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Apple Stole My Music

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Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by piyush_soni »

bad_user wrote: post #440
dingo_bat wrote: post #306

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>OneDrive is horrible for backup because it doesn't keep any history of your files. I hadn't considered that. Though a dropbox bug lost my documents and also deleted all version history. That was one reason I stopped using it. Edit: I checked and it seems Onedrive does have version history. > This is why I prefer Dropbox. Dropbox is too expensive and I don't really need 1 TB :/ > Google Drive I will not pay for any G…

Check again because it does not have version history. It only does it for "Office documents". This has been one of the long requested features that's still unaddressed. On Dropbox losing files, never had problems, but I believe you. All software is terrible.

I had once lost Dropbox files, but only because I deleted a folder on my local Dropbox folder and assumed it won't sync that 'deletion' to the cloud. My intention was to sync only some selected folders locally and let the rest be online. Also, I came to know about it later than 30 days as well - which is the time they keep backup of deleted stuff for.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by mpswardle »

sanoli wrote: post #454
burtmacklin wrote: post #269

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> i tend to need a new iPhone every 2-4 months umm... what?

Yeah... 3 iPhones a year... what? Care to explain why?

i find the iPhone 6 to be very breakable, case or no case.

it could be argued i don't care for it that well.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by musesum »

musesum wrote: post #282
Coincoin wrote: post #266

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The problem with Spotify is 25% of their library has that horrible UMG watermark on it. It makes any UMG music before 2013 unlistenable. Apparently, UMG fixed the problem on their side but Spotify don't give enough of a damn about quality to redownload the UMG library.

Wow! Just listened to an A/B test: http://www.mattmontag.com/music/universals-audible-watermark Pretty awful. I wonder why Spotify doesn't correct? Have been listening mostly to electronica on Premium account. So, this is the first I've heard. UMG. Had suggested a mobile collaboration on iOS to UMG, a few years back. But, they were focused on Blackberry, back then. [EDIT] Just tried the example song from the above li…

Followup: found the following comment on a UMG watermark thread:

> This watermark is embedded in UMG tracks on Rdio, Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, and others.

I would subscribe to a service that allowed me block watermarked files.

[edit] removed patent tangent

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by leonroy »

Terretta wrote: post #36

Apple iTunes Match (and Apple Music) subscriber, with 23,000 hand ripped songs, only about 18,000 able to exact match by Apple, 5,000 are less common versions. Also have enabled iCloud Music Library. Note these are three different services, and iCloud Music Library has been the most likely culprit for monkeying with your music, not Apple Music. The combo of all three has deleted or auto-replaced exactly zero of my cu…

I can say for 100% certain that the combination of iTunes Match and Apple Music completely botched about 600 songs in my library.

I restored a backup, turned off Match and Apple Music and obtained a refund. Suffice to say it was the first week of Apple Music but still, it was pretty appalling that my carefully tagged library and artwork were overwritten with zero warning.

Apple do tend to release things a little half baked sometimes - especially when it pertains to cloud services - sadly the customer's data is the casualty which is a shame since it reflects a very cavalier attitude to user data.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by jkestner »

braythwayt wrote: post #455
jkestner wrote: post #407

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Maybe Apple should hire one of the many software engineers and UI designers who are visionary in the same way that Ive is in hardware.

This is very difficult. If you’re a great software designer, you probably want to work for a company that says, “Software is in our DNA.” A company where the CEO gets up on their hind legs at every all-hands meeting and announces “Our success depends upon shipping the world’s greatest software designs.” Why would you want to go work for a company where at every such all-hands, you have to sit through executive after…

You're thinking of Doug Bowman. http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

Yes, it's difficult. It's less that Apple needs to hire a famous designer and more that it has to give a designer (there are many badasses in-house) serious authority. Apple has to realize it's lost the software leadership that it used to take pride in for that to happen.

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Post by tripzilch »

mistersquid wrote: post #403
rsync wrote: post #344

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"But, if you insist on using files that don't have a metadata standard, the only way to organize them is in the database of the library application." Again, I disagree - see my response further up the thread for how to get around this problem with verbose naming: Ferry, Bryan - Taxi - 03 - Answer Me - 2m46s.wav

Your proposal to store track info in with verbose naming isn't very robust and doesn't solve even the most basic problems that a simple metadata scheme does. For one, even in your specific limited case of Bryan Ferry's album _Taxi_ there are 5 different versions of the album from 5 different countries[0]. Furthermore, your verbose naming proposal is not only unequipped to handle something as basic as alternate versio…

> Your proposal to store track info in with verbose naming isn't very robust and doesn't solve even the most basic problems that a simple metadata scheme does.

But that's how anyone who is serious about collecting digital music has been ordering it since ages. Sure, I never considered putting track length in the filename as :) (but I can see why), and if I can help it I have them tagged correctly too. But the file/folder structure is how I keep it organised.

There may be better ways to go about this, but it at least needs to be an actual improvement. iTunes is not.

Currently I'm experimenting with a command line tool called 'beets', which from reading its docs, definitely has a philosophy that aligns with mine. Unfortunately I haven't quite figured out how to tell it where to get the metadata from, it defaults to MusicBrainz which seems to have quite a few inaccuracies in their data (spelling of "Kung-Fu", hyphenated or with spaces I don't care really but if you use both spellings on the same album, one of them is wrong). It's got plugins for discogs and figure-out-from-pathname so that's good, but then it still uses MusicBrainz too. All in all it's a bit fiddly, but I can't really imagine a way to do it better, if you want have accuracy, keep control, some assistance with automatic tagging, but without messing up weird edge-cases like the classical albums and bootleg recordings mentioned above (for which 'beets' tries real hard to do the right thing, that being what you decide it to be).

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Post by ryan-allen »

RussianCow wrote: post #149
ryan-allen wrote: post #118

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You should try Windows 10, I've been Apple free for a while now. I'll never go back to OS X.

I don't know if I'm alone, but I find Windows 10 horrible. It consistently freezes on me for several seconds at a time (and usually when I'm doing something important), it takes longer to fully boot (background services seem to take way longer to start), it uses an incredible amount of CPU and disk in the background for no reason, the new Control Panel is impossible to sort through, and the overall UI/UX is a step ba…

I'm running 10 on a 3.5 year old i7 at home, and a brand new i7 at work.

I haven't had any significant problems with freezing and boot times.

I am a little biased as I'm doing C# MVC so I'm using Visual Studio, I think it's all pretty great.

You do have to get used to the new control panel, but all of the old panels are still there for you to use (I am nearly 100% sure), but it's not really _that_ bad. You get used to it.

I run Android on my phone so I'm pretty sure that overall I have no real privacy from any agency that really want to get in to my business... oh well.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by Too »

onion2k wrote: post #5

I can't think of a single reason why Apple would want to delete the files from the user's computer apart from an intent to lock the user in to the service by making it tremendously hard to leave. That's the black hole of UI dark patterns.

Ransomware at its best.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by oarsinsync »

dingo_bat wrote: post #320
oarsinsync wrote: post #172

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This isn't about a lack of expandable storage (all Macs have at least one USB port, some come with SD card slots), but rather that a lot of Macs come with very small SSDs. I can totally see how this might have seemed like a good idea. Shame it's just... not.

I was kinda assuming the iphone here. Didn't think the app on a desktop OS would show that behavior. Is this true? Do people really run out of space on laptops and desktops due to photos? I just checked the apple website and it seems you're right. 3 out of the 5 available Macbook pro variants have <= 256GB storage.

> I had just explained to Amber that 122 GB of music files were missing from my laptop

This is very much about a laptop rather than a phone. And yep, I'm also suffering from this. I've got a 2010 MacBook Air with 256GB storage. I'm down to 10GB free space and struggling to decide how to cope with the now 160GB Photos library.

Re: Apple Stole My Music

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Post by therealdrag0 »

johnny22 wrote: post #429
rabboRubble wrote: post #414

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There already is... https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ Apparently Amazon uses this tagging service to keep its online music library organized.

what the parent poster meant was crafting audio files and metadata that would match what apple checks against ones, such as to get free music

Clever.
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