I wanted to listed to Imagine album by John Lennon and to my surprise the first song which is the same as the album title is not available in my region or country. How can this be?
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Apple has to have the licensing and legal permission for the use and sale of music in specific countries and regions on the iTunes Store and/or Apple Music.
If Apple and the license holder can not reach an agreement for this region or country, Apple can not offer this song in Apple Music.
There might also be other legal reasons for that.
As mentioned, it’s a licensing issue. Although it can very easily be temporary, especially since it’s John Lennon. But if you want to have access to all songs/albums and don’t want to leave Apple Music for a lower quality service, you can just buy the individual songs that have licensing issues on iTunes to fill the album. A permanent solution for a constantly changing landscape of licensing agreements.
Does that also include albums that I have had downloaded for years for example a Dance music album that had three continuous mixes available then suddenly they disappear from the album itself, can’t even get it in iTunes weirdly.
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An album that I uploaded from a CD and listened to a lot suddenly Apple removed one of the 3 disc compilation very recently which they surely do not have the right to do, if so why not remove the whole album and not just Disc 2 of 3?
This whole “Not available in your region” is just complete nonsense on Apple Music.
i have been using Apple Music for close to 20+ years but suddenly a track or a continuous mixes available just suddenly disappears.
You’re probably using either iTunes Match, a standalone service, or the Apple Music subscription, which also includes iTunes Match.
iTunes match scans your local library and matches its contents with what’s available on iTunes to get an anywhere, any time, Apple Music (subscription) style listening experience. Apple Music made everything streamable, so largely rendered iTunes Match useless.
So if you used iTunes Match or Apple Music with “Sync Library” turned on, Apple tried to match your local music files with versions in its own catalog. To make them accessible anywhere.
The original files, if you checked “Keep iTunes Media files organized”, will still be available in the iTunes Media folder. If you didn’t check it, they will be available wherever you left them.
The distinction here is that you can no longer listen to those songs using iTunes Match. The iTunes licensing agreements probably expired. But you original music files are still on your computer. You just can’t play them through iTunes if it’s looking for the cloud version.
If you want to listen to those songs on iTunes, just turn off “Sync Library” and add those files again.
How come a song in a particular album is not available in my region our country?
