Music files in .movpkg format: am I doing something wrong?
In Apple Music version 1.5.5.34 on a MacBook Pro M2 running MacOS 15.5, I checked the setting to download files in Apple Hi-Res Lossless format (see attachment). It looks like beaTunes 5.2.35 now fails to be able to decode the music files when I attempt to run Analyze. Here's an example of the error message in the Analysis tab log pane
```
Analysis: Failed to decode track 'Sweat (feat. Benni Ola)' (FileNotFound: /Users/mhucka/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/OMRI_/Release The Pressure (feat. Benni Ola) - EP/02 Sweat (feat. Benni Ola).movpkg). (id=-4249575999525885218)
```
It is also unable to play those tracks. The error then is "Failed to open item. The file for the track could not be found.".
Am I doing something wrong, or is beaTunes unable to read Hi-Res Lossless format? (Apologies if I'm doing something ignorant! I started using beaTunes only recently.)
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1 Posted by mhucka+beatunes on 27 Jul, 2025 04:22 PM
Screenshot of error dialog presented when I try to play a track.
2 Posted by mhucka+beatunes on 27 Jul, 2025 04:26 PM
(This forum software is frustrating. If you want to post an attachment with a comment, and you accidentally forget to answer the human verification question when you submit the comment+attachment, it prompts you to answer the verification question again but drops the attachment. You can edit the comment, but at that point it won't let you attach a file during editing, which means the only way to include the attachment is to post another comment. Anyway, hopefully the attachment will show up this time.)
Support Staff 3 Posted by Hendrik Schreib... on 28 Jul, 2025 07:03 AM
Hi,
for some reason Apple decided to export this as
.movpkginstead of some more traditional lossless audio format. I'm afraid, currently, beaTunes does not support that format.That said, if the file you want to play comes from the Apple Music streaming service, you are out of luck anyway, as those files are encrypted by Apple, meaning Apple actively keeps 3rd party software like beaTunes from accessing the audio portion of those files.
-hendrik