Music in iCloud seems to have some corrupted files - any way to force refresh of whole library?
My issue is similar to this one (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251341142?answerId=252610225022#252610225022) in that some of my music library that I've uploaded/synced to iCloud to listen to on all my devices appear to be corrupted. I get an error message that says "this media may be damaged." Aside from the fact that these tracks appear to all be ones that I ripped from CDs or otherwise added to iTunes myself (i.e. - I haven't seen any that were purchased from iTunes and definitely none that were added via Apple Music), I don't seem to see any similarities between them or other way to predict which are affected (i.e. - sometimes whole albums, sometimes one or two tracks from an album, no length or genre or other similarities).
On my iMac, where my library lives, I can play the tracks just fine, so I know that there is no actual problem with the files themselves, but perhaps the version that lives in the cloud has somehow been corrupted? Further, I can fix this by dragging the track out of the music app on my desktop, then deleting from the library and replacing it by dragging it back. This triggers a re-upload of the tracks and they are again playable via my iPhone, iPads, and MacBook as expected.
I don't want to have to do this for each track every time one comes up (once again, the appear to be completely random) as the is time consuming and also has the side effect of making play count, "loved" status, etc. vanish as this metadata was associated with the now deleted version of the track.
What I'd like to do is simply refresh the library that lives in iCloud (hopefully without dragging everything to my desktop and re-importing everything). I wouldn't mind waiting a day or two for my whole library to re-upload (I'm talking about 120GB and 16k individual items), but is there a way to do that without:
- Losing any local data
- Losing Apple Music tracks I've added (they aren't downloaded to my computer anyway, so I don't imagine this would be affected)
- Losing metadata ("loved" status, play count, etc.)
Is this as simple as turning sync off and back on? I've been afraid to try that, though it didn't seem to work for the poster in the link above anyway...
Otherwise, could there be a way to test the tracks in the cloud and only replace the corrupted ones?
Thanks!
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 10.15