I am trying to add music from my iTunes folder but iMovie seem to only pick up a few tunes and not my tune library. It is iMovie 10.1.2. Any ideas please. Harry

HI

I am trying to add music to a new video on iMovie 10.1.2 but when I click on my iTunes folder after clicking on Audio I only find a few tunes from my library. Any ideas how to get my whole library or do I just have to put music files into a file on finder?

Harry

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), iOS 10, IMovie 10.1.2

Posted on Sep 20, 2016 2:09 AM

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Sep 20, 2016 8:17 AM in response to Harry Gray

Adding to what Léone said, songs in your iTunes library that are DRM protected will not show up in your iMovie iTunes

folder. Look at the bottom of your iMovie iTunes folder display and see if it says that "___ files are protected and unavailable."


If that's your issue, these songs would not be usable in iMovie even if dragged in from a folder in the finder. They would be ones that you purchased before 2009, when iTunes had DRM protection on its songs. Since then iTunes has discontinued that practice.

Sep 20, 2016 8:35 AM in response to Rich839

Since then iTunes has discontinued that practice.


That is what the iTunes Store claims. But DRM songs keep appearing on collection albums again and again. 😠

I have quite a few of them with a purchase date newer than 2009.

For example: Purchased in 2012:



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An btw, Apple Music songs will probably also not work, because they are protected as well.

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I am trying to add music from my iTunes folder but iMovie seem to only pick up a few tunes and not my tune library. It is iMovie 10.1.2. Any ideas please. Harry

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