Music not available in my country ?

90% of my music is soundtracks and foreign CDs. I buy all my music from CDJapan and they are all legal and legit CDs. I do not download or capture from any online sources. I have had no issues with listening to my stuff until recently. Randomly, my iphone will grey out my songs and say it is not available in my country or region.


This is unfair on Apple's part. Most of the songs are not available to buy on itunes and the ones that actually are? For some odd reason they won't play on my phone. I have a copy of an itunes purchase that was on the USA store and that album is randomly affected as well.


I don't understand the reason behind trying to stop people from listening to music from other countries. iTunes allows us to buy CDs from a store, import, and place them on our phones, ipods and ipads. But this recent block makes no sense.


My phone is a non active phone that I just use for music storage. So I cannot access VPN.

The solution is a resync but that is pretty annoying and a gamble if the iPhone just decides to randomly detect and grey out stuff. It feels pretty much like a whim of the device.



Posted on Nov 15, 2022 02:48 PM

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Nov 17, 2022 12:45 PM in response to Rimsala

Hello Rimsala,


We understand that the music in question comes from disc. Do you have any online syncing services such as Apple Music or iTunes Match? We just want to make sure there's nothing external involved. One example is with sync library, which is outlined here: If songs are missing from your music library after you turn on Sync Library - Apple Support


If a song is grayed out
If you see No Longer Available next to a song that's grayed out, the song was added from Apple Music and was removed from the Apple Music catalog.
Learn what the different cloud icons and symbols next to your songs mean in the Apple Music app
Learn what the different cloud icons and symbols next to your songs mean in iTunes


Thanks!

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