Apple has released a maintenance update to iTunes 12.2 that addresses issues related to Apple Music, iTunes Match, and Beats 1. The release specifically mentions resolving an issue where songs from iTunes Match would become classified as songs from Apple Music, which would result in unnecessary DRM being added.
The update also promises better performance for streaming the Beats 1 online radio station. the launch version included issues with dropped streams during playback which required quitting and relaunching iTunes to resolve.
iTunes 12.2 adds support for Apple Music and Beats 1 including For You, New, and Connect tabs for managing Apple’s new subscription music service.
iTunes 12.2.1 is available now on the Mac App Store. You can read the updated release notes below:
This update addresses the following problems when using iTunes Match or Apple Music:
– Fixes an issue for iTunes Match users where iTunes incorrectly changed some songs from Match to Apple Music.
– Provides a way to correct a library problem affecting former iTunes Match subscribers.
– Includes minor bug fixes and improvements for Beats 1.
As ever, let us know in the comments if the update resolves issues you experienced previously. Apple has also published a support document for resolving the iTunes Match/Apple Music DRM issue.
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Nice, after iTunes deleted me like 6gb of music
I just wanna delete old radio stations from iTunes Radio that don’t even have cover art anymore.
Unfortunately this does NOT solve the issue plaguing people (and myself) where you cannot add a Apple Music song to My Library or a Playlist without disconnecting your library from iTunes.
you can now add the song currently playing on Beats 1 to My Music -before this update the tune was not added to My Music – be better to have the choice to just add to a playlist instead of My Music
Still can’t log in in iTunes… Can’t use Match or Apple Music…. When I tried it appears “ERROR DESCRIPTION NOT AVAILABLE”… I think it has something to do with 2-step verification
El Capitan is pretty stable but iOS9 is sooooo full of bugs. I’m really disappointed. I’ve already reported like 10 bugs on iOS 9. And today I’ve found 2 more. But I think Apple should pay me or reward me somehow for finding this many bugs.
I’m having a bad experience with El Capitan :(
Really? What issues exactly? I believe you, just curious.
iOS 9 is a BETA so yeah it is full of bugs. that’s kinda the point of a beta………
no. ok youd expect there to be bugs because of the beta, but Apple waited to push iOS9 to public beta testers for so long because they wanted it not to bee too buggy when the public beta testers got it, because there are so many of them.
I expected there to be bugs in the public beta but this ios9 beta is just laughable. every single thing you do shows unexpected behavior. next year i wont be beta testing at all
How the heck do you manage the playlists that were carried over from Beats? I don’t see this option anywhere in iTunes.
I’ve given up on Apple Music for now. I will take another look at it in october whenEl Captan launches for everyone. I’ll keep using Spotify intill the bugs are fixed and untill there is a tool allowing us to migrate playlists.
It still replaces the songs with wrong cover art or it plays the wrong song… Apple WTF?
iTunes 12.2 is in the tradition of iTunes 12. It does not reliably sync my very large and legal music collection. Every time I have taken it in to the Genius Bar, they have the same solution–wipe it and reload all. Well I have done that many since last October.
The sad truth is that iTunes is not robust. Telling users to wipe and restore was fine when there were only 4 and 8 gb iPhones. With 128 GB iPhones (that are mostly full), wipe and restore is a several hour affair.
BTW, I keep my master music library on a Snow Leopard machine.
Still the “iCloud Music Library is unavailable” persists. *sigh*
So lucky for me I had backup all of my iTunes library onto my One Drive, but now that I restored my library, I seem not to be able to reach my movies, tv shows, and music on iCloud. I checked the preferences and iCloud support is no where to be found in iTunes preferences. I’m running OS X El Capitan Public Preview. Is anyone else having this issue?
Anyone else having a new issue regarding playlist column headers not appearing in new playlists, smart or manual. Also, I am not getting the option to Command + J (View Options) in any existing playlist as well.
how can you organize your playlist alphabetically now with this new update?
Does anyone have this issue. When you go to the iTunes Store, tap any content, then hit the back button it shows you the iTunes store JSON data rather than the rendered front-end?
After this update, iTunes removed every song I had that wasn’t purchased from iTunes, which is over 14,000 songs. Thanks a bunch for that.