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All ethics of the deletion aside, matching on metadata is a weird, crappy approach (and that itself is pretty consistent with my other experiences with iTunes).
by Bartweiss 11y ago
All ethics of the deletion aside, matching on metadata is a weird, crappy approach (and that itself is pretty consistent with my other experiences with iTunes).
It shouldn't be hard to imagine that metadata will have collisions, and include something like a hash of the actual data.
- bisby 11y agoSomeone should make a tool that creates mp3s having the metadata of other real songs for apple to match on.
- rabboRubble 11y agoThere already is... https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ Apparently Amazon uses this tagging service to keep its online music library organized.
- johnny22 11y agowhat the parent poster meant was crafting audio files and metadata that would match what apple checks against ones, such as to get free music
- therealdrag0 11y agoClever.
- hsivonen 11y agoI don't know if it's intentional filling in for songs they couldn't license or metadata matching gone wrong, but occasionally on Spotify a song on an old album is replaced with an inferior remix from a newer album. Intentionally or not, history (what songs actually were on an album) gets edited unless you manage music files yourself. (The Apple behavior described in the article is way worse than what Spotify does, of course.)