If you trace my Ask the iTunes Guy editorial , you know that I answer lots of questions about problem with iTunes . Sometimes , I extend solutions to common conundrums , or workarounds when there ’s no easy way to do something , but sometimes I have no reply ; there are simply thing that are break . And that ’s what I want to babble about this week : Something broken in iTunes that only Apple can fix . Occasionally , you trifle track using iCloud Music Library , and what you find out is not what you selected .
This generally find for two reasonableness . The first is when you have a live record album in your iTunes library , and you play it on your iPhone , and you hear a serial publication of studio rendering of the same track instead of the concert you were looking forward to . The second is when you have euphony with “ explicit ” lyrics , and you terminate up hearing the “ clean ” translation .
The first happens a peck , and Macworld editorSusie Ochs had this come about last year with a unrecorded Phish album that was in her library . It happen to former Macworld editor Jason Snelljust last calendar week , though not with a Phish trail , and the other means around : a live version of a U2 call played instead of the studio cut . I ’m not a Phish fan , nor a big lover of U2 , but I ’m a Deadhead ( a devotee of the Grateful Dead ) , and when that happens to me , I ’m more than irked . ( particularly because I have so many resilient recording of the Grateful Dead , and they are all unlike . Really . They are . Trust me . )
A friend say me recently about endeavor to listen to an Amy Winehouse album , and getting the “ clean ” version . As he order , “ Amy Winehouse without expressed lyrics is not Amy Winehouse . ”
When this happens , users have no resort . You ca n’t flag a path as being the incorrect rendering , and if you remove the master from your iTunes library , and then re - add them , they ’ll get pit to the same faulty version .
This happen if you use iCloud Music Library , but not iTunes Match . The formermatches tail just by their metadata(the name of the track , its album , and its artist ) , whereas iTunes Match uses acoustical fingerprinting to get the right version of a running .
With Apple Maps , you’re able to indicate if a business or landmark has the wrong name , or if it ’s in an incorrect placement . Near where I hold up , Apple Maps is full of mistakes ; I ’ve give in at least a XII corrections , and , to be fair to Apple , they get corrected in a couple of twenty-four hours each meter . ( I get a notification each time a correction has been made . )
you could submit corrections in Apple Maps , so why not iTunes ?
But with iTunes — specifically iCloud Music Library — there ’s no style you’re able to do this . iTunes just look at you and shrugs , oblivious to your pain . I signify , come on ; the studio apartment variation of Eyes of the World is okay , but it ’s nothing like the many live versions the stagnant played over the years .
Apple take to include a room to slacken off incorrect tracks . Because this is more than just annoying ; it ’s unjust . You may really want to pick up that live album , or you may not like live album at all . And if you corrupt a song with explicit lyrics , you do n’t need to hear the bowdlerized version . You have the right wing to hear what you want .
It would n’t be hard to implement ; Apple already has this in Apple Maps . Let users choose something from the Account menu , or the File > Library menu , such as Report an issuing . or else of take Wrong Location on Map , or Location Is Missing , the duologue could learn Incorrect Song Version . It would require that humans — not algorithms — check each submission , but it would remove a lot of defeat for those using iCloud Music Library .
