How can I get "protected" music files to work with iMovie?

Your problem, hardware or software, may not be exactly the same as that of the original poster of this older thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread, which can also result in you applying the wrong advice to your particular problem.

In order for us to give your problem our proper attention to try to solve it, would you kindly start your own thread, describing the trouble you are having in the fullest detail, including completing your details to show what Mac or iDevice you are using, what operating system, and what version of the application in question.

You should be able to access and use any song in your iTunes library just as in iMovie 9. Is any of your iMovie library accessible from iMovie 10 or is 2425 the total number of songs in it?

It is possible that the link to your iTunes song has been broken when you upgraded. You could try locating it in your iTunes libray and dragging a copy directly into the iMovie 10 timeline.

Do you still have the previous version of iMovie in your Applications folder?

It should have been left behind when you updated iMovie.

For some reason Apple has taken away the ability to use DRM protected songs in iMovie 10.

Matt

It is also possible to replace DRM-protected songs with non-protected ones - see:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5460315?answerId=23442435022#23442435022

for info.

Geoff.

SOLVED!

Locate the file

Make a copy (duplicate)

Move it to the desk top

Import it from your desktop and drag it to the music section

Worked!

Angie, What do you mean by locate the file? The music file? I did that for a song that went with a movie I made in the old iMovie. I found the song in iTunes (in this case the song it 'My Wish"). I did not know how to make a duplicate so i just dropped the song from iTunes to my desktop. Then I dumped it in to my movie editor again. Not sure what you meant by music section? I am 100% positive I am having the same problems you had and my appt. at Apple is not for 2 weeks with one to one help. They are so booked out. OYE! Tons of problems since switching to Mavericks but I am working it out slowly...my 2 and 3 year olds are better at this than me. lol

If you go to 'Purchased' songs in your Library, just right click on the song you want, then click 'create ACC version'

Then go to your device summary - Music tab - Sync Music - Check: Selected playlists, artists, albumns and genres - Under Artists, find your song and check it - Then apply. Voila Done!

Now you go to iMovies and add your song to your movie.

The way I did it was find the song on YouTube copy the link, then Google YouTube to MP3 converter, put the link in, and once you download it to your computer put it in iTunes. It will then show up in iMovie.

Thanks so much!

Thank you, thank you!!

Great!

Thanks!

This is the only thing that worked for me, thanks!