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Thread: Why can't I burn purchased music to CD?

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    Why can't I burn purchased music to CD?

    I discovered that I couldn't burn any Apple Music tracks to a CD (which is fair enough, I suppose, since I'm still on the free trial), so i decided to buy an album that I had already listened to via Apple Music, thinking that, since I now owned the album, I could burn it to CD.

    But when i dragged the tracks from my Purchased playlist into a new playlist and clicked "Burn Playlist to CD", I got a warning telling me that some of the tracks were Apple Music and couldn't be burned. So, I went through my iTunes library and made sure that all M4P tracks by that artist had been trashed and deleted, making sure that the tracks I then dragged to the playlist were all standard M4A format.

    Still no joy. The same warning that some tracks were Apple Music was displayed. I've checked. they're not.

    How do I burn a CD of tracks I've legitimately purchased and downloaded through iTunes?

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    Re: Why can't I burn purchased music to CD?

    You cannot, they are copy protected.

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    Re: Why can't I burn purchased music to CD?

    M4P tracks are copy protected. M4A are not. You can use iTunes to burn a CD of either type, but not from music sourced only through Apple Music. You may still have some AM-sourced music in that playlist. I suggest you create a smart playlist that shows "kind contains protected" and see if it has any unexpected entries.

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