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WOW. APPLE MUSIC STEALS MUSIC FROM YOUR HARDDRIVE.
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Closehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-pinkstone/apple-stole-my-music-no-s_b_9873638.html
That is fucking insane. How are they not being sued (despite whatever the terms of service might imply - if the terms are that orwellian and drastic, they can be challeged!)
The worst part with this guy is that his original compositions were stored as WAVs, and since Apple Music doesn't support WAVS, they got CONVERTED TO AACs or MP3s, degrading the quality.
Luckily for him he had a backup from a few weeks ago (always backup your files, kids!) but still! WTF is Apple doing? That is greatly overstepping their bounds.
DO NOT SIGN UP FOR APPLE MUSIC
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http://www.snopes.com/apple-music-deleting-files/
Of course, it is not maliciously doing so (I hope), it still can happen "the deletion of files was likely the result of user error or a problem with software." Same shitty result, same solution (say no to iTunes)
What Amber explained was exactly what I’d feared: through the Apple Music subscription, which I had, Apple now deletes files from its users’ computers. When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.
That is fucking insane. How are they not being sued (despite whatever the terms of service might imply - if the terms are that orwellian and drastic, they can be challeged!)
The worst part with this guy is that his original compositions were stored as WAVs, and since Apple Music doesn't support WAVS, they got CONVERTED TO AACs or MP3s, degrading the quality.
Luckily for him he had a backup from a few weeks ago (always backup your files, kids!) but still! WTF is Apple doing? That is greatly overstepping their bounds.
DO NOT SIGN UP FOR APPLE MUSIC
E:
http://www.snopes.com/apple-music-deleting-files/
Of course, it is not maliciously doing so (I hope), it still can happen "the deletion of files was likely the result of user error or a problem with software." Same shitty result, same solution (say no to iTunes)
Well, I have had nothing but shitty experiences with iTunes (though the last time I tried to use it was about 4 years ago), but my techbro friend related to me all of his personal grief with the software that scared me away from ever using it. It sounds like a fucking nightmare.
I don't own any Apple products, so I can't directly relate.
I don't own any Apple products, so I can't directly relate.
Shinan
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I saw this on facebook. Then googled about it and found a bunch of Apple apologetics saying that it's not strictly true. That there was some ambiguous yes/no dialog he clicked to get his music deleted.
Yeah, my experiences with iTunes back in the day was far from positive as well. I had to burn the music bought that way on to a disc, then rip the disc to even get my music on to an MP3 player since I didn't own an iPod.
That makes it not as bad, but still pretty bad. ^^;;
author=Shinan
I saw this on facebook. Then googled about it and found a bunch of Apple apologetics saying that it's not strictly true. That there was some ambiguous yes/no dialog he clicked to get his music deleted.
That makes it not as bad, but still pretty bad. ^^;;
yeah this has been floating around for like a week and is bullshit.
i mean i still don't support apple, but still.
i mean i still don't support apple, but still.
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
I like how the Snopes article labels this as "Mostly False" because Apple didn't intentionally commit thievery, as though the writer weren't completely aware of that and just using a colloquialism.
This kinda reminds me of one time I copied some data off an external hard drive, removed the hard drive, renamed a folder, realized I made a mistake and hit undo, and accidentally hit it twice which made windows undo the copy by deleting said files without any prompt or putting it into the recycling bin. Thanks Windows!
I'm part of the 'no positive experience with itunes' crew. Personally I still use winamp v.old because it can play my weird formats and even convert them to wavs which I can then convert to other formats so I can use them on my phone! I don't see much reason to update or do cloud shit, anything that's good and properly sorted & tagged is on my phone anyways which has much better reliability than anything internet related.
I'm part of the 'no positive experience with itunes' crew. Personally I still use winamp v.old because it can play my weird formats and even convert them to wavs which I can then convert to other formats so I can use them on my phone! I don't see much reason to update or do cloud shit, anything that's good and properly sorted & tagged is on my phone anyways which has much better reliability than anything internet related.
Sooz
They told me I was mad when I said I was going to create a spidertable. Who’s laughing now!!!
5354
I just use WMP. It works and has yet to eat any files, which is all I ask in life.
Avoid iTunes like the plague ever since a friend lost his entire library to it inexplicably. Not that I ever planned on using it, since I abhor just about any Apple product post Performa era. (I am old and crochety and hate when things change.)
Avoid iTunes like the plague ever since a friend lost his entire library to it inexplicably. Not that I ever planned on using it, since I abhor just about any Apple product post Performa era. (I am old and crochety and hate when things change.)
author=Sooz
I like how the Snopes article labels this as "Mostly False" because Apple didn't intentionally commit thievery, as though the writer weren't completely aware of that and just using a colloquialism.
Right?
"I mean, sure Apple deletes your files and can change what file you access, but they aren't strictly stealing them."
To me it seems they delete the files to make users dependent of their service.
Plus all the copyright lunacy of late.
Deleting files is a huge invasion of privacy and violation of rights.
Plus all the copyright lunacy of late.
Deleting files is a huge invasion of privacy and violation of rights.
author=pianotm
Hmm...good to know. Snopes is full of shit, by the way.
so we need a Snopes done on Snopes? I thought they were supposed to be reliable.
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