Downloaded songs disappearing from Apple Music playlists

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Downloaded songs disappearing from Apple Music playlists

I am a subscriber to Apple Music. Songs in Apple Music that I search , download & add to my playlists suddenly go missing for no apparent reason & are unavailable (unless I can find a suitable alternative).

This is starting to p... me off big time given I pay for a service that is often lauded as the world's biggest data base of music.

For e.g the writer of all Abba's great songs, Benny Andersson, has done various solo albums or with his own orchestra. They have been in Apple Music & I have happily downloaded a number of them. Suddenly a key album of a lot of these great tracks has disappeared. Bad luck for my Benny Andersson playlist.

I am not happy & will reconsider my subscription.

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Original Title: downloaded songs in Apple Music

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.6

Posted on Sep 13, 2025 09:48 PM

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Mac Jim ID

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Sep 13, 2025 09:59 PM in response to psmbor

Are you saying the Album is no longer available in Apple Music? The Artist/Publisher controls what music is made available on Apple Music. They can add music and pull music from the service at any time. It works the same way for Spotify and Pandora. Apple is not determining what tracks should be available and even you could create a song and add it to Apple Music through a Publisher where it will remain until you remove it. You are free to choose any music service you wish.

Downloading songs from Apple Music is not the same as purchasing them from iTunes. A song purchased from iTunes will remain after the Artist/Publisher removes it from the service and you can continue to listen to it. None of the streaming services will allow you to continue to play a song that has been removed from the platform.

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