Music randomly disappearing from albums

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Music randomly disappearing from albums

Hi! On Apple Music for my Mac, music will just randomly disappear from my albums for no reason. My phone has all tracks and everything, but for some reason, music will disappear from albums and then playlists. This can happen randomly with any track, and I can't seem to find a fix. I've turned sync library off and on again, which helps for a few seconds when immediately viewing the album when it reappears, but when going back into it after clicking off, the issue just comes back. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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MacBook Air

Posted on Oct 30, 2025 4:26 AM

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Oct 31, 2025 3:28 PM in response to MJ_is_here

I've had something similar. All my music is locally stored on the HD and when I go look for the physical files in the Music/Media folders, they are gone! I think iTunes Match keeps repopulating the titles. There seems no rhyme or reason as to which tracks are gone, just random ones here and there. And they are not always easy to find (sometimes I see the exclamation point next to a file name and sometimes it's not until I try to play it). I've had to restore from backups twice now. Music in OS 26 is an absolute mess. So many bugs including playlist folders all expanding when clicking one, highlighting track names sometimes leaves the track name invisible, pressing the space bar to play/pause now causes the files to be a favorite, disappearing playlist time/size info, star ratings don't show up except in the "songs" view... If there was a good alternate to Music, I'd be using it.

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