Error message: Song can't be played because you're not logged in to Apple Music

[mgpg89]

New day, new bug.
I get this weird error message when I try to start a playlist:

Song can't be played because you're not logged in to Music.
You have to be logged in to Music before you can play Music songs.
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This doesn't happen to all Music songs, just some of them.
Wasn't able to figure out a pattern yet, if there is any.

Obviously, I am logged in.

Already tried:

• logging out and then logging back in again.
• playing on iPhone works fine.

Anyone got any ideas how to solve this?
Thanks in advance.

 

[mgpg89]

Anyone? The problem keeps persisting. Been 3 days now.

 

[Julien]

Anyone? The problem keeps persisting. Been 3 days now.

You probably should provide more info if you want others to help you troubleshoot.

• Is it on your Mac or iPhone or both?
• Did you try rebooting your Mac and/or iPhone?
• Is it happening on more than one device?
• Are you playing music on your Mac at the same time you try on your iPhone?
• Are you running any betas?
• Are all tracks your are trying to play available in Belgium (not grayed out)?
• Are these tracks you have played before?

 

[mgpg89]

You probably should provide more info if you want others to help you troubleshoot.

• Is it on your Mac or iPhone or both?

Just on my Mac. iPhone works fine.

• Did you try rebooting your Mac and/or iPhone?

Yep, didn't resolve the issue.

• Is it happening on more than one device?

No, just the Mac.

• Are you playing music on your Mac at the same time you try on your iPhone?

No.

• Are you running any betas?

No.

• Are all tracks your are trying to play available in Belgium (not grayed out)?

Yes.

• Are these tracks you have played before?

Yes.

Answered!
Thanks for helping out

 

[mgpg89]

Ugh, this is really starting to get on my nerves.
Can you call Apple technical support for Music issues?

 

[mgpg89]

Managed to solve this one myself ... after a couple of nerve-racking days.
Doesn't seem to be a widely-documented problem,
but here's the solution anyway.

The problem only occurred with tracks that were made available offline on my Mac.

Steps to fix this:
1) delete download (don't delete the music, just the offline file)
2) play.
3) re-download if you'd like

Voila -_-

Something seems to have corrupted the downloaded files that caused them not to play anymore.