Why did you remove core, critical Irish Traditional Music from users in the US?

This is a user-to-user forum. Apple isn’t here, and they may or may not read postings around here.

Usual reason for these removals is the artist or their label has withdrawn permission, or is re-negotiating terms, or is potentially re-releasing the material. But nobody here knows why. Not unless there’s an official statement from the artist or their label.

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In my experience, favorite albums are best bought, and then copied somewhere offline for preservation.

Sometimes the remastered or re-released versions are better, sometimes not, too.

W_Stone wrote:

We create sets of tunes that change all the time. Having it in Apple Music let me create playlists of sets. I do own these in CD format and there’s YouTube videos of most of them.

If the music is your own whether purchased from Apple, or purchased elsewhere, or ripped from your own media, it should remain available in your Apple Music library. On a Mac, it’s possible to check the song attributes to see if the music has DRM or not, as a way to tell the difference between. Apple Music “rented” music will have DRM, and your own music will not.

But I also keep copies locally, so that I can reload should something get snarled.

I didn’t realize Apple does not monitor this forum at all.

Apple monitors. They may or may not read, and they usually don’t respond.