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Your iCloud Music Library session has expired

Ever since upgrading to El Capitan, every time I open iTunes I get a "your iCloud Music Library session has expired" dialog window. iCloud is turned off in the System Preferences (all selections are disabled) and every item that remotely could be interpreted as an iCloud function in iTunes preferences is disabled. Yet, I continue to get the session expired dialog window (some times even twice). Any way to disable the dialog box?

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Oct 24, 2015 1:49 AM

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Posted on Sep 7, 2017 2:15 PM

Thanks Eriethman:

"I fixed my problem by signing out of iTunes, closing iTunes, opening iTunes, and then logging back in."


This did the trick. I have been futzing with this on and off for a couple of weeks. Your suggestion seems to have fixed it.


Thanks.

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Dec 28, 2015 10:33 AM in response to Frank J. R. Hanstick

The other solutions mentioned in this thread did not help me (OS X 10.11.1 and iTunes 12.3.2.35). The solution in my case was:


In iTunes, on the top menu bar click the "Store" dropdown and sign out of iTunes. Then, log back in with the same account. Since then, I have not been prompted to reenter my AppleID each time I open iTunes.

Jan 3, 2016 6:56 AM in response to stereointeractive

These so called solutions only last a few days. I've now tested this over three 2 weeks, not working!


it lasted for a couple days but eventually i need to enter my password again. I use a Mac mini as a server, it runs for several days at a time. And in my case no solution anyone has posted yet has worked for more then 2 days.


It appears to me as though iTunes "home sharing" feature is the next culprit. Try to play a local fine on my apple tv thru home sharing and then the popup appears. I'm ******. just like always no testing ever gets done before an apple release. Just through it out there and let the customers test it for you. GARBAGE!


still running yosemite 10.10.5 too, not even capo. My father is running capo with the exact same issue.

Jan 20, 2016 7:58 AM in response to SteveCagan

Well, I finally solved this, with the help of an Apple tech person. It turns out that the issue wasn't that a session had expired--how could it have, I never have opened such a session, and never plan to. It was that Apple's system wanted me to update my payment information--though there had been no problems on this side when buying apps--really, minor scam from Apple...once I updated the payment information (for something I will never buy), the harassing dialogue windows stopped...

Apr 1, 2016 12:49 PM in response to Frank J. R. Hanstick

Since I cannot determine how to start new thread on this forum I will have to ask my question here instead.

How do I get rid of this message: your icloud music library session has expired

I click cancel and it pops right back up. This needs to go away permanently. Is there something I can do, like in terminal somewhere to prevent this message for all eternity. And no, I don't have "Show Apple Music" checked and I have never purchased anything from Apple Store.

I would like to delete this icloud music library, which I don't even have.

Your iCloud Music Library session has expired

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