I do not have any experience with this, but have you considered calling Apple, and after explaining what is happening, get their opinion on what is going on and why.
HTH, Chris > On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:09 AM, Grant Hardy <grantha...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > At the moment, I have an Apple Music subscription, but not an iTunes Match > subscription. I used to be subscribed to iTunes Match, but canceled the > subscription some time ago. > > Anyway, I have a MacBook Air with an empty iTunes library (no tracks > downloaded to the machine). I’ve signed into my iCloud music library on the > machine, and I see that the iCloud status for the majority of tracks is > “Apple Music”, meaning those songs have DRM. Sure enough, when I download > most of the tracks (even songs I extracted from my own CDs prior to the > introduction of Apple Music) they are protected tracks and can’t be played in > any other app. Weirdly, though, about one in every ten tracks shows as > “matched”, meaning I can download a version from Apple without DRM, or > “uploaded”, meaning I can download the original formats I added to iTunes > over the years. > > Most confusingly, some tracks won’t play on either iOS or MacOS, and their > iCloud status is “no longer available” which means that they’re no longer > available for streaming or downloading by Apple Music subscribers. But again, > these are songs I added to my library before I ever subscribed to Apple Music. > > It’s been difficult to find any official info on the different behaviour of > Apple Music versus iTunes Match for matched songs. This Apple support article > just says "If you're an Apple Music member, you don't need to subscribe to > iTunes Match unless you still need to access your music on an Apple TV (2nd > or 3rd Generation).” This MacWorld article from July 2015 says that you do > need to subscribe to iTunes Match, even if you have an Apple Music > subscription, if you want to download tracks without DRM. But that wouldn’t > explain why there are occasional “matched” tracks in my library. > > Does anyone have experience with this? > > Thanks, > > Grant > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
