Why do songs keep disappearing from my playlist Apple Music

Question: Q: Songs Vanish from Playlists

That's exactly the issue. Songs keep disappearing randomly from my playlists, yet are still listed as being in my Library, and then some will disappear all together. I have the latest version of iTunes/Music and I would really like for it to be solved already, as it has been going on for weeks. Please tell me there's a way to fix this because it is driving me crazy!

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Question: Q: Songs disappear from my playlist

Hello, now I'm new to these forums and apparently Apple does not care for their customers according to the ones commenting here, but I might get help from some of you users here


I'm having an issue where songs on Apple Music just keeps disappearing. I have my playlist with 411 songs and it has now been reduced to 399, so that means a lot of songs have just disappeared. One of the songs were Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift, I searched for it again and found it with no problem, however if this is meant to be a paid app, then I suggest you get your **** together and fix it. At this point the app is just one big hassle, needing to re-add songs that disappear is a huge job when you have to continue doing it every single day.


If this ain't fixed in a short while I might as well go back to Spotify, their stuff does actually work, the songs there does actually stay in my playlist forever instead of slowly disappearing.



Can this be fixed by us ordinary people or do we have to wait for Apple's slow *** to fix it?


Thanks

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iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 20, 2015 7:30 PM

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Jul 24, 2015 11:58 AM in response to Havoc-7 In response to Havoc-7

Seriously! I had 127 songs in one of my playlist and only had 9 left yesterday morning. I checked the other playlists and they seem to be left in tact. However, a few hours later, they all were reduced to just a few songs. This was on my iPhone.


Luckily, I checked my mac and iPad and the playlists all seemed to be intact still. Whew! I thought to myself, "Must be a server thing on Apple's end."


Then, cut to today, my playlists seemed to think that it was a good idea to sync my mac and iPad to the playlists that were showing up in my iPhone. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?!?!?! I'm not an idiot. In fact, I work in tech and understand that this was not a user error. This has to be an issue on Apple's side.


Hours and hours of carefully adding my Spotify playlists song-by-song to the new Apple Music service and now they're just all gone. I don't even know what to do. I'm just speechless. I doubt that even Apple would be able to salvage the playlists that I once had.


Silver lining is, I guess I could turn my Spotify subscription back on. At least they've never once messed up my playlists in the few years that I've had them. But I really just wanted Apple Music to work.


Apple, seriously?! What's going on?

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Jul 24, 2015 11:58 AM

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Jul 21, 2015 9:30 PM in response to Havoc-7 In response to Havoc-7

I'm having the same problem, and it is terribly annoying! But the issue doesn't seem to be very widespread, became there don't seem to be many comments about this happening. Are people just not creating playlist, or not paying close attention to what's in them? The only thing I can think of is that perhaps the error is caused by the phone playlist syncing with an older version of the playlist on Apple's iCloud servers. I've tried everything, including a full factory restart, all to no avail. I really hope this issue gets some attention and that a fix is provided...

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Jul 22, 2015 11:01 AM in response to Eruedraith In response to Eruedraith

I have exactly the same issue. Random tracks just disappear from both playlists and My Music. Sometimes tracks disappear the next day and sometimes several days later. There appears to be no logical explanation; I could almost understand if it was whole albums or artists which were disappearing but it seems to be truly random. I have tried re-booting my iPhone and removing everything and starting from scratch (not a quick process) but alas no joy. I can only hope Apple read these and get this sorted otherwise I'll not be paying for this!

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Jul 22, 2015 11:01 AM

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Jul 24, 2015 10:13 AM in response to Havoc-7 In response to Havoc-7

The worse thing in this fruit-land is syncing and using more than 1 iOS device for whole music library. Now I have deleted manully all the music from Mac (in iTunes), I use iPhone to play everywhere (home at Apple TV, on the go, in car etc.), and I try to have the same music library on iPad mini 2, but it seems to be not possible to have offline 1:1 copy of the iPhone music library. I am tired, this ecosystem is terrible, it is beatifuly packaged communism and fascism in one. I am from Poland and I know results of — and how works — communism and fascism.

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Jul 24, 2015 11:58 AM in response to Havoc-7 In response to Havoc-7

Seriously! I had 127 songs in one of my playlist and only had 9 left yesterday morning. I checked the other playlists and they seem to be left in tact. However, a few hours later, they all were reduced to just a few songs. This was on my iPhone.


Luckily, I checked my mac and iPad and the playlists all seemed to be intact still. Whew! I thought to myself, "Must be a server thing on Apple's end."


Then, cut to today, my playlists seemed to think that it was a good idea to sync my mac and iPad to the playlists that were showing up in my iPhone. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?!?!?! I'm not an idiot. In fact, I work in tech and understand that this was not a user error. This has to be an issue on Apple's side.


Hours and hours of carefully adding my Spotify playlists song-by-song to the new Apple Music service and now they're just all gone. I don't even know what to do. I'm just speechless. I doubt that even Apple would be able to salvage the playlists that I once had.


Silver lining is, I guess I could turn my Spotify subscription back on. At least they've never once messed up my playlists in the few years that I've had them. But I really just wanted Apple Music to work.


Apple, seriously?! What's going on?

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Jul 31, 2015 11:48 PM in response to wryman1982 In response to wryman1982

Same issue, playlist having 15 songs in iTunes (Mac) and only 13 on iOS. The missing songs don't even show up in my library. According to my experience, if there are any songs in the playlist that later disappear from the Apple Music catalogue (I have one in this playlist), then it simply breaks the playlist. After I removed this one song, the rest of them synced back perfectly just the way the playlist looked like in iTunes.


The truly annoying thing is that this song was available when I searched for it in iTunes (in the Apple Music catalogue), and I could play it on my Mac, but it didn't even show up in the search results when I looked for it on iOS. It might be that some artists and record companies don't allow mobile device streaming, but this is lunacy; to have crippled playlists because of this? I am seriously considering switching back to Spotify, because this is making my life a living h3ll, having to worry about how many of my songs disappear every time I hit the road, and of course if a playlist breaks, most songs are no longer available for offline listening.

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Aug 3, 2015 12:23 PM in response to Havoc-7 In response to Havoc-7

I have a similar problem:

1. The number of songs in one of my playlists went down from 34 to 5 on my iPhone and to 13 on my iMac. All songs that disappeared from this playlist are still on my iMac in my own (general) Music library. One song showed up twice in each playlist. The second appearance had a duplicate title, but the wrong music.

2. I searched my own Music library for a song. The song could not be found. I checked the length of the song on-line. Then I sorted my songs in my Music library by time. I found the missing song but it had the wrong song name and wrong artist name.

3. The deeper I get into my purchased songs, the more I realize that the titles of the songs don't match the proper music.


I realize there are many other members having problems and hope that Apple will soon come up with a solution. Meanwhile, I hope that one of community members may have a solution. Should I meanwhile cancel my Music subscription? Or has the damage already be done!

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Aug 8, 2015 2:04 AM in response to dickfromcostamesa In response to dickfromcostamesa

Just on holiday in Spain - this has emptied out almost all songas from two of my playlists . Apple ones don't seem effected- or one I have with very old songs. Wonder if this is licensing problems ? Have tried trick turning on and off iCloud library but no success - very frustrating as took ages to add and no idea if I will get back when in UK. They have 3 months to sort then back to spotify I will go.

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Aug 8, 2015 2:04 AM

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Aug 8, 2015 1:26 PM in response to dickfromcostamesa In response to dickfromcostamesa

After talking twice with Apple Support, I was still not able to get a solution. Then I did the following to get my iTunes back on my Mac by using my March 1, 2015 iTunes backup I had on an external drive. (By the way, I discovered that I could not access my iTunes copies on my Time Machine, but that is now another problem):

- From the Mac menu bar at the top of the computer screen, choose iTunes > Preferences. Deselect the option for iCloud Music Library. Click OK to accept the change

- On the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: In Settings, tap Music. Turn off iCloud Music Library.

- Copied the song and home videos added to iTunes since the date of my backup, I'm my case March 1, 2015. I copied these file to folders I created in Finder, under Documents. One folder for Songs, and 1 other folder for Videos.

- Erased iTunes and all folders under it, so only the (Apple) Music folder was showing, being empty

- Copied my iTunes from March 1, 2015 to the Music folder

- Clicked in iTunes on my Music Library and then added my saved songs by clicking on File / Add to Playlist and selecting the songs I had copied earlier to the folder "Songs since March 1".

- Clicked in iTunes on my Home Video Library and then added my saved videos by clicking on File / Add to Playlist and selecting the videos I had copied to the folder "Videos since March 1".

I synced my iPhone and iPad to my Mac. Everything is working fine so far. I'm not going to Apple's Music until I'm sure everything continues to work fine for a few days. And I'll make sure that I make a complete backup of my iTunes before implementing Apple Music again.

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If songs are missing from your music library after you turn on Sync Library

If you subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes Match, you can access your music library on all of your devices. If songs are missing from your music library after you turn on Sync Library, learn what to do.

Why is Apple Music playlist disappeared?

You may wonder why playlist not showing up on iPhone.Here is the answer. It is suggested to figure out the reasons first and choose a specific method to handle it.

☹ Errors in iCloud Music Library. It is most likely that there is something wrong with iCloud Music Library, so that iPhone cannot scan or unload anything to Apple Music.
☹ An expired Apple Music subscription. If your subscription is outdated, all the playlists on Apple Music will be gone.
☹ Changes made by software. Sometimes if your Apple Music playlists disappear from iPhone after iOS 15 update, it might result that your iTunes account has synced across the devices or your Show Apple Music option is off automatically.

Part 1. Apple Music Playlists Gone. Why?

Why did my playlists disappeared on Apple Music? Most of the time, when Apple Music deletes your library, there might be something wrong with iCloud Music Library. This is a feature that allows you to sync and share all the streaming music tracks from Apple Music and iTunes between all devices. Specifically, once you enabled iCloud Music Library, Apple will scan your music and replace the songs with its own versions. And then it will upload anything it doesn't know to its servers. In this case, to restore disappeared Apple Music playlists on iOS, the common way is to re-enable your iCloud Music Library, so as to re-sync the lost songs from Apple Music with iTunes on a Mac or PC.

Another case is that your Apple Music subscription is expired, so all your playlists on Apple Music will be gone. You can check your subscription.

Sometimes if your Apple Music playlists are not showing after the iOS 15 update, it might be because your iTunes account has synced across the devices or your Show Apple Music option is off autocratically. To get them back, you can try to update iCloud Music Library by iTunes or simply open the Show Apple Music feature.

Why Has All My Music Disappeared from Apple Music?

Your music may have disappeared from Apple Music following iOS 14 update, signing out of iTunes, and expired Apple Music Subscription. These problems can be fixed in various ways, read on to find out.

iOS 14 Update

iOS 14 brings about brilliant and interesting new features and tremendous speed to operate your device. New features such as Compact Phone Call, Picture in Picture, and Totally new Siri are all part of what makes iOS 14 fascinating.

Unfortunately, the iOS 14 updates is not without unpredictable bugs that cause problems. One such problem that most iPhone users complained about is music disappearing from iPhone, iTunes, and Apple Music Library.