Imported CDs turning into Apple Music files

Are you currently using Music's features for lossless playback/downloads. This could result in DRM laden downloads for what where originally matched tracks. Also in the early days of Apple Music the matching service would lead to DRM versions in your cloud library unless you also subscribed to iTunes Match. This behavior was later updated but perhaps not retrospectively.

It might be possible, I suppose, to delete Apple Music versions of your tracks, empty the trash, and then attempt to connect the broken entries in the library to the fresh rips. That could potentially preserve the ratings and playlist memberships while switching to a DRM free copy that can be burned to disk. You could test manually with a few tracks. If it works I have a script that might make relinking easier. See FixLinks - an AppleScript to repair broken links in Music - Apple Community.

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Remove the Apple Music versions from your library, then rip from CD.

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I had this happen to hundreds of my songs from when I uploaded my massive CD collection to iTunes over a decade ago. I have scattered backups spanning 8 hard drives that I've kept over the years. Every library has different songs that Apple claims the DSM rights to. Every single time I enable the cloud library feature (which Apple forces you to do if you want to download any song from the service I pay for), Apple randomly assigns copyright protection to 300-500 songs of my 26,500 songs/albums I rightfully own. Unfortunately, I do not have every CD I ripped to iTunes as I did not think this would ever be something that was possible. I have no way of separating the two (my personal music along with the Apple Music service). Anytime I want to make a playlist that includes songs from Apple Music I don't already own, I get the following prompt: "To add songs and playlists to your Library, you must use Cloud Music Library." Once they claim it it is impossible to remove their ownership. I don't know how to prevent this from happening while enabling Apple's Cloud Music Library. Almost all my backups have random songs Apple has claimed and I am not able to use outside of Apple Music's ecosystem or without a subscription; they try to make me purchase it back from them.

I have two separate libraries, one of about 65,000 tracks that is completely isolated from Apple Music, the other of around 11,000 tracks that started as an iTunes Match library, then I converted to Apple Music. The second library has all of my unhidden purchases, and many of my imported DVD rips. These have all remained DRM free. Other songs added from the Apple Music service have DRM as expected. As noted earlier there was a time when you needed both services for iCloud Music Library not to attach DRM to content that you stored only in the cloud, but that is no longer the case. It is possible to use iTunes or the Apple Music app to manage Apple devices without the Apple Music service, but either way a complete offline backup of all of your own media is still ideal.

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