A lot of my iTunes files are protected and unavailable to use in iMovie. Why is this?

A lot of my iTunes files are 'protected and unavailable' to use in iMovie. Why?

check in Finder the suffix of those audio files ... if it's .m4p, those are protected=DRM=not meant/allowed for 'processing' aka using in videos...,
only legal way is:
* create a playlist of your m4p filesn in iTunes
* burn a CD from this playlist in iTunes (... if your Mac comes with a disk-drive ...)
* import this CD back to iTunes => same title, but now with .m4a = audio, unprotected... could be helpful to add some 'tag' in iTunes to those re-imported music to indicate them as 'processable'...

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