Ripped CDs - This song is not currently available in your country or region

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Ripped CDs - This song is not currently available in your country or region

I'm getting the dreaded message as shown in the above title. I don't subscribe to Apple Music or any streaming music service. I simply rip my CD's to Apple's music app on my M1 iMac and occasionally purchase music from the iTunes (Apple Music) store.

I recently ripped four CD's from a box set onto my iMac. All four ripped CD's show and play fine on the iMac, but when synced across my iphone (XSMax) and iPad (Pro 2021), two of the ripped CD's are grayed out and come back with the message shown in the title description.

I cannot begin to explain how infuriating Apple's music app is. Yes, I have gone through and reset the warnings, disabled VPN, signed out and back into my Apple account to no avail.

The only work around, which I do not like, is to turn off "sync library" on my iPhone and then manually sync to my iMac. Apple's Music then creates other issues on my iPhone and iPad, such as showing albums "twice" in the music listing.

In addition, under "Recently Added" on the Music app, it used to show ALL of my albums in the order that I added them, but no more. It only shows the last 60 or so albums.

I detest Apple's music app, but I just can't seem to find any other 3rd party app that will let me sync everything up from the iMac like the Music app does.

Has anyone found a solution to any of these issues, because it appears that Apple could care less about fixing any of this.

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 21, 2023 05:56 PM

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lowew79

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May 26, 2024 02:53 PM in response to Oldoiler

This happening to me as well. I just want to have my music, purchased from iTunes, and the tracks ripped from my CDs on my iphone. It seems that apple updates, or something, take a perfectly functioning music library and mess it up. I'm not always near my PC and syncing isn't very convenient.

Ultimately I wish I could get my music library working and then just disconnect my device from the internet and use it with updates fiddling with it like the old 1st gen iPods.

I have no solutions to offer just wanted to let apple know I have this issue as well.

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Oldoiler Author

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Jun 2, 2024 03:27 PM in response to lowew79

It makes no sense, but I have discovered that depending on how you import your ripped CD’s will sometimes cause this issue of them “not being available” in your region, or whatever it is that it says.

Sometimes I rip my CD’s into a WAV format and I’ll get the dreaded message that the songs are not available. I’ll delete them and then import/rip them into Apple Lossless or another format available and they will all of a sudden show up.

Not sure if this would help you or not and again, it makes no sense why it would do this. iTunes is very buggy when it comes to stuff like this and I’m looking for an alternative music app now.

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Ripped CDs - This song is not currently available in your country or region

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