iTunes Match / Apple Music STILL removes playlists from all other computers if they contain un-uploaded songs.

[lgarron]

• Add a new song to the library from e.g. Finder.
• Drag and drop it into a playlist (this can't be done directly, due to #105).
• Get this warning:

• If you press "Remove from Cloud" (because you're a person who wants to actually do stuff with your library instead of waiting around for hours), then the playlist is only available on the local computer until the song has uploaded/matched. It disappears from other computers in the meantime. 🙄 Due to #63 and #92, this can take a long time, or require significant manual intervention.

In other situations, it's clear to see that Apple Music / iTunes Match has a mechanism for tracking songs that are part of the library, but unsynced. I have no idea why that can't be used for songs in playlists.

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Anyhow, so far I've been able to live with the "eventual consistency" of the local library appearing in the cloud again, even though I've had a few scares about lost data and sometimes taken months for things to be consistent again. However, while trying to organize some music just now, Music.app just OUTRIGHT DELETED THE PLAYLIST LOCALLY AS WELL. 🤦😳😡🤬😡😡😡

Combined with the atrocious versioning/backup/restore support for Music.app (combined with also the fact that I'm lucky to get one backup per day due to #88, which is going to be out of date and also I'm going to have to figure out how to extract the playlist from the iTunes library itl without messing up my actual library), and the fact that this playlist removal syncs unusually fast (so I don't have a snapshot of the playlist on other devices), this will probably be a pain.

[lgarron]

What kind of fresh nonsense is this, Apple? I'm just trying to open a backup of my music library.

[lgarron]

What kind of fresh nonsense is this, Apple? I'm just trying to open a backup of my music library.

I'M SIGNED OUT, APPLE. PLEASE LET ME RECOVER MY PLAYLIST IN PEACE.

[lgarron]

Apple remains aggressively hostile towards opening a Music Library.musicdb backup, so I guess I have to do this the hardest way possible:

• Restore the playlist by hand from very old backups and screenshots.
• Try to find a way to read an old Music Library.musiclibrary without Apple freaking out.
• Try to manually remember several dozen changes that are newer than the newest info I'd find in any backup.