But not obvious. Probably for good reason.
Anyway, I stumbled across it a year or so ago. Mostly out of desperation. Now I immediately convert any song to mp3. Also, there are a few songs from several years back that won’t convert. Probably pre-black out DRM.
When, which year? 2016? which ever version came out that year.
google search... per google this link is dated 2016.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht204310
Apparently, the media companies have lightened up finally and the blackout is over. BTW, I don’t sell or put the songs on the internet. Stupid and unfair. I do want play the songs elsewhere and not be locked down to one player.
I have a media player for the home that only supports mp3. Uses shoutcast and MIXXX (under Linux). I do not broadcast on the internet. Just home smart phones and players.
Same with my car and mp3 USB port (flash drive plugged directly into the USB port on my car) — no extra ipod,iphone with cable needed. Yeah!
And we have android phones. Interesting that we don’t use them for music players. Only my son does that.
Per the Wayback machine, that page was first found and archived at the beginning of 2015:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht204310
That page has a "last modified" date of Feb 19, 2015. In theory it could have been posted before that, and just it took a while for the Wayback to find it. These are indirect indicators, of course.