My original music library is gone from Music App

Hi all, I recently had a subscription to Apple Music, which somehow converted my entire library to lossless, now that I no longer have the subscription, when I go to play a song it states I need an active Apple Music sub in order to play my files. These are files I physically imported years ago with a CD drive, so I am the owner. Why can't I play my library, and if its because the quality was increased then apple should be putting my files back where they were originally when I cancel my sub. So now I have a list of songs in Music app that I can't even play even though I own them.


I did notice that it says at the top of the app that it is trying to access my cloud library, which I do not have on, although there is no setting to turn it off in preferences anymore. I double checked my iPhone and its also off in settings, so where is my actual music, the files are on the hard drive, but I cannot play them because it tries to play the subscription version and download it in the library. As of now I'm just going to delete everything inside the artist list one by one (since you can't select all anymore either). Then I'm going to start up my old G3 powermac and import them to iTunes all over again and copy them to flash drive just to manually drag them back into my iMac's music app. Why is apple making everything harder and less intuitive with every new os and app they update? This is so frustrating.


So how can we get apple to change this? or am I forgetting something? Nothing in the sub policy stated I won't be able to play my owned music after I sub to Apple Music.


Posted on Jun 30, 2023 5:19 PM

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Jul 3, 2023 12:41 PM in response to Cory Schaal

I did not subscribe to Apple Music and my music is still available on my two older Mac book pros. For some reason, I can see the name of the library on my latest Mac book pro but can't access it and I can't get it to sync to my iPhone 14 pro.


What is the problem? I had and still have no intention of giving up MY music which has been accumulated over a lifetime and downloaded on every Mac since I converted in 2005. Anyone know how to get the current Music app to play everything that was downloaded in the iTunes app - we're talking hundreds of albums and 10s of thousands of songs?

My original music library is gone from Music App

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