Why do songs become unavailable on Apple Music?

I was able to fix the problem by simply re-sycing. The question remains, why did the problem inject itself? All of my songs were either ripped from CDs that I own or purchased from Amazon, completely unaffiliated with Apple. How do they have the right to disable music from my library?

Yes, that is what I am finding as well. As I go into each album, and try to play a song, and it fades out and gives me "This song is not currently available in your country or region" - if I then sync from my PC, it copies over those songs to my phone. I like that I can fix it, but I don't like that I have to manually do this for almost 4000 songs. Apple should fix this!

Its not a label dispute as someone here had this problem with his own compositions! My problem was with the phone, iTunes on the PC was always OK, when I re-sync'd the problem went away on the phone. Not logical. I did write to Apple directly with the complaint/problem, no response.

Have you tried re-syncing your portables to iTunes on the Mac? I had the same issue but it went away after re-syncing. Apple has messed up and haven't seen one viable excuse for why.

I had this problem, the song played before then wouldn't yesterday. I don't have an Apple cloud account and never bought a song from Amazon. I buy all my songs from Amazon. I use a Windows PC, little affiliation with Apple except for my phone. When I played the song on my computer using a Windows player it worked fine this morning so opened it in iTunes, played fine, tried my phone again this morning, nope. Resync'd the phone with iTunes now it plays. It's quite bothersome that Apple would mess with a song on my phone bought from a different source. Amazon certainly didn't manipulate my phone iTunes data, I don't even have my Amazon account info on my phone and have never accessed my Amazon account on the phone. Smacks of being illegal.

Are there any iTunes users that even after deselecting all music, and reselecting all music to synch, still have out of region music? This fixed my issue months ago. I'll admit it can take a while to deselect every album, and the solution isn't very elegant, but it worked, at least for me. Whether or not it fixes it, it's a programming error, either by accident, or purposely on Apples part.

If it doesn't correct it, considering how many users must have already brought this too Apples attention, the fact that they still haven't corrected the error, is very telling.

Its a bug, you're not the only person to have their own compositions come up with the error. I spoke to Apple support about it, they responded with a bunch of gobbledegook that made no sense to me and since I'd been on the phone with them for over an hour for another problem I wasn't willing to ask for clarification. As said before my problem cleared itself after syncing with iTunes but what it does say is Apple knows of the issue and best I could understand they're blaming it on the record industry. It may be true that the record industry placed some new mandate on them but they clearly haven't implemented the mandate properly.

i Got a fix for this but you need to re sync you’re iTunes to iPad or iPhone.

if you load iTunes and it says can’t be saved shut it down and open till it loads normally

hope this help

I think I figured out how to partially fix the problem of out of region songs. It requires deselecting every song in your iTunes synch playlist library. Then you synch. The recent update gave the cloud a bigger role. Some songs will be there, and others you'll have to download back from the cloud, but once you do they should play w/o a connection. Still your music library will be a whole lot smaller, at least mine is, because I listen to a lot of unusual stuff, that you can't easily find, at least in the Apple cloud universe. I'm going to try selecting those albums in iTunes, and resynching. Still I'm not holding my breath.

This error has come up for a huge amount of my music library. I have almost 4,000 songs on my iphone which I use to teach fitness/yoga classes. This problem began after my last sync with my laptop and stopped me from teaching my pre-planned classes over the last few days. I am so frustrated and angry that Apple believes it has the right to take over my music library and impact my JOB! These are NOT songs from Apple music, but from my own CDs and my own downloads. I am not an Apple Music subscriber (and never will be). As per some of the comments above, I went into settings and into music, and turned off "Show Apple Music" and it seems to have fixed the problem. (Add this to the fact that 2 months ago Apple Music was regularly sending some huge updates to my iphone and caused me to go way over on my data usage. ) I have been an iphone user for a long time, but I am getting really sick of Apple trying to take over how we use the phones.

I find Apple's story hard to believe. Some of the folks that have reported the problem "did" have the CD and loaded the songs from that source. The recording industry and artists realize that the future is digital and have figured out a way to profit from it. Let's face it we're more likely to buy a song we like for $1 or whatever than we are to buy a whole CD for $10 if we don't care about the other songs so they get a sale, lots of little ones, when they wouldn't otherwise. Also in my case it was a song bought from Amazon that continued to work on my Windows computer (in iTunes) but all of a sudden stopped working on my Apple phone so somehow Apple shut it down, not Amazon, Windows or the recording industry. It came back when I resync'd and continues to work so in my humble opinion its 100% an Apple issue.

It’s sometimes about music being retracted, but often this seems to be a database issue - a track will be available on Apple Music, playable on my Mac and won’t be available on my phone. Same account, same music, same everything. Libraries just don’t sync well, sometimes. It’s a real shame and apple seems to have done little about this in several years.

I'm guessing you already tried deselecting and reselecting every album then resynching. This worked for me, but then again as I've learned every Mac & iPhone appears to have different responses to fixes. Unfortunately many problems nowadays, don't seem to have fixes. Appple has changed a whole lot.

i Got a fix for this but you need to re sync you’re iTunes to iPad or iPhone.

if you load iTunes and it says can’t be saved shut it down and open till it loads normally

hope this help

Who cares if it's edited. I am synching the same song from my iTunes library (where it plays,) to my iPhone (where it doesn't.)

Also who cares if an artist retracted it? We have paid for the song. Suppose you buy a cake from a bakery in Sweden, and bring it home. The baker of the cake in Sweden cannot suddenly insist that no-one can enjoy there cake any longer.