Losing my music when my Music subscription ends.

My wife got a free subscription of Apple Music with Verizon for all 3 of our phones. The sales person said, “Click Ok” to use Apple Music. I did. I always sync my iPhone to my MacAir. Then I switched to Comcast Mobile (which sucks). Lost my subscription to Apple Music and subsequently ALL my own music that I’ve ripped from CDs and downloaded into iTunes on my iPhone. (I’ve never used the platform and find it annoying when I’m searching my own music.)

I reached out Apple support who informed me the only way I can now play my owned music on my iPhone is to subscribe to Apple Music.

I’ve owned this music for40-50 years, play it while I work, 4300 songs. Somehow this actually seems illegal.

I’ve owned about 30 Apple computers and every version of the iPhone since they came out and I’m ready to jump platforms.

Does anyone have a work around?