iTunes issue when importing to rekordbox

- the songs are in the cloud and not downloaded to your drive

- the songs are from Apple Music

- the songs are DRM

- the songs are in a format not supported by rekordbox

None are in the cloud. All downloaded.
Songs are either purchased from iTunes. Or imported to iTunes from CD on iTunes default settings or are downloaded as a file and opened with iTunes.

I thought iTunes converts all of its files to the same type whether it's uploaded from CD or opened in iTunes?

Is there a way to convert all files in iTunes to work on rekordbox?

What's DRM?

DRM = "Digital Rights Management," and that's only applicable if you bought it from Apple before they removed that feature from iTunes audio purchases a few years ago.

What format are the songs which aren't being imported? Have you checked to see which ones aren't coming in and what they have in common (or different from those which are being imported)?

What file types can and can't rekordbox accept?

I haven't yet but will. Trying to find the ones that haven't come through May take a while with 3199 though

Supported audio filetypes: ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF MP3, AAC

The majority so far are either MPEG Audio file or ACC
The DRM files would they be 'Protected ACC' ?

Could certainly be.

I think it's them 😡. Any ideas how to convert these at all or any ideas how to get these onto rekordbox? Annoyingly there are about 400 odd of these

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7387027

Thanks I will check it out. If that link doesn't work, burning them to disc and importing would that change the format? Bit useless when it comes to technology so any help is much appreciated. Thanks