Apple Music can be such a subpar way of managing your music library. Every now and then I wonder why albums disappear or stop playing. Checking on my Mac I see the albums, but their Cloud Status goes into Waiting, Ineligible, Duplicate, Error, Removed, or No Longer Available. Right now about 4% of my library (>400 tracks) are in one of those states, with no straightforward way to recover (even for albums that I purchased!) — especially if I want to keep the listening stats.
Maybe the people asking for Longplay to support Plex were onto something.
Seven months have passed and #AppleMusic has hosed another 400 tracks and a couple dozen albums in my library.
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Fast-tracked a new feature for Longplay to persist the date an album was added to your library. It already tracked most other metrics of an album. Now I can at least delete and re-add other variants of those albums without losing my album stats.
Whee. Whipped up a proof of concept of support for albums in plain old local folders today for Longplay on the Mac. It's been surprisingly smooth sailing so far.
Needs some polish, duplicate handling for albums that are also in your Apple Music, and I will need to think about how to tackle this on iOS. But it should be in the Mac Early Access builds *much* sooner than expected.
Polish applied and it's all looking good in my testing. Just pushed the update. (Though support for local folders will be a Mac-only feature at first.)