Apple’s Music app (formerly itunes) is only playing half of the tracks of a recently downloaded album. It then inexplicably skips to (or through) the next songs similarly.
Is it possible this is an anti-piracy measure? Interestingly, the labelled source appears to be ‘web’ so I’m wondering if the app somehow detects that it’s an illicit source.
The problem does not occur in VLC or with other downloaded albums (although I recall something similar happening with Itunes many years ago on a different computer and/or OS so I can only assume the problem is not me and the actual file or app).
No, it’s just a bug. Apple Music likes to just kinda randomly fuck up and stop playing an album. Especially with streaming. Even legit Apple Music the streaming service will do this shit from time to time. It’s almost flawlessly on iPhone but sucks balls on Mac OS and Windows.
It’s funny because I only see stupid bugs on Apple and people still thinks it’s premium material. It’s buggy shit (bad UIX), expensive as shit.
No but Apple Music will identify tracks that you have added from your own collection, and on other devices will download their version instead of the file you supposedly uploaded, even if your original version was higher quality.
Google Music did this back in the day, I lost versions of tracks that I couldn’t find anywhere again, infuriating.
Interesting world we live in
Proprietary software users: Ah, my apple music is fucked up, Spotify charged me twice, Netflix blocked me when I was traveling, I paid for this app on iOS $10 and it’s barely working
Other users: I press a button and my jellyseer asks *arr to download all episodes of a show I want to watch, when i start watching my hass dims the lights, and I’m private, secure, and at the same time the show is being shared to a lot of other people for free
If you pirated the album, presumably it is free of any DRM. In this case the most that itunes could infer is that you didn’t buy it from the itunes store, which isn’t the same thing as inferring that you pirated it. So it’s safe to assume whatever you’re experiencing isn’t an antipiracy measure, but either a bug or some issue with the album rip you downloaded. Without knowing the source I’d lean toward the latter, because lossy transcodes, bad rips and bad tags are commonplace in many places where pirated music is available.
As an aside, I fucking hate that I can’t uninstall this shit on my work Mac. I use another media player and when it’s open the media keys work fine but if I forget to open and and hit play that cursed thing just looms on the screen to remind me that I can’t get rid of it.
I recently had the same issue in the Apple Music Android app
Weird, is it possible that it’s streaming a high quality version, but since you didn’t pay, it just plays half of it? I haven’t used apple stuff in years, so I’m too familiar with it anymore.
What happens when it stops playing, tho? Does it fail, stop or just go to the next song?
It skips through songs every song half way through.
I downloaded a flac version of the album and converted it to m4a - works fine now. Weird.
Switch to Android and use Soundbound to download songs from Spotify. I won’t recommend the player since I would be downvoted to hell, but my personal favorite is Samsung Music.
I won’t recommend the player since I would be downvoted to hell
You shouldn’t care about downvotes.
Samsung music… Can somebody show them the door?
(Kidding, kidding, who cares, i upvoted👍)
