If you had a Time Machine backup, maybe your old library is stored there as well? Many other sources, like Amazon, will also allow you to re-download their files. Unfortunately, iTunes Match really isn't made to be a backup service in this way, and it can be really easy to loose stuff if you don't have other means of recovering it.įor those songs you purchased from iTunes, you should be able to still see them in the purchased list in the iTunes store, and re-add them to your library. The files were definitely cached on Apple's server, so I still have a little hope. Sure enough, the status says "uploaded", but the process took like 2 seconds. Now, when i added these same files again to my freshly wiped library, it didn't upload them. Update: okay, shortly before this incident, i was adding an album to iTunes in ALAC format which i had reencoded from FLACs bought from - this was "exotic" music not available from iTunes, and the Match status said "uploaded" from all tracks. I should add, ~99% of my collection is not bought through iTunes, so it's not a matter of re-downloading previous purchases. It disappeared from my iOS devices and from iTunes on my Mac without a trace. Today though, in a hurry, i must have hit the wrong button which, in a blink, deleted my entire library from iTunes Match. My music is still stored on Apple's servers. So whenever i feel like it, i select all the music in the library and hit delete in order to delete the local files.
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In certain situations such as buying music from a source different than iTunes, or if i decide to download an album for listening locally, the songs end up on my disc. I don't keep local copies of songs in my iTunes library, instead streaming them on demand via iTunes Match, to save space on the SSD drive.
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