I was having a problem adding songs to my music library from the same artist, with the same name on different albums, so I called Apple support and was told that Apple Music users will not be able to add multiple songs from the same artist to their library, even if they're on different albums. This is for music you don't own but are adding to your library.
The rep said they're doing this because you're only allowed to have 25,000 songs in your library and are concerned people will fill it up if they were to add 10 albums from the same artist and 30% of the songs were the same...the problem is, it happens even when songs that aren't the same, such as ones that have been remastered or live concert versions.
From what I understood, the 25,000 limit is for songs that were uploaded from a user's personal collection that don't exist in the iTunes library, not total songs in their library.
For instance, if you're in iTunes and "add to My Music" the studio album "Slippery When Wet" from Bon Jovi and then try to add the "Greatest Hits - The Ultimate Collection" album, any songs that are on the Slippery album won't get added from the Greatest Hits album, so on that album, you'll end with songs 1-2, 5 missing from disc 1 and song 3 missing from disc 2.
If you're on iOS and add those two albums to your music collection, all the songs from both albums will get added, but if you active the iTunes Music Library on another device or disable/re-enable on the original iOS device, any duplicate songs will get removed.
The rep said they're doing this because you're only allowed to have 25,000 songs in your library and are concerned people will fill it up if they were to add 10 albums from the same artist and 30% of the songs were the same...the problem is, it happens even when songs that aren't the same, such as ones that have been remastered or live concert versions.
From what I understood, the 25,000 limit is for songs that were uploaded from a user's personal collection that don't exist in the iTunes library, not total songs in their library.
For instance, if you're in iTunes and "add to My Music" the studio album "Slippery When Wet" from Bon Jovi and then try to add the "Greatest Hits - The Ultimate Collection" album, any songs that are on the Slippery album won't get added from the Greatest Hits album, so on that album, you'll end with songs 1-2, 5 missing from disc 1 and song 3 missing from disc 2.
If you're on iOS and add those two albums to your music collection, all the songs from both albums will get added, but if you active the iTunes Music Library on another device or disable/re-enable on the original iOS device, any duplicate songs will get removed.
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