Big problem with Apple Music being fixed

[Kevin Lancaster]

Big problem with Apple Music being fixed

Apple is addressing a lingering problem with its Apple Music service.

 

[Hush9300]

Maybe my album art will now be correct across devices too. It's only correct on the iMac.

 

[prod]

I wonder if this fixes the issue where iTunes just refuses to play <random> song from an album. iTunes is just awful.

 

[backstreetboy]

Taking it to the web? No? Sod off then!

 

[Gudnews]

Maybe my album art will now be correct across devices too. It's only correct on the iMac.

No album art, no party!

 

[Hush9300]

No album art, no party!

Yeah, I believe it to be due to Apple Music only storing one version of a song to save space. So if a song was on compilation and that version was stored on the server then the devices that sync would get that compilation album art.

It's a pain in the backside.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Not big enough to be massive?

 

[SauRoNZA]

For those who don't want to click the bait...

Apple is fixing a lingering problem with its music matching service built into Apple Music, TechCrunch reported.

According to the report, Apple is switching to audio fingerprinting for matching songs in your collection to what is available in the iTunes library.

This is part of a feature that lets you stream songs you already have in your music collection from Apple’s iCloud. Previously, it used poorer matching technology, stated the report.

It also applied digital rights management to matched tracks that you downloaded from iCloud.

If you deleted a track from your PC and downloaded it again from Apple, it would be copyright protected.

With the change, this will no longer be the case.

The Loop reported that Apple Music subscribers are being switched over to the improved matching system at a rate of 1% to 2% per day.

Personally can't say I've ever had these problems.

 

[Cassady]

[Thanks for the summary! ^^ ]

Funny that I should have noticed it this morning (or at least, part of it)...

Have the soundtrack to Almost Famous >> Tiny Dancer (Elton John) started playing on the iPhone in the car on way to work, but with the Gnomeo(?) artwork, i.e. the soundtrack album to the Romeo/Juliette garden-gnome story, where Tiny Dancer is obviously also on it, rather than showing the Almost Famous cover-art...

I was frankly quite surprised at how much that annoyed me.

This will hopefully go some way in getting things like this fixed. And makes sense why (with only one version being stored) this would be happening...