Can't play a song I own without Apple Music subscription

I have a large library of music y=that I have collected over the years. 30G. I do not want a subscrition as I own all of my music. All of my music is greyed out and I cannot play it after I synced it all to my iphone. The only music that I can use is what I bought from itunes.

If this is not a mistake and this is working as intended I am leaving itunes after over a decade of use! 😟

Severely unhappy!

Can't believe it's been almost 3 years and this problem is still not solved! Someone please see my thread and help Can't play directly a certain song? (Music app problem!) The Apple Music recommending screen keeps popping up even though it's my song I have synced from my itunes?

I had this issue as well, where my free trial had run out and all my bought music disappeared. To fix this, Click on your name at the top right of iTunes (unless you do it on your iPhone, then just go to Purchased), then click "Purchased". Re-download any content you want from there. Hope this helps 🙂

I am experiencing the same issue. Hundreds of songs I have ripped from CD's I own are not playable now that the Apple Music trial has expired. This is not only infuriating but it also shows disregard for the user experience. I would appreciate any help, if there is a solution to this, other than reseting my iPhone, creating a new iTunes library on my Mac and resyncing. It has to be a better way.

I cannot download my music which i bought in the iTunes store to my iphone either...

combine the seriously annoying interface of the new music app and this annoyance, i start wondering why i still have an iphone...

how hard can it be to just copy rdio's or spotify's interface, highly specialised copycatting should also be in these guys' curriculum, shouldn't it

LET ME GET THIS STRAIT, IF I DON'T HAVE A APPLE MUSIC SUBSCRIPTION OR MEMBERSHIP I CAN'T EVEN SYNC MY MUSIC TO MY PHONE??? BTW I HAVE 24HRS TRYING TO GET THIS WORK, I HAVE THE LATEST ITUNES AND IOS... ANY EXPLANATION???... AND YES I TRY EVERYTHING...

I have the same issue. It would not let me log in to itunes until I agreed to their new terms. So I agreed. Now it says I can't get my music because it is in the cloud and its theirs. I put all my vinyl in itunes. I put all my mothers 50's and 60's music in itunes. I spent HUNDREDS of hours putting MY music in itunes and because I tried Apple Music now they own MY music. But now for the other problem. It will not let me update my phone until I accept the terms of the new agreement. Obviously I do not want to lose those songs as well so I do not update. But now I can not update my email of bank apps either until I accept their new terms. I have had their products from the beginning and this is how we are rewarded. I got an ipod in 2007 and a new phone every two years, now if I continue I will lose my music that took me a lifetime to collect. I do not want to give up the iphone or itunes but I do not feel I should have to pay $10 a month in perpetuity either. I called Apple several times and was hung up on 3 times and finally a woman told me that I agreed to these terms so there was nothing they could do for me. So where does that leave us with Apple products?

This solution worked for me on my Mac: In iTunes, while signed in to your account, click on Account > Purchases (or Family Purchases). When you see the list of music you purchased, painstakingly click the download link at the far right for each song, one at a time, until you are carted off to the madhouse. If you wisely only purchased a handful of songs, you should survive the process without developing carpal tunnel syndrome. If, like me, you have thousands of songs you want to reclaim, run the math to decide if subscribing to Amazon Prime is cheaper than surgery.

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Like we’re held hostage.

Why doesn’t Apple have answers to their own problems.

Relying on the “community” is unacceptable. Clean up your own problems.

Apple sukgs big f’n dich. F u c k apple

I never subscribed to Apple Music in the first place, but it still gives me this message that I need to renew a subscription I never purchased in order to access music I've already paid for.

did that, all the non itunes purchased songs are greyed out and cannot be played.

Apple Music, such a pain in the arse. Seriously considering leaving forever