my 2020 edition of music maker has now turned into a free edition do i now have to buy a 2021 edition or can i activate my edition i see no options to do this
my 2020 edition of music maker has now turned into a free edition
Assuming that you have not purposely deactivated it (via your account) the only reason for this to occur, I think, is if your installation of MM is unable to complete its monthly check of your licence, by an online, background, connection to the Magix server. If it is the case that you have not deliberately deactivated your licence, you need to check that your Firewall and/or Antivirus is not blocking the connection to or from your computer to the server.
There is no need to buy any later edition (2022 has just been released) unless you wish to.
@Slumph If you cannot log back into your user account it often helps if you go into the program settings and click on the button to clean up the store. This will delete the old cache and can solve log-in-problems after updates.