https://www.macworld.com/article/1669513/apple-music-bug-add-delete-playlists-library.html
Apple Music bug is syncing playlists with different users' libraries

The Apple Music app has been arbitrarily deleting playlists in some users' accounts and adding other users' playlists into other accounts.

Over the past few weeks, many Apple Music users have been seeing other
people's playlists among their own due to an increasingly widespread
Apple Music bug.

Depending on how the playlist was created, the action could also remove the songs from the user's library if they've opted to add them to their
library.

Once Apple Music accidentally sends the wrong playlists into someone's
library, it's deleted, which in turn syncs back to the original creator's account and deletes the playlist from there, too.

There isn't much you can do to stop the bug other than turning off iCloud
Music Library, which will remove all Apple Music songs from your music
library.

It's seemingly an issue with iCloud sync, though it raises some concerns
about a potential data leak. Playlists aren't sensitive data, of course,
but it could be part of a larger issue with Apple's cloud service.

The iOS Apple Music app doesn't allow you to download playlists for safekeeping, but you can export playlists with Apple Music on the Mac as an
XML file which can then be re-imported into Apple Music if it gets deleted.

Apple is releasing iOS 16.4 next week as well as a new music app, Apple
Music Classical, so it's possible that any issues are cleared up with the update.

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On 2023-03-28, NewsKrawler <newskrawl@krawl.org> wrote:

https://www.macworld.com/article/1669513/apple-music-bug-add-delete-playlists-library.html
Apple Music bug is syncing playlists with different users' libraries

The Apple Music app has been arbitrarily deleting playlists in some
users' accounts and adding other users' playlists into other accounts.

Over the past few weeks, many Apple Music users have been seeing other people's playlists among their own due to an increasingly widespread
Apple Music bug.

Depending on how the playlist was created, the action could also
remove the songs from the user's library if they've opted to add them
to their library.

Once Apple Music accidentally sends the wrong playlists into someone's library, it's deleted, which in turn syncs back to the original
creator's account and deletes the playlist from there, too.

There isn't much you can do to stop the bug other than turning off
iCloud Music Library, which will remove all Apple Music songs from
your music library.

It's seemingly an issue with iCloud sync, though it raises some
concerns about a potential data leak. Playlists aren't sensitive data,
of course, but it could be part of a larger issue with Apple's cloud
service.

OUCH... Someone's code is fucking up in a big unintended way. The
Music/iCloud teams at Apple are no doubt scrambling to nail down the
root cause.

The iOS Apple Music app doesn't allow you to download playlists for safekeeping, but you can export playlists with Apple Music on the Mac
as an XML file which can then be re-imported into Apple Music if it
gets deleted.

For those wondering how to do this, just choose File > Library > Export
Library from the Music menu bar. The resulting exported file is an XML
file with everything in your library including playlists.

There's also File > LIbrary > Export Playlist, which exports a given
playlist as plain text, which may or may not be more useful, depending
on what you intend to do with it.

Apple is releasing iOS 16.4 next week as well as a new music app,
Apple Music Classical, so it's possible that any issues are cleared up
with the update.

Hopefully it will be addressed server-side.

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Am 28.03.23 um 07:14 schrieb NewsKrawler:

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Apple Music bug is syncing playlists with different users' libraries

Arlen Burnelli, you are an asshole!

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