Unable to burn purchased music to disc

Tried burning some music I purchased to CD but I get the warning that the music cannot be burned to audio CD because it’s an “apple music song”. I’m running an older iMac running OS Sierra.

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Aug 6, 2023 4:41 AM

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Posted on Aug 6, 2023 5:59 AM

You cannot burn Apple Music content, or anything that is currently located in the cloud. Depending on the way in which you might have migrated your library from one computer to another in the past there is a possibility for ripped music to have been redownload in Apple Music's DRM protected format, but purchases should download correctly. Are you certain this is an item you have purchased? Is it possible that at some point you've hidden the purchase and then added content from the Apple Music catalog to replace it?


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Aug 6, 2023 5:59 AM in response to kd5afe

You cannot burn Apple Music content, or anything that is currently located in the cloud. Depending on the way in which you might have migrated your library from one computer to another in the past there is a possibility for ripped music to have been redownload in Apple Music's DRM protected format, but purchases should download correctly. Are you certain this is an item you have purchased? Is it possible that at some point you've hidden the purchase and then added content from the Apple Music catalog to replace it?


tt2

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