Why do songs become unavailable on Apple Music?

I just purchased music, it plays on my MacBook, a few of the just-purchased songs are greyed-out On my iPad and will not play due to “This is not available in your region” error. This is music I have just purchased. The irony is that with one album, 3 of the 21 songs do play (from the same artist/producers) - I presume it’s a iOS issue and not an actual regional issue. I would prefer going about my business but instead I’m here on this forum at 05h19, not right.

In fact you dont pay for those songs in a streaming service. In the streaming world, the record labels and the artists own the music and can make changes that affect your library anytime. You only pay, in this case, Apple Music for the right to access these songs. This is true all across any other streaming services.

Just tried to transfer music files to new ipad Pro . Lots of greyed out songs. Deleted all Music and app

Restarted ipad . Used Imazing . and put in Airplane mode. Voila No greyed out music so far. It may be an issue with checking song names with apples data base . No contact .No issue. Intersted to see if it works for others.

Yea. I just signed up for Apple Music, and I can’t play some of my songs I had ripped from cds I bought with the error that not available in my region. I can’t even replace those songs from Apple Music, because I can’t Dl those songs on my iPhone.

Could listen to them yesterday, then signed up for Apple Music.

I didn’t even sign up for Apple Music, never will pay for such a ridiculous thing, and I still have a similar issue. I was listening to iTunes on my IPhone, when a song just stopped playing on my iPhone. So I try to reopen iTunes. It has vanished, along wt 3500 of my songs.

I go into App Store, and learn that the iTunes app, is now called Apple Music. So I download it. I open it and most of my music has returned.

Still a couple hundred tracks now say out of country or region. Some of the music is obscure, but none of it is foreign. For example only 8 of the 13 Angus & Julia Stone tracks from their self titled Album will play. Yes there originally from Australia, but there now fairly we’ll known in the States, and why were 5 songs cut. There not singing Iraqi folk music. Still who cares if they are.

I downloaded the songs from my $1000 iMac. I’m not playing online using your goofy cloud., so why should being an out of the area song even matter. Jeeze!

I did and, alas, it sometimes changes the songs that will not sync, but still gets confused and any albums that started with problems still have problems.

I believe it's probably a nightmare for Apple's engineers - they're having to deal with two operating systems with songs that both match and sometimes don't match an enormous database, that pulls from and sometimes adds to, and matches and sometimes doesn't match the complex infrastructure of each user's library.

The thing I don't understand is why everything seems to work perfectly on my Mac and not on my [sometimes brand new] iOS devices.

Weird.

Im trying to listen to some music too ( Pay Money to My Pain - Remember the Name Album ) However its not available in my country, but the rest of their albums are? What is up with that? Region locking for contents is so annoying. Specially when i can listen to this album using Spotify. I'm definitely considering on going back to Spotify after learning about these region locks on the apple music.

I guess it's just to do with Apple not knowing how to deal with so many users, libraries, licences, nations etc that occasionally it gets buggy. Google Play has had similar problems, Spotify less so, but it doesn't seem to have the same syncronisation with old libraries. They'll get through it eventually, but it's a problem Apple has at the moment and things will come and go, at least for a while. Best thing I can say is if you really love something, buy it and back it up to Google Play -it's free and you can put your Apple Music purchases there until Apple is happy for you to access them again.

THIS seems to me a class action. The fact that I paid for the songs and not available? WTH? And, more importantly, to have the message pop up that I NEED to pay 9.99/mos for Itunes music subscription. THIS IS WRONG!! AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED.

I purchased an older song on itunes on my macbook pro. it played fine. on my iphone i couldnt play it with the error this discussion is titled. im on same network (no vpn), makes no sense. i really hate apple. microsoft in the 80s was bad but apple today is worse. why am i not on android and using linux everywhere. im stupid, so im posting here. i want my money back apple, you suck!!!!

If I purchased the song, it should be there no mater what. If we uploaded it from a cD years ago, it should be there. Songs I purchased from iTunes should be there.

How do I get them back on my device?

Tracks on an older playlist may have been edited (possibly only the meta data or lyrics text) to a new version on Apple Music, thereby invalidating the old version. You can delete the old track from the list and add the new version from Search to update your playlist.

Tracks that were once available, may have been retracted by the artist or their record company, temporarily or permanently, for all regions or for selected regions. The availability of tracks can change over time.

Im having the same issue as green.

How does that get fixed?

Well why don’t we get a refund?

...or people don’t want to do anything about it.