I bit the bullet and paid $25 for the iTunes Match subscription in order to follow this procedure, and it mostly worked. I just delete the track via iTunes and then click the cloud icon next to it to re-download. You don't need either of those in order to re-download tracks you've purchased from iTunes store. But in that case, why is only one track DRM-tainted? And why is it only tainted on the initial download, not when I re-download it?ģ) The re-download technique works for me even though I do not use iTunes match nor Apple music.
Why else would a freshly purchased album require delete-and-re-download of only one of its 22 tracks? The album in question, "Marc Ribot:Soundtracks II", was released in 2003, prior to the 2009 end-of-DRM, so yes it could have been lumped into the DRM-using category for that reason. This suggests there is something flaky about how iTunes delivers purchased files. It's curious that this sometimes occurs with, say, only a single file out of a recently (Feb 2016) purchased album of music from the iTunes store. Something like Google Music upload can be used to identify which files are (according to Google) DRM-tainted.Ģ) Downloading the songs again, they switch to "Purchased AAC Audio File". The tricky thing is that the tracks simply listed as "AAC Audio File" are not all necessarily DRM-tainted. So searching by "Protected AAC Audio File" might not find all your DRM-tainted tracks. The delete-the-track-and-re-download-it technique works for me too.ġ) Some of the tracks listed in "kind" as simply "AAC Audio File" (not "Protected AAC Audio File") prove to be DRM-infected (or at least, that's what Google Music gives as the reason for not allowing me to upload them). Stopping iTunes Match subscription ($25 per year) does not change status of downloaded songs. Also, I replaced my other matched songs (that did not come from iTunes Store) with 256 kbps AAC (no DRM) using iTunes Match. Those songs still come back as 128 kbps "protected" for format when I re-download it. I say "mostly" because there are a few songs are no longer sold in iTunes Store. I had many older 128 kbps songs with DRM, and they have mostly been replaced by the currently sold 256 kbps AAC file with no DRM, thanks to iTunes Match.
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If you subscribe to iTunes Match, when you delete the original song file from your iTunes library for any song that matches, you DO get back a 256 kbps AAC song file with no DRM when you download it from your iCloud music library. When you download the song again from the Purchased screen, you get back the same song file, because that's what you purchased. However, during the early years of iTunes Store, songs were sold with DRM in 128 kbps AAC format. This has been true since Apple was allowed to offer songs using the 256 kbps "iTunes Plus" AAC format, quite a few years ago. New song purchases from iTunes Store do not use DRM. This is a problem, since it is my understanding that AAC Protection is no longer supposed to be used by iTunes. Then, right click on selection, and Download. Select them all at once on the song list, right-click on selection, and Remove Download. If it works for one of the songs, sort your song list by the Kind column, so that all of the Protected AAC audio file songs appear together on the list. It should be 256 kbps AAC no DRM, for any matched song (including 128 kbps protected).
Click it to download the song from your iCloud music library (which is different from downloading from Purchased screen). The song remains on the song list, but it now has a download button (cloud symbol with down-arrow) in the iCloud Download column. Select option to send song's file to the Trash. On your library song list, right-click on a song (that has this problem) and select Remove Download (not Delete). I like to put it next to the song name column.
If you don't see the iCloud Download column, make it visible (it has a "cloud" symbol in its heading). Show your music library using the Songs view (to show a plain list of songs with columns). If you have iTunes Match, your iTunes music library is showing you your iCloud music library. If you are using the Purchased screen to download the song again (which is how you described it), try doing the download from your iCloud music library.
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