to be ‘New Hope Blues’ by George Winston. The first one is actually the inimitable Count. All supposedly from the same album, and all of different lengths. You notice that I have three different copies of ‘Red Wagon’. At some point in the past, I ripped my CD of Count Basie. But the metadata in my iTunes library has started to become corrupted in a way that’s proving quite hard to fix. I think this may have coincided with the Apple Music trial, I’m not sure. They kept my music nicely in sync across all of my devices.īut at some point over the last year, the rot set in. When cloud services go wrong, they can go badly wrong.įor many years I was a happy user of iTunes, iCloud Music Library, iTunes Match and so forth.
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