Subscription to Apple Music needed for my own cd's?

Mickip wrote:

I’m in Music, Library, Albums when I click on the album picture to play, it says I need a subscription. Every song in the list for each album is doubled. One in regular print, one is slightly shaded Same iMac for years. The only thing I’ve done lately is purchase a new album via iTunes store and sync to my phone. Then all the doubles appeared. I had a free month of apple music but it’s over.

That provides some context. While you had the free trial for Apple Music, did you enable Sync Library?

Go to the Music menu at the top, Settings ➜ General ➜ and make sure Sync Library is not checked. Uncheck it if it's checked. Technically once the Free trial ended, anything from the iCloud music library / Apple Music subscription's music library should have been removed.

The issue, here is why you are getting a second copy of the song from the Apple Music catalog. If you enabled the Sync Library option on another device, it might have matched the songs from there and made them available on the Mac. Since these are Apple Music catalog matches they require the subscription to work.

Your original tracks it seems are still there and playable in addition to the other subscription tracks.

If the Apple Music subscription service based duplicates do not eventually disappear on their own, you may need to use something like Dupin, to remove them.

click here ➜ https://dougscripts.com/apps/dupinapp.php#sysreq

You don't need an Apple Music subscription to listen to your own music.

How are you accessing the album exactly?

Are you looking for it in the "Your Library" section? Or on Apple Music?

Where are you seeing these duplicates?

Without subscription, there's no way to add songs from the Apple Music catalog, so not sure how they would be duplicated.

You'll need to be very clear where you are seeing these duplicates and how you are attempting to access your own library.

Is this a new Mac? Did you transfer your library to it?

When did this start?

If you right click on one of the duplicated songs and then on Get Info, where does it tell you it's located?

Glad it worked out.

Mickip wrote:

I don’t appear to have the Sync Library option under Settings ➜ General ➜

That usually requires an active Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription for it to appear. since your trial has ended the option would no longer be there. Was just a possibility if it still though the trial was active and was trying to get those tracks fro some reason.

Anyway, glad it got sorted.