u/Blitz_Cringe

Need help with missing lyrics after icloud library sync

I moved to apple music a couple weeks ago, i imported my spotify library and everything worked fine, but a couple of albums was missing so I enabled iCloud library for my long living iTunes library. After the sync live lyrics, animated art and lossless quality options on mobile was gone for a lot of songs (not all tho). My guess is that apple music app prioritizes version uploaded from my pc over one from apple servers for some song. But selection of said song doesn’t make sense to me, since i could upload entire album through iCloud library and only half of tracks have live lyrics (i checked, before the sync every track had apple music features). Why is that inconsistency happening and how could I choose which songs streams which version ?

I am using:

iTunes for windows (not latest version, but fairly new, somewhere from 2025)

Latest Apple music on ipad running ios 18.7.8

Latest apple music app from play store for android 13

Region is Armenia

Behavior between mobile apps seems consistent to me. Itunes seems to use local file whenever is possible (however some artworks got messed up after sync)

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u/Blitz_Cringe — 7 days ago