Is there a way to impose my own metadata on "iCloud Status = Apple Music" songs? iTunes overwrites it.
This is a followup to http://help.beatunes.com/discussions/questions/14942-how-to-copy-up... .
I discovered that, at some point this summer, several "Year" values have been overwritten in iTunes. Example: the song "Save me" by Silver Convention:
- In iTunes, the song comes from Apple Music → https://music.apple.com/ca/album/disco-divas/960604829 (Compilation album dated 2014)
- Earlier this summer, in BeaTunes, I had changed the year to 1975. BT would've synced back upon closing.
- When I opened BT today, it prompted me to sync. I did. The song now has the year 2014 again.
More info:
- 90% of the playlist's songs have an iTunes "iCloud Status" = "Apple Music".
- BT Preferences > General > Music Library is "iTunes: […] iTunes Music Library.xml"
Is there a way to either:
- Prevent iTunes from overwriting metadata on songs from Apple Music?
- Or periodically overwrite my own metadata? (e.g. save playlist from BeaTunes to some external file and periodically reload that file and sync back to iTunes)
Basically, I'm trying to keep the years accurate in a "Blaq's disco deep cuts (by year)" manual playlist.
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1 Posted by blaq on 25 Sep, 2020 10:13 PM
Update: I had 109 songs in my iTunes playlist; now, both BeaTunes and iTunes show 57 songs.
What is BeaTunes's compatibility with playlists containing Apple Music songs?
Support Staff 2 Posted by hendrik on 26 Sep, 2020 10:32 AM
Not that I know of.
Not really.
In an iTunes-based library, beaTunes will always attempt to show exactly what iTunes shows. That is what happens during "synchronization": beaTunes imports all changes from iTunes.