Matt Hooper wrote: 
> I will try that later today.
> 
> But I'm still confused about what is purportedly causing the problem.
> 
> Do you mean that a purchased digital album only comes with "permission"
> to play on the computer it was downloaded to?  If that's the case...how
> do we ever transfer this music to an external drive for use in our music
> server system?

No I don’t mean that.
Linux works with users and file permissions for that user.
When you copy music from your home Mac to the USB disk the files get
stamped with the user id for the user of the home Mac. This is probably
the admin user (or “root” in Linux terms). Your LMS on the Pi will also
use “root” so can read the files,
The user you have on the work Mac is in all probability NOT root so when
you copy files from there they are owned by that user and may not be
readable by the Pi.
By making fresh copies on your home Mac and writing them from there they
should assume the same user as all the rest on the USB disk.
If it isn’t that then it will be that the audio files themselves are not
compatible. To fix that it is usually a case of reconverting them from
FLAC to FLAC using some other software.



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