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After this recent software update 17.1.1, a few of the music I save in my music playlist have been “unavailable in your country/region”. But I can listen to it when it’s not saved in my playlist. And it’s a certain artist to the point that all of their songs I added to my playlist aren’t available. Is it something to do with business or is there some sort of error. I want my music back 😢
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 17
So I talked to an Apple representative and they made me go through some steps in terms of changing my country/region. It told me I needed to cancel my music subscription in order to look at the country/region settings 🫤 (like wth) after that, they told me to-
I followed those steps and waited til my Apple Music synced back and everything is back to normal. Annoying that it isn’t even something business related with the artists and that I (ME) had to fix it like that.
So I talked to an Apple representative and they made me go through some steps in terms of changing my country/region. It told me I needed to cancel my music subscription in order to look at the country/region settings 🫤 (like wth) after that, they told me to-
I followed those steps and waited til my Apple Music synced back and everything is back to normal. Annoying that it isn’t even something business related with the artists and that I (ME) had to fix it like that.
I am seeing this as well but only with albums I have ripped from purchased CDs. It s almost like Apple is trying to force me to only use music bought from them. I really hope that's not what's really happening. I have tried logging out of my apple id and back in, restarting the phone, removing and readding my phone's network setings, resyncing the phone to my mac, and I made sure my region is still set to US which it is. I can listen to every thing fine on my iMac, this is only happening on my iphone. I can't find a way to get it to play the songs that say "unavailable in your country/region" andf I really want to be able too.
I have the same issue. However I can play via my pc and iPhone but not iPad which is greyed out and comes up with “this song is not currently available in your country region”
The issue of a song not available in my country/region is extremely annoying, especially since it is a song I have purchased and have been playing it on my iPhone for years.
I already tried changing from my US region to the same US region and it didn't help. I don't have a music subscription these are ripped CD's. So I guess my issue doens't have the same cause as yours. Guess I'll have to find time to call them to find out if they are just being greedy and and trying to force us to buy music from them now instead of from my ripped purchased CDs. I prefer CDs since they are immune to artist/label disputes. Really hoping there's a fix and its not about greed.
Did you ever find a resolution to your issue? I suspect I'm having the same problem. I don't remember but at one point I did have CD music AND iTunes purchased music on my phone and it all played fine for years. Then just recently, about 1/4 of my music became 'grayed out' and gave me the "This song is not currently available in your country or region" message when I tried to access them. I don't know for certain which songs were from CD's and which were downloaded via iTunes. Case in point would be Metallica songs. I have about 10 and half of them are grayed out, so I'm not certain it's an artist/business issue. In any case, did anyone discover a workaround/solution?
That is the worst part in my opinion. Having paid for the song and then having it become suddenly unavailable for no explainable reason. I feel like I was robbed. I don’t recall signing or agreeing to anything that said this would be possible.
I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it, that fixed some of it. I then reripped a CD that couldn't play anymore and that seems to have fixed the rest, no idea why.
Music becoming unavailable suddenly.
