Song not available in this region

Hi


I've had random songs in my playlists showing as "not available in this region", but they clearly are (Cure, Pink Floyd, Beatles, etc - in the UK!).


I have resync'd, deleted all my music and recovered from backup.


I have no local music, this is all Apple Music.


I think I know what's wrong though - if I pick a specific song in one of my playlists, "Accuracy" by The Cure, it shows as unavailable, as is most of the album:




but you can see the album is classed as "Rock - 1980". If I then go and search for the album, I get this:




Which shows as "Alternative - 1979".


I'm wondering if in reclassifying albums as, say lossless, they've deleted the original links?


Deleting and re-adding each song in a playlist of thousands is going to take hours, many many hours, and I have no confidence that Apple won't reclassify albums again in future? What happens if an album is moved to hi-res, so I lose the link again?


Any ideas - I'm tempted to export the playlists using a third party tool, delete all the playlists, and import them and hope the lookups work?


Shaun

iPhone 14 Pro Max

Posted on Mar 22, 2023 04:41 AM

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Mar 22, 2023 06:21 AM in response to Shaun Conn

The rest of this post seemed to disappear so part two….


if I search for this album I get a different album - same name, different classification and available songs:


so it looks like as apple reclassifies albums (for example to lossless) the link in playlists is broken.


does anyone know if there’s a way to regenerate the playlists and get the right links? Deleting and reading across tens of thousands of tracks is not going to be easy….



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