Why do songs become unavailable on Apple Music?

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 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.

I’m even having problems on my Mac. I attempted to download a soundtrack, recently. Some songs wouldn’t allow it.

Someone told me it’s a copyright issue, but the same songs were available on different albums for download. I was able to create the soundtrack from different albums - ridiculous.

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.

I deleted the album where half were greyed out on my iPhone by removing from library. Then searched for the album again from iTunes and added it and all tracks downloaded. Done it on various albums now and all sorted

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.

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!!!!

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.

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?

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.

I noticed a large assortment of my albums had this problem. All of which were marked as Compilations. I went in and unchecked them as Compilation Albums and poof. Fixed. Not a perfect fix, cause I can’t use Compilations. But at least I can listen to the tracks.

I'd like to know how this is suddenly happening on my iPhone with songs that I've made myself and added to my library....

What kind of sh*te is that...??????

Over the last week, this has happened to over a dozen EPs. Is Apple in a dispute with a bunch of labels? I will prob cancel Apple Music and use Spotify, since these EPs are still available there.