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I rebuilt my broken Apple Music library with AI and an old backup

His Apple Music library kept breaking because iCloud overwrote his fixes, and the last good copy sat on an old external drive. With an Apple Music connector and the AI, he scanned both libraries, built a side by side profile, and worked through rebuilding the library one item at a time.

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How it works

  1. Finds an Apple Music connector for the AI on GitHub
  2. Sets the AI up locally
  3. It scans his current library and the old pre-meltdown backup
  4. It makes a comparative profile of the two libraries
  5. They work through rebuilding the library one by one on an offline 2013 MacBook Pro

Why it’s worth knowing

The only good copy of his library was a backup on an old drive. The AI compared it with the broken library and helped rebuild it item by item.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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