Itunes icloud sync post clean up

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cfogarty1964 Author

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Itunes icloud sync post clean up

I have ripped a number of CD's and also music purchased and cleaned up or organized using meta tags (apple meta). If I turn on cloud music library, the documentations says:

WARNING: After you turn on iCloud Music Library on a device, all the music that’s currently on the device is deleted and replaced with songs from iCloud. Also, you can’t use iTunes to sync music with the device. You can add songs to the device only by downloading them from iCloud.

1) Will this delete ripped music and purchased HD tracks outside of apple itunes?

2) Will this overwrite my organizational work? For example using Album and song info, I have organized (largely classical) by composer instead of conducter.

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Feb 6, 2025 08:18 AM

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turingtest2

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Feb 6, 2025 09:34 AM in response to cfogarty1964

Have you subscribed to Apple Music or iTunes Match? The behaviours may be different.

Are you seeing this alert in iTunes, or on one of your iOS devices?

1) Content stored on your computer should never be removed by the simple act of enabling iCloud Music Library aka Sync Library. That said you really should have a backup of your library. See Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy - Apple Community for a suggested process. Music content on a device might be removed and overwritten, but any media content on your device should be in a backed up iTunes library. See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - Apple Community if that isn't the case.

2) Your song details should generally be preserved. The exception is that if you have modified iTunes Store purchases as these may occasionally revert to the original metadata provided to Apple. A workaround is to hide such items from your purchase history. See Hide and unhide music, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and books - Apple Support.

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