More Music in U.S. than Mexico

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More Music in U.S. than Mexico

So I recently subscribed for Apple Music, an decided to add music I already had in Spotify to "complete" my library so far. First I noticed that some Black Keys albums are missing, and then some Eric Clapton albums too. Why is there music missing in a music service I'm paying for. Why separate music availability in regions? I thought that maybe if I change my Apple ID region I might have access to this music, but a pop up prompt told me that in order to change I must cancel my Apple Music subscription...

Could the music in the U.S. be added to the Mexico library and vise versa?why separate music by region. Music should be world wide, and we are all paying roughly the same amount.

Posted on Jan 6, 2020 3:26 PM

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Niel

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Jan 6, 2020 3:34 PM in response to francisgoca

Because Apple needs to obtain permission from the copyright holder for each country separately; if someone buys and downloads a song, it'll be available to them worldwide.

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Jan 6, 2020 3:45 PM in response to Niel

I get that, but Spotify has those albums. I've never seen a missing album on Spotify (unless artist actively pulls them because they don't like streaming their music, aka the black keys, which my pretty sure they made everything available before the release of their latest album)

Even Tidal has them, Apple seems to be the only streaming platform with this issue. And Apple is much bigger than Spotify or Tidal. This should be a non-issue to them.

And if I have to buy every album Apple doesn't have then it kind of defeats the purpose of a streaming subscription service.

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