I have some albums/songs that I can see in iTunes, but I can't find them in the finder, in my music folder. There are some that are there, but one album I have has 14 songs on it, but only about seven can be seen in my music folder.
Has anyone else had this problem and if so where do I find the songs that I see in the iTunes app?
And by the way -- when I tried to post this in the apple discussions, I got a message saying that I couldn't update this content. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Yes! Purchased a new M2 Mac mini Pro , apple display, couple HomePods, and two GEN 10 iPads and received three or four months of Apple Music, Apple news, and Apple TV+, which I just paid for an entire year! Not very pleased with Apple getting us locked into their music format when it was iTunes, now using Ventura you cannot sync your music with your other devices unless you pay it for a subscription to Apple Music ($10 per month) or iTunes match ($25 per year). It does show up in your subscriptions in settings, so you can cancel before it renews on the expiration date. Just put a calendar event to notify you the day before to cancel. I wish it would’ve given me iTunes Match free subscription as that is what would work in my situation best, where I only want to see the music I purchased and my CDs that I have put into iTunes years ago. Be careful if you sign up for one of the subscriptions and do not click in the menu download anything. Not sure what I did but it started downloading over 14,000 songs and I only have 4200+. I had to turn off in settings/preferences in music the second choice sync across your devices. You must turn this on to sync across devices, but also turn it off if it’s doing something crazy to your library(IRS). I deleted my library and reinstalled with from time machine the music folder. So, you have a number of songs listed in music, but in the folder for a particular album is skipping songs, say you have 15 songs for an album, but in the folder for that artist it’ll have five listed. What happened in my situation, I’m both IMAX and my Mac mini pro, a folder was created for an artist, called “Compilations”. I’m at a Barnes & Noble so I can’t say for sure the name of the folder but it’s COM… something, consolidation, perhaps. But it will be obvious, out of place. Inside you will have a list of all your missing, album, names, or artists, and within are the songs that are missing that you see an iTunes, but not in the artist’s folder. Not sure why this occurs, but perhaps someone here can explain it. This occurred on all of my macOS devices. I had at least three sessions with Senior Advisor’s to fix my library‘s, and syncing correctly, across my Mac mini Pro, and 2014 iMac and a 2011 iMac, which still calls in iTunes, however, it syncs with the rest of the libraries, and shows up perfectly in my iOS devices. In the Finder, do you know where to look for your albums and then the songs. Select the final music folder and go to COM. There you should find the folder I’m talking about. Let me know if this is what happens in your case as well. It’s your mess me up for three or four days.
Best, Seth
