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Apple Music

I have not taken the bite of buying songs or subscribing to Apple Music. The Music App is just a player for me, and it could be better. I have put some of my CD music collection in my Mac & iPhone. I have 7,133 songs in my iPhone. Some of these songs are over an hour long as I like to be able to hear an album in it's entirety without the Music App screwing it up. The Music app is designed for single songs and not albums. Music in my phone takes up 45.13 GB on and 75.36 GB on my Mac. My music is bought and paid for.

Apple is Stealing my Music

Recently, I learned from Apple Support that in order to listen to some of my bought and paid for songs that I have transferred from CD’s, I have to have an Apple Music Account on my iPhone. I do not. Apple Music takes some of the songs from the CD and displays a dialog box that says “This Song Is Not Available in Your Region”. When I look on an iPhone App “iAmzing” the app shows a cloud icon by the song that won’t play. Apple has stolen my song if I can’t play it on my phone. When you buy a song or album, you are given the right to play that song not to own it. Apple has stolen that right to play the song by referencing the Apple Music song.

Apple Support does not advise well

To play the song on the Music App on my iPhone, it want’s me to download it from the Apple Music Cloud. In order to do this I have to have an Apple Music Account. Apple told me that it was the music industry that changed the way they do this and they can not help me. This total false and I could not convince them otherwise. I tied playing Stealy Dan’s song “Aja”, it was referencing Apple Music version and gave me the error message “This Song Is Not Available in Your Region”. Like Stealy Dan is not available in my region in the USA? Their solution was to subscribe to Apple Music.

https://www.guidingtech.com/fix-apple-music-this-song-is-not-available-your-region-error-iphone-ipad/

Check Storage

This made me do some investigating into why this was happening. I did discover that my iPhone was very full storage and that when I had tried to sync my extensive Playlists from my Mac a lot of songs were in the Apple Music cloud. Not once did the Apple technician suggest to check my iPhone storage. So I deleted the offending files and cleared out my music. Now I had lots of GB’s to reload my music from my playlists. Surprise, Surprise, the iPhone still had those offending Apple Music files again.

Fixed?

I have found if I load the music by Albums in stead of Playlists, Apple Music does not substitute my music for theirs and I get all my songs. I have to manually create the playlists on the iPhone. I have never had to do this before. I sure miss iTunes!