Dude! Where are my songs? (Apple Music on MacBook)

Johnny_L.A
Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:55:31 +0000
Factual Questions

I was going to post some lyrics from an obscure song, or at least the song’s title and artist, in response to someone else’s post. I wanted to ensure I had the right song, so I opened Apple Music to play myself a snippet. It’s not there. I looked for the album. Not there. I had a couple-thousand songs in iTunes, but now there are only 100 songs in Apple Music - which I don’t use because A) I don’t like it as much as iTunes; B) I noticed things like images were missing, which made me suspect it was changing things I didn’t want changed, and I didn’t want to lose anything I have on my iPod, and C) I’m not buying any more music anyway. I can’t find my library with Finder.

1. Where did my songs go?

2. Is there any way to retrieve them?

I really don’t want to dig out 200 or 300 CDs from the storage unit, and re-upload them.

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