![]() I lost the “Date Added” data, but I’m not overly concerned about this.Only two negative side effects that I’ve noticed so far: Music is now usable, I don’t think I lost any songs, etc. Lastly, I re-enabled ‘Sync Library’ and waited for Cloud Music library to do it’s thing.Īfter a few hours, the results are good. I then re-enabled ‘Copy files to Music Media folder’ and ‘Keep Music Media folder organized’ with no issues, though the ‘Keep Music organized’ one did have to check every file, so it took a bit. Well, it worked! To the one other person on the internet who is having the same problem, if you ever read this, just export your old library as an XML file, created a new library, and import the XML file. I had a last thought that maybe if I exported my library as an XML file, made a new library, and reimported that XML file, maybe it would save ratings & play counts but still behave as if I imported all the songs from scratch? It was worth a try. ![]() ![]() So where did that leave me? Hope to get to an iTunes/Music engineer on the phone to help me track down the issue? Or do #4 and lose my playlists (not a big deal) and ratings & play counts (big deal). Repeated #1 but added all of my music.I don’t have artwork for some of them as it doesn’t exist, and if Apple can’t even find the album to match to, why would it be searching for art? Doesn’t mean that this wasn’t the problem, but… This did not fix the problem. I figured the songs that had been uploaded to iTunes Match weren’t an issue. Manually added missing artwork to all the iTunes Match matched albums that did not have artwork already (according to a smart playlist).Fixed the problem, probably because it disables AMPArtworkAgent somehow. Started up Music with my original library in Safe mode (hold done command-option while starting up Music).Added a few tracks (with ‘Sync Library’, ‘Copy files to Music Media folder’, and ‘Keep Music Media folder organized’ turned off, even though I usually have those turned on). Created a new library (start up Music while holding down the option key).So I tried a couple of things (some by accident) with varying degrees of success. I wasn’t able to find anything on the internet reporting on a similar situation. But Swinsian is a good app to keep around. However, since I use iTunes Match (or whatever it is called) to sync my music to my phone, I really am tied to Apple Music for now. It’s not a bad app, and might serve some people very well. In the meantime, I exported my library as an XML file, bought a copy of Swinsian, and had it import the XML library every startup. Maybe it’s just a few songs or albums that were fucked up, and if I could fix them, I’d fix my issues? The temporary ‘fix’ In fact, there were only 21 unique UUIDs across over 100,000 messages in 10 minutes. I then fired up Console.app and noticed that there were repeated messages, 1000’s and 1000’s of them, all with the form of AMPArtworkAgentğailed to find the SourceInfo for UUID:931AD28D-7A8F-403E-A7B7-D860F6E53365 error:Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=9068 "(null)"ĪMPArtworkAgent RequireAction failure: ("IsLockValid(lock)") “OK,” I say to myself, “I’ve got a number of albums with no art, let it sort itself out like people online say to.” Well, it never did. I learned snooping around online that AMPArtworkAgent is the Apple Music (Player?) Artwork process that matches album art. Looking in Activity Monitor, Music was using quite a bit of CPU even while not playing, but so was AMPArtworkAgent. No big deal, probably just sorting out some iCloud crap. I started playing music with Music, and noticed my CPU usage was a bit high. Their installers took care of everything. I didn’t bother to do anything specific with very ‘controlling’ apps like Adobe.I use a lot of command line utilities, including mutt for mail, installed.I also use iTunes Match (but not the Apple Music streaming service).My iTunes library was ‘ Tunespanned’ to an external hard drive.I finally got a new mac and was forced to upgrade.įirst things first, the upgrade went smooth using Migration Assistant, even though: I delayed upgrading my old mac to Catalina because of the iTunes -> Music transition, and was worried I’d have some problems. I’ve never really had any issues with iTunes, and while I’ve had to do a few workarounds over the years to get my music to where it needed to go, I’ve been perfectly happy with iTunes. Right now, I’m at about 1,300 albums and 17,000 songs. Not the massive collection that some people have, but reasonably well organized and tagged music going way back to the initial versions of iTunes 1. I have a lot of music that I’ve ripped myself.
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