Why do songs become unavailable on Apple Music?

Over 2500 of my hand picked songs from 15-20 yrs ago are unavailable to play on my portable devices. But I can play them on my Mac Desktop computer only 1 yr old (music library recently transferred). All from my own purchased CD collection, which is really old, uploaded into iTunes Library. What is really going on ?!?!

I have the same problem, all my music is from my CD's. Apple have deemed hundreds of tracks aren't available on my ipod touch,

This is the 1st ever Apple product I've bought (and now the last) I've re-synced, deleted, reinstalled etc. but nothing works

Only had the ipod for 4 days - glad it was second hand, going to sell it and use my old phone as the portable player

paulsp1 wrote:

That's horrible, at least mine started working again once I re-synced. Waiting for some comment from Apple, haven't heard a thing.

If you're waiting for Apple to comment in this forum, you can stop. It's not going to happen. This is a user-to-user forum and Apple doesn't comment on policies here.

In that case they I have to also assume that apple has not commented to any of the users on the forum as well since I've seen only one response that gave a apple provided reason, their ipad was still under warranty, which was complete BS and frankly irrelevant.

paulsp1 wrote:

In that case they I have to also assume that apple has not commented to any of the users on the forum as well since I've seen only one response that gave a apple provided reason, their ipad was still under warranty, which was complete BS and frankly irrelevant.

If a user of the forum contacted Apple, that would have been different. You're free to contact Apple if you want to discuss the matter with them. Use the Contact Support link at the top right of every page of these forums.

I only recently created the play lists mostly of music that comes from my own CDs. Pretty bloody useless, the playlist concept if is not just an collection of tracks that I have selected from my own resources.

I had the same issue, and after talking to Apple support the way it was resolved was to select 'Manually manage music and videos' on the PC where the library is hosted (On your PC in Itunes connect your ipad and then in the settings summary select Options - Manually manage music and videos.)

Malcolm

I have another problem. I love the soundtrack from the Tron: Legacy movie and I cannot download the album because it’s not available in my country. I mean what’s the problem are we not paying the same like US? In my country IPhones a a lot more expansive and the monthly subscription is more expensive as well in my country if we will compare the salary from US and my country, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM APPLE?!!!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tron-legacy-daft-punk/21201657?ean=0050087160555&st=PLA&sid=BNB_ADL+Core+Good+Media+-+Desktop+Low&sourceId=PLAGoNA&dpid=tdtve346c&2sid=Google_c&gclid=CjwKCAjwq4fsBRBnEiwANTahcN5CSajH_LiTW0lnx6kasxzXOEquY2U9QcfR92Sz8KwyDt1uBaFIrRoCTPwQAvD_BwE

Just buy physical CDs. You'll have it forever, and most of the time old CDs are cheaper than Itunes anyway. Also, better audio quality. Forget Itunes.

That link doesn't work for me but same answer. Just get the CD from somewhere. Maybe this Amazon link will work:

https://www.amazon.com/Tron-Legacy-Exclusive-Daft-Punk/dp/B01LXDWUGW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MIN44FQ2V5JP&keywords=tron+soundtrack&qid=1568840489&sprefix=Tron+sound%2Caps%2C347&sr=8-1

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.

I have a huge CD collection, NOT pirated music. This never used to be an issue, and with only certain songs on a CD. This seems like Apple’s way of getting people to buy tracks from them, which is extortion. The Apple sites say it was the artist or the record company who have retracted the rights, but I haven’t been able to verify this in a non-Apple site. This is total BS. Apple, do you really need more money??

I did not have to repurchase anything, this was just an irritation. The songs came back after re-syncing itunes with the computer. What has not been answered by Apple is why everyone is having the problem at all.

This is nothing to do with the purchasing or not of songs I have been using MP3 tracks (legally purchased over many years). They work fine on the PC but not in ITunes on an iPad. Even when it has been resynched there are still problems.

come on Apple get this fixed!

I was told by an Apple rep that the rights have changed on some songs either by the record companies or the artists. This makes no sense as the issue of “grayed out” songs happens with only certain cuts on any given CD and not the entire CD. This seems unlikely as with other brands if electronics this does not happen. So the explanation of @music rights” seems to be a moot point.

im going to try to resume my two devices. Thanks for your suggestion.