IPhone 6 music library keeps being deleted

Every time I connect my iPhone to my Mac my music library vanishes off my phone except previously purchased songs. I have reinstalled iTunes 12 and restored my phone but it keeps happening. I have my iTunes set to manually manage my library. I will spend hours transferring songs from my library to my phone and they may stay on for a few days but then seven times out of 10 my music will disappear again except tunes I bought from iTunes. Anyone else have this problem or know how to resolve it? So frustrated. Thanks

I have had this problem a month ago. I just tried a 1000 things that did not work, then it started working. I think it's because Apple made iTunes really stupid. Pretty sure that's it.

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