Music Library Tracker

Lots of behind the scenes changes going on Metadata id3 tags etc. are finally being properly edited, either the studios finally got their act together and or Apple has got their act together and his properly getting the catalog tagged. Hooray 🥳 I bought it to see what of my iTunes match albums were being upgraded to special audio, but the big thing is seeing how the wrong meta-data that’s been there for years is being corrected. I gave up on manually editing meditated for my iTunes match stuff because so much of it was wrong in Apple/iTunes/Apple Music. This app allows me to see that it’s finally being edited properly. Bought app in January 2023.

I’m so thankful for an app like this that helps me keep track of when tracks get pulled so I can go and fix the Apple Music corruption issue or delete and add the re-release. However because of Apple Music’s (idiotic) tradition to delete songs from playlists when the song is deleted from the user’s library, I was wondering if there could also be a playlist tracking feature that would keep track of when songs are removed from a user’s playlist? It would help for both the issue I described above, so that a user could restore their playlists to before if they had to delete and re-add a release for whatever reason. And it would also help if a playlist has non-library tracks in it that eventually get removed. Of course, I understand if the current APIs do not allow for this.

While this app has some performance issues here and there (slow scrolling or freezing) among other issues (case changes like of to Of can be noisy), it works. It does the job. And that’s awesome. It’s so annoying and disappointing when tracks are removed from Apple Music. It’s worse when I go to play something and I can’t because it’s not there and I have no idea. Now at least I know when it happens and to exactly which tracks before I hit a wall for my listening mood. I can then proactively find the tracks elsewhere and get them back into my library. The daily summary notifications are great. It works in the background and tells me what happened every morning. I love this app and hope it sticks around forever.