Original versions of some ripped songs have been replaced by different versions
I've been using the Apple Music subscription service for a few years now but I've just noticed something that I'm not happy with. I have hundreds of albums that I ripped prior to the existence of Apple Music. I listened to one (the album "Abacab" by Genesis) recently and found that the original album version of the song "Abacab" had been replaced by the radio edit which is about 2.5 minutes shorter. Here's the strange thing: I've never owned a copy of the radio edit but that's the version in my collection now, despite the fact that the album on Apple Music doesn't include the radio edit either. A couple of compilations on Apple Music include the radio edit, but they are technically different albums with different album titles. I tried downloading the album version but it considered it a different album, so it won't play with the other tracks. I also tried re-downloading the full album again but it would only download about half of the album for some reason. It will let me stream them all, just not download them, and there is no indication of an error or any other reason why the other songs won't download. So I have three questions about this:
- Is there a way to make it replace the radio edit with the album version, keeping them all together and in order?
- Is there a way to tell Apple Music that I want to keep my original ripped version of an album and not replace it with the Apple Music version?
- Why won't all of the songs download?
Mac Studio (2022)
