new local files method is baffling

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Plan

Premium

Country

Malaysia

Device

iPhone 14 Pro

Operating System

iOS 16

My Question or Issue

look, i used to think the older way of syncing local files between desktop and mobile was bad, until i tried out this way.

at least with the older way, i could go thru a few trials and errors to get ALL the local files synced on all my devices

but with this one, where you have to have the files present on the physical device, it only adds more unnecessary steps and it doesn't even sync all the songs! 

i literally had 60 tracks on itunes and i synced all of them on my device. all those tracks are present in the preinstalled apple music app, but et voila, like magic, almost half of them don't show up in local files folder on spotify.

what is happening? can you people figure out a better way to sync local files? this is so not ideal and seriously, who has time for this?