Progress of syncing iTunes library to Apple Music across devices

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Progress of syncing iTunes library to Apple Music across devices

I have a very large iTunes music library, mostly of music imported from CDs, 361GB of 36,870 files. It'll take a while to get synced, I know, but all I'm seeing is a spinning circle and the message on hover of Activity | iCloud Music Library | Matching your music with songs in Apple Music. When I scroll thru my library list, I'm not seeing any change in the cloud icons on various songs. How can I tell if it's actually syncing, however slowly? Also, some songs seem to be done, but it'll be one random song on an album, or several songs on an album with no obvious connection to artist/track or anything else. And some complete albums have made it.

Posted on Mar 7, 2021 8:45 PM

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turingtest2

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Mar 8, 2021 3:41 AM in response to richood

Patience. You can use File > Library > Update Cloud Library to nudge the matching/uploading process if you think it has stalled. Click the activity widget at the top right to get a little more information about what it is doing.

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richood Author

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Mar 8, 2021 6:40 PM in response to turingtest2

Thanks. Trying to be patient. My 55 days of music, per newly activated Status Bar, will take a while. But the Activity widget shows no change over the past 24 hours, still "Matching your music with songs in Apple Music" and a blank circle rather than the partially completed progress one I'd expect (even a tiny bit completed). Scrolling thru my loooong song list, none of the cloud icons seem to have changed.

Update iCloud Music Library is grayed out. Because there's no actual library yet to update?

What's a reasonable expectation for progress?

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turingtest2

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Mar 8, 2021 6:51 PM in response to richood

The process has probably stalled. Shut down iTunes, then try again.

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Progress of syncing iTunes library to Apple Music across devices

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