Back when I was last actively using my iPod (2018) I still had my old iTunes setup, about 18k songs. I moved to Apple Music a couple years later after trying Spotify, and did the whole upload/iTunes Match thing with my library. I’ve been using and loving Apple Music ever since, as it’s been so easy to just integrate my old collection with my streaming collection.
The problem is, because it’s all matched/uploaded, it’s no longer linked to the local files. I wanted to see if I could force this connection again and added a backup of the actual mp3s but it of course just duplicated everything. I have too many songs to go through and manually process the duplicates.
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