Apple Music deleting my lyrics

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Apple Music deleting my lyrics

Hello, recently I noticed the Apple Music deleting my own updated lyrics. I added some songs to my library. Then I changed some tags (name of the song, pictures, comments, sorting etc.). I also update lyrics of the songs. At first it looks that it works, but whenever I do slight change in some tags of the saved songs - lyrics came back to default - but only lyrics. Other tags changed by me stay the same. Could someone tell me why this is happening and how to fix it?

Posted on Sep 20, 2025 9:57 AM

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AdamSkava Author

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Sep 21, 2025 12:15 PM in response to turingtest2

Nevermind - I think I identified the pattern which causes the problem. Firstly I have to finalize all metadata (name of the song, album, sorting order etc.) and then I can change the lyrics. If I do it in opposite order or do slight change in metadata after I change the lyrics Apple Music overwrites my updated lyrics back to default. I can live with that. Thanks for help!

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turingtest2

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Sep 20, 2025 10:04 AM in response to AdamSkava

See Repair security permissions for iTunes for Windows - Apple Community. The only thought that comes to mind is that the affected tracks might be purchases from the iTunes Store where, on occasion, the original store metadata can overwrite changes that you've made. Hiding your purchases from your purchase history should prevent this from happening.

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AdamSkava Author

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Sep 21, 2025 2:08 AM in response to turingtest2

I don't think this solution will work. Tracks which I'm speaking of were not purchased from the iTunes Store. I'm using Apple Music in Windows OS (Windows 11 Home). I'm just browsing music tracks, adding them to my library, and updating the metadata via Apple Music (names, sorting order etc including lyrics). Just yesterday I noticed that Apple Music didn't save my updated lyrics to 3 newly added albums. I updated metadata including lyrics. At first sight it looked good - changed the lyrics, saved and everything was as it should be. But then I made slight change in metadata of certain song and my lyrics were deleted and overwritten with default one. But only for the songs of the3 newly added albums. Previous tracks of other albums where I did the same update of the metadata were not affected. I don't know what I did or what happend that Apple Music started acting like that.

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turingtest2

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Sep 21, 2025 5:05 AM in response to AdamSkava

Fair enough. As I say that is the only mechanism I'd expect to make changes to custom metadata. That aside I find Apple Music for Windows to be so poor in comparison to iTunes that I don't actually use it. Too many features are missing or buggy.

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