Apple Music windows app not letting me play older songs I have in my library

Basically the issue i am having is whenever i try to play a song i've downloaded to my apple music library 6+ years ago it will give me a "this computer is not authorized. you must authorize this computer before you can use apple music or itunes match on this computer". but songs downloaded within the past 6 years are just fine. i tried even deauthorizing and re-authorizing my pc but it won't even let me do that, and it keeps on popping up with the "if you want to deauthorize the computer please enter apple id and password". So either the app is being very buggy and having an authorization issue or I have no idea what is going on.


Apple music web and my iphone 12 pro play my music just fine, so it is 100% the windows app that is bugging. any help would be appreciated

Windows, Windows 11 (26100)

Posted on Feb 1, 2025 01:16 PM

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Feb 5, 2025 02:26 AM in response to Ayeitsdre

Do you have a current subscription to either Apple Music or iTunes Match? Are the items in question purchases from the iTunes Store or content ripped from CD or from other sources?


If you have tracks that won't play in your library, or won't transfer to a device, complaining that your computer needs to be authorized, and yet reauthorizing the computer doesn't fix anything, then you are perhaps looking at purchased tracks that haven't been decrypted properly after download. Assuming these are purchases, and you have backups, try right-clicking and removing the download, or deleting from the library without hiding from your purchase history, then redownload from the cloud links that should remain in the library. In some cases you may need to close and reopen before they show. While redownloading it may help to click the activity widget and turn off the option that allows for simultaneous downloads.


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