Batch change album/artist info – not working when files are missing?

Some time during the transition from iTunes to Music (or perhaps another time), more than a thousand of my songs got mangled and the links from the library to the files were broken. I have my media located under /Volumes/Media/iTunes/iTunes Media/, and this is also the location set in library settings in Music; but somehow the path for these 1000+ files is under /Volumes/Media/Music/Music, even though that location has never been used, so Music complains about missing files. I am now trying to re-associate these songs using the [FixLinks](https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250002671) script. In many cases, however, it looks like something’s gone wrong when editing metadata, or perhaps I’ve manually renamed folders on disk for some reason (though I don’t know why I would) – at any rate, things like artist and album names in Music do not match the file and folder names on disk. The names on disk are **correct**, and the metadata in Music is **incorrect**. Since this is generally something that affects larger groups of songs, I wanted to batch change the relevant info in Music. What I expected to do: - Select an album / artist / group of songs - Get Info - Fix the data that need fixing - Hit OK - Run FixLinks script and correctly match library item to file on disk But no. Editing the incorrect data and hitting OK has absolutely no effect whatsoever. No metadata is changed if files are missing, but only in that one scenario where I select multiple songs with missing files: | | Single file | Multiple files | |---------------|:-----------:|:---------------:| | Files present | ✅ | ✅ | | Files missing | ✅ | ❌ | This leaves me back at editing metadata one song at a time – which is not particularly fun when there are 700 songs to edit, and I’d rather not have to. ### Is this a bug in Music? Is there some way to get around it?