Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
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Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#2In the case cited in the Reddit link, having files you legitimately own DRMed, replaced, or deleted seems like a pretty clear illegal act. I think the argument could be made that Apple could be charged with something worse than ransomware (since that merely encrypts your files and doesn't change, delete, or prevent them from being used as before once they are unencrypted).
Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#3I’ve never seen this happen but I only ever drag over stuff that isn’t on Apple Music, so perhaps that is why?
Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#4In the Reddit thread there is a comment with a possible solution: https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/zl8ko3/ysk_a...
Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#5Wasnt it always the case that Itunes messed with peoples files and replaced metainfo etc?
Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#6Apple Music includes the old iTunes Match features, so it matches your local library with the Apple Music library if you allow it to do so, and uploads only the songs it can't match.
This process is not perfect so some songs might be matched to a different version.
Anyway, even if I download a matches song it's DRM free on my Mac, and Apple Music won't automatically delete your local files. But I guess bugs happens, the app is quite buggy in general.
Edit: it seems it download a version with DRM if you set it to download in Lossless format, but my songs weren't originally lossless, and if I set it to download the AAC version the file is DRM free.
Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#7In the case cited in the Reddit link, having files you legitimately own DRMed, replaced, or deleted seems like a pretty clear illegal act. I think the argument could be made that Apple could be charged with something worse than ransomware (since that merely encrypts your files and doesn't change, delete, or prevent them from being used as before once they are unencrypted).
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Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#8I have curated local music library in Music app, with many rare recordings and versions that does no exist in streaming anywhere.
I also subscribe to Apple Music.
This works fine. The only gripe I have is I can't make playlists in Apple Music when its setup like this. I don't care much though because I don't use streaming like that.
If files are important to you, keep a backup, outside of cloud, or in another vendors cloud.
Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#9Apple Music includes the old iTunes Match features, so it matches your local library with the Apple Music library if you allow it to do so, and uploads only the songs it can't match. This process is not perfect so some songs might be matched to a different version. Anyway, even if I download a matches song it's DRM free on my Mac, and Apple Music won't automatically delete your local files. But I guess bugs happens,…
This is exactly my experience as well. Not an issue imo, you have to preserve the original files still.
Re: Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions
#10If you don't pay for the product you are the product. Except if you pay for the product, then you are the product too.