Missing album in Music app on macOS

[nicholasg]

I'm on macOS 10.15.4. I have a fairly large library c. 34k songs. 

 

I noticed something pretty strange. When I look in the file system I can see a folder in ../Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/ and within the folder 3 songs which I loaded into the Music app last week, but I can not find it when using the Music GUI.

 

I could copy the files, delete them and then reload then via the "Automatically Add to Music" folder, but I'm worried that this may cause some sort of corruption in the Music database. 

 

Anyone have any other suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Nicholas

[cambridgehank]

I am still having a few Catalina/Music App problems.   This document helped me  Change where your music files are stored on Mac

[kirkmc]

Just drag the files onto the top of the sidebar in the Music app, or onto a playlist. Apparently they didn't get added when you did it last week. 

[nicholasg]

I can tell they were added because when I look at them in Finder I can see the tags and artwork I added in the Music App.

 

They just seem to have disappeared from the Music app at some point.

[kirkmc]

They got added to your Mac, but apparently not to the Music app. So just re-add the files to the Music app. 

[nicholasg]

This is what I ended up doing: -

 

1) Exported my library.xml (File -> Library -> Export library)

 

2) Opened in TextEdit

 

3) Looked for the missing files. Could not find them

 

4) Added files back to Music app

 

They are now in the Music app. Still not sure how they got removed for the app.

[kirkmc]

As I said, the files weren't added. So you re-added them. I think you could have just done that without spelunking and you would have saved some time. (To be fair, you may have a lot of time on your hands right now...)

[nicholasg]

The files were added to the Music app. You can see from the screen shot they have a bunch of tags and album art work that was added in the Music app. Those tags and the art work where not in the ripped files.

 

Agreed about the amount of time available 😉