![]() This is a common problem with NAS devices. How can I stop iTunes from losing the path to the iTunes Media folder on the NAS? Q: I store my iTunes library on a NAS, and some of my music got copied to the iTunes folder on my MacBook Pro when the NAS drive was not connected. Since they are local, non-protected files, iCloud Music Library should either match them or upload them. (Select them all, and press Option-Delete, and then click Delete Song to make sure that iTunes doesn’t just remove the local file and not delete the cloud copy as well.) Next, drag the files you copied to the Finder back to iTunes. Find all the tracks, drag them to a folder in the Finder, then delete them from your iTunes library. You can probably fix this by removing the tracks from your iTunes library and re-adding them. ![]() Is there a way to force Apple Music to upload these tracks, as it is supposed to do for tracks it cannot match in its catalog? Now, since these have been pulled from the Apple Music catalog, I can no longer play them on secondary devices. I am guessing that when I first signed up for Apple Music, these were “matched” by Apple Music, and were available for streaming on my other devices. Q: I have about 100 songs in my iTunes library that show an iCloud status of “No longer available.” However, these are not songs I added from Apple Music they are all either ripped from CDs or purchased from iTunes, and I have all the non-DRM files on my Mac. Does Apple Music work with the iPod nano? And how do you quickly get all of an artist’s music to a playlist? Unavailable music How can you ensure that iTunes works correctly with a NAS? Check out my advice. Why is some music in an iTunes library “No Longer Available?” I offer a fix for this issue. What do Apple Music, network attached storage devices, and the iPod nano have in common? Well, they’re all topics of questions I examine in this week’s column.
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