Apple Music Keeps Deleting My CD Imported Content
Large numbers of my music files I imported from CD keep getting deleted from my MacBook Pro - I lost all my content when I upgraded to Ventura, but luckily I found the files in Time Machine. Two weeks ago I reloaded the content from my Time Machine backup, had everything back working, and when I checked today, about 2/3 of the content now says "The song “XX XX” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" But I searched the entire disk with a reliable file finder (Find Any File), and the files are GONE!
Everything used to work so well, but fell apart when Apple changed iTunes into Apple Music. The current Apple Music seems to only understand how to manage their streaming content, and has lost up the ability to manage my content. Previously I had no Apple Music account, nor an iTunes Match account. I went ahead and picked up both of them, trying to see if this will help or hurt the situation. I'm tired of continually pulling lost content out of Time Machine, only to have Apple seemingly erase it 2 weeks later. Is there really no way for my own imported content to co-exist with Apple's music, and be searchable in the same database? I know these days no one deals with CDs, all everyone knows is paying for music streaming from the cloud, but I can't believe I'm the only one who wants my own music files on my own computer, and not be dependent upon the internet and the cloud.
Help!!
David's 16" MBP 2019, MacBook Pro 16″
