"... 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..."
"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out? Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then? They don't want to call for peace then.
PoppaGeorge Member since Nov 07th 2004 10384 posts
Thu May-05-16 03:18 PM
3. "Thing is, this kind of stuff shouldn't be happening in the first place" In response to Reply # 1
especially not to music you've composed yourself.
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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out? Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then? They don't want to call for peace then.
9. "That is completely besides the point. " In response to Reply # 4
Sure its the smart thing to do. I absolutely agree on making sure you have backups of your files. However what if the software decided to delete some non musical files that you didn't think to back up? Some files have similiar file format names. mp4/mpeg4/mpeg-2/mp3 Some of those are music file formats, some are video and some are both.
Should not be deleting anything without permission. At the very least this should be an option on the software to ignore certain file formants and from certain folders.
2. "Also didn't read but here's a quick summary of my experience with Apple ..." In response to Reply # 0
Once I realized I needed to first sync my personal music collection to icloud first, before turning on Apple Music things worked exactly as I expected. Originally I tried using Apple Music without syncing my personal library to iCloud. When I did this songs seemed to disappear. Upon further review, the original files were still there but I just couldn't listen to them on devices with Apple Music enabled (they were stashed in the background somehow).
After starting fresh, disabling Apple Music, synching my entire iTunes library to iCloud and then turning on Apple Music...Nothing was missing or deleted, I have all my original files plus any new ones I pull down from the cloud. Synching up to iCloud first basically baselines your music collection before you make additions via Apple Music. So if you have itunes on your phone and computer you have to keep synching that music to iCloud so that those tracks stay available to you. Otherwise they don't get deleted but they get hidden in the background and appear as no longer available even though the raw files are still sitting there on your devices.
I have a ton of music that is not available on iTunes...stuff me and my friends have made over the years. It may make up half my music collection overall...none of it is being compromised at all.
You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
8. "Apple music or Apple MATCH" In response to Reply # 0
Considering 99.9999999% of my mp3's are from ill gotten means, I never had that problem, or even Apple music* scanning my files.
Apple Match, however, will fuck your shit up
*That said, if you've got start playing files you have the physical copy off in itunes off apple music stream it does get weird. I remember how i couldn't get Drake+Future to stay on my ipod because it would get 'confused'. I assume because when you stream it saves a copy of that mp3 so you wont have to re-stream it and then it conflicts.
>https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/ > >This is the important part: > >"... 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..." > > >http://static.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1188/11888561/2442643-0604742403-35818.gif > > >--------------------------- > >"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the >peace when we were getting laid out? >Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? >Where is the peace then? >They don't want to call for peace then.
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