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Apple Begins Rolling Out iTunes Match With Audio Fingerprint to Apple Music Subscribers (loopinsight.com)
In May, Vellum's James shared an ordeal that many people were able to relate to. Apple Music had deleted music files from his computer. It's an issue that many of us have faced over the years. At the time, Apple noted that it didn't actually know what was causing this. But it appears, it has finally figured out the issue and patched it. Jim Dalrymple, reporting for The Loop: One of the biggest complaints about Apple Music over the past year was that it wouldn't properly match songs subscribers had in their existing iTunes libraries. That problem is being fixed by Apple. Apple has been quietly rolling out iTunes Match audio fingerprint to all Apple Music subscribers. Previously Apple was using a less accurate metadata version of iTunes Match on Apple Music, which wouldn't always match the correct version of a particular song. We've all seen the stories of a live version of a song being replaced by a studio version, etc. Using iTunes Match with audio fingerprint, those problems should be a thing of the past. If you had songs that were matched incorrectly using the metadata version of iTunes Match, the new version will rematch to the correct song. However, it will not delete any downloaded copies of songs you have in your library. This is a very good thing -- we don't want songs auto-deleting from our libraries.
Except that you DID authorize them in the EULA fine print to update, maintain and patrol your licensed works, not purchased, that you technically don't own. I am not sure being a non-apple person whether it is possible to disable the acquiring of licenses or updating of said authorizations as an option, as it is in the M$ media player. I keep my music on a disk not defined as part of my 'music library' to the program that I use to load my mp3 player and generally use VLC with no DRM enabled to play my music at home or on my network.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
You mean I could have cloned the CDDB database and downloaded every song in Apple's library by simply creating dummy files with the right headers and structs?
Interestingly, this is yet another reason to never buy DRM controlled music. Not only do you have to worry about all the usual problems with DRM schemes, you also have to pay attention to EULAs. Does the company have the right (not just the ability) to alter your content? In what ways? Have they modified the terms of the EULA since you signed up for it? NEVER BUY DRM CRIPPLED MUSIC, PEOPLE!
I am beginning to wonder if the Gun Nuts have the right idea...no, I am not in any way worried about the government becoming corrupt and needing to be overthrown. I ain't scared of the government. I am worried about the lawyers needing to be overthrown...
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It does seem like they fixed the wrong problem. It's not the fact that the matching was bad, it's that the app could delete music without user confirmation in the first place.
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It was a bug with the system. To violate the CFAA, it would have to have been maliciously or purposefully destroying his data. Apple sent engineers to the guys house to attempt to reproduce the issue and they weren't even able to reproduce it at the time.
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From the UI I had no idea.
"In May, Vellum's James shared an ordeal that many people were able to relate to. Apple Music had deleted music files from his computer. It's an issue that many of us have faced over the years. At the time, Apple noted that it didn't actually know what was causing this. But it appears, it has finally figured out the issue and patched it."
So, to the fucking people that were on here saying it was bullshit because they'd never seen it AND loudly denying that it ever happened, SUCK IT, YOU ASSHOLES. Apple themselves just admitted it was happening and now they've (supposedly) fixed it.
Next time just keep your stupid fucking mouths shut so you don't make such assholes of yourselves.
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At the time, Apple noted that it didn't actually know what was causing this ... Previously Apple was using a less accurate metadata version of iTunes Match on Apple Music...
This is astonishing. Anyone, and I mean anyone, trying to manage a music collection is terribly aware that "metadata" for music is extremely unreliable, often not even able to correctly assign a track to the correct artist or album, and is entirely unable to determine the actual version of any track. It is basically just a slightly more complex version of deleting files by file name, rather than calculating a hash to determine whether it is the same file! (Gee aren't all files in the world with the name 1.mpg the very same song?)
The idea that Apple "didn't actually know" what the problem was, or how useless and dangerous there "match" approach was is not believable in the slightest, unless we assume extreme incompetence at every level of their music content business... (oh, wait...).
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errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Will it replace 30-year-old recordings with newer, compressed (made louder) versions?
You can't "fix" a piece of turd by vomiting on top of it.
For years iTunes is plagued by well-known bugs affecting its core function of playing music (ie it skips in the middle of a track to the next song (bug report) (demonstration)). I'm surprised they took care of this one "so quickly".
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Frankly, I find Apple's business to be very disingenuous. Its built on the backs of so many consumers paying a premium for competent software, yet ends up with paid services that routinely attempts to delete their purchases and content or censor what the consumer has access to. Its not just the music, I don't think any of Apple's walled garden offerings are particularly fair. The App store routinely makes decisions on behalf of users as to what content should be available and what should be proactively removed. As a developer, thats just how I, and many people I work with feel. Strongly. Although, I should thank Trent Reznor of Apple for the wicked template.
For Christsakes, the user opted in by buying and using iTunes Match and allowed it to replace files with a higher bit rate. It misidentified and replaced ones which were his personal music files and not commercial ones.
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Back in the day when I just started digitizing my CD's, if you'd asked me if I wanted some third party to have read/write access to my digital music library, I would have called you nuts.
I bought it, it's mine, and I don't need anyone to manage it for me, thank you very much. I still feel that way.
Now people are keeping the only copies of their music on devices that they don't control, running software they don't control.
And they want us to listen when they complain? Craziness.