iTunes Match begins analyzing waveforms, not just metadata

Remember that Apple Music fiasco where songs from users’ Macs were getting replaced with mismatched tracks from Apple’s catalog? An iTunes bug might have been the main culprit of that, but the problem with the mismatching of songs still remained. That was iTunes Match’s problem.But not anymore, according to The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple. It seems that it has slowly rolled out audio ...

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Apple Music isn’t deleting your music … and is deleting your music

Last week, we saw a blogger express his rage against the Apple because he had all of his music stored on his computer deleted after he had subscribed to Apple Music. Being told that “the software is functioning as it’s intended” did not help the matter. iMore‘s Serenity Caldwell went into how Apple Music, by design, could not delete a user’s local music library without user input. Still, the problems kept coming up.The result was that every track had to be ...

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The Apple Music deletion conundrum

On Wednesday, James Pinkstone of Vellum Atlanta penned a blog post about how “Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.” In it, Pinkstone details how his subscription to Apple Music had caused 122GB of music — from downloads to his own compositions — to disappear.Signing up for Apple Music, he said, triggered iTunes song matching software and it scanned his entire local library of music files before deleting the whole thing.Where iTunes was able match songs, it gave him an equivalent ...

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Apple outage takes down App Stores, iTunes, iMessage for an hour

As if the Mac App Store certificate issue wasn’t enough for Apple this week, it seems that a service outage has taken down several of Apple’s online services this evening.Those officially include the App Store, Apple TV, the iBooks Store, iTunes Match, the iTunes Store, the Mac App Store and Radio. There were also unlisted issues going on with Apple’s Online Store as Down Detector has registered a spike in problem reports for the latter.

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Apple fixes Apple Music bugs with recent iTunes 12.2.1 update

Apple’s launch of Apple Music has been met with mixed impressions. While some of us like the service, others still can’t find a reason to move away from the freemium services of Spotify and others. The launch of Apple Music was also plagued with a few bugs for users of other Apple Services, but that seems to have gotten fixed today.Apple has just released iTunes 12.2.1 to the public, and the update is mostly focused on fixing bugs that were left by the Apple Music but. Customers using

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