Apple Music subscription ending - what happens to my uploaded music?

Question

Level 2

361 points

Apple Music subscription ending - what happens to my uploaded music?

Hi,

My Apple Music subscription is ending as my mobile contract is ending and it came with that. I am aware once it has ended, I will no longer have access to the songs in my library and any playlists created using music from Apple Music.

Prior to subscribing, I uploaded my own MP3 tracks from various different artists to my Apple Music library. These are tracks I purchased on CDs and uploaded myself to my Apple Music library, and they were not accessed as a result of my Apple Music subscription. Will I lose access to these too please, or will my library just shrink to only show them?

If it is the former, how can I get these out of Apple Music library before it ends please? Dragging and dropping, export, and burn to CD are all greyed out or non-functional.

Thank you

iMac (M1, 2021)

Posted on Jul 20, 2023 5:28 PM

Reply

Answer 1

ed2345

Level 9

63,440 points

Jul 20, 2023 7:39 PM in response to automaticecho

Prior to subscribing, I uploaded my own MP3 tracks from various different artists to my Apple Music library. These are tracks I purchased on CDs and uploaded myself to my Apple Music library,

Echo,

The usual way to do that would be to keep the MP3 on your hard drive, and let Apple Music match or upload a copy to its cloud. Is that what you did? If/when the subscription ends, the cloud copy vanishes and you still have the MP3 on your hard drive along with any copies or backups you have made.

Reply

Answer 2

ed2345

Level 9

63,440 points

Jul 22, 2023 5:53 AM in response to automaticecho

Hi Echo,

If a track has the downloadable symbol as below, grab it. Otherwise I don't know of a way.

Per your second question, I have seen on this Forum that the AM library stays intact for 30 days after the end of a subscription. I do not know how certain that is.

Reply

Answer 3

automaticecho Author

Level 2

361 points

Jul 21, 2023 5:20 PM in response to ed2345

Hi @ed2345

Thanks for your reply.

It’ll have been a case of Apple Music uploading to the cloud as there were many tracks that are unpublished (music recorded by family at get togethers and internally distributed).

Once uploaded, I think I deleted the copies from my hard drive. This may be backed up by the fact that when I select ‘show in finder’ in the right click menu on the track in the music desktop application, it opens finder but doesn’t show anything.

Given these copies are my own and are in the Apple Music cloud, how do I get them out and back on my computer please?

Also, how long is it Apple Music keeps the library for upon renewal please? I.e. if my music subscription ended today, how long would I have to renew my subscription and retain my library please?

Thank you

Reply

Apple Music subscription ending - what happens to my uploaded music?

Similar questions