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Apple is smart enough to determine what's in an photograph, but if I paste text into a sentence in iOS I still need to manually add spaces and format punctuatio

Apple is smart enough to determine what's in an photograph, but if I paste text into a sentence in iOS I still need to manually add spaces and format punctuation. I will never forget the time iTunes deleted my music library, or it's inability to deduplicate identical songs. Power.

mabedan 5y ago
do this day, if you switch the country of your apple account, you will lose your entire music library.
- sneak 5y ago
  Cloud music libraries aren't yours to begin with, even when working right. Torrent the actual files.
DavideNL 5y ago
Even worse, iTunes deleted my Music and all my precious playlists, and because it was stored in the cloud it wasn’t included in my Macbook backups… I was so pissed of, i’ve avoided iTunes & Apple Music ever since.
insickness 5y ago
I hate hate hate iTunes. My biggest gripe with iPhone has always been that I don't have direct access to my OS files. I have to spend an inordinate amount of time 'syncing' my device instead of just copying a few tracks to it.
- robomartin 5y ago
  > I hate hate hate iTunes Yup. Same here. This is why I don't have my large collection of CD's in my phone and just use Pandora. Going back to iPhone 3 days, iTunes did not allow me to import my CD's into my device and play them as entire CD's. If I want to listen to Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" or Pink Floyd's "The Wall", it's a nightmare. iTunes is song-based, not album based. Well, the above, and many others, are works you pretty much listen to in order as recorded. In some cases (The Wall, Brandenburg Concertos, etc.) the works span multiple CD's. I stopped using iTunes and storing music on my iPhone because of this. I don't enjoy music the way Apple seems to think you should. I have no clue if they fixed this since iPhone 3 days. I would not be surprised if they have not. In sharp contrast to this, I have not problem playing single or multi-CD works as intended using Windows Media Player on my desktop, where I have my entire CD collection stored. This, for me, is the single reason I would instantly jump into a Windows phone if Microsoft got their heads out of their asses, committed to doing a good job and integrated a phone experience with the desktop. They would have to regain my trust, but as a life-long user of both Apple and MS desktop products, I would absolutely welcome a better phone experience than Apple has delivered over the years. I really want to abandon iPhone and go to a good Windows phone, but MS does not seem interested in creating that opportunity. Oh, yes, and to address iCloud, back in the early days it managed to delete not only whatever I had on iTunes (which I own on CD's so I don't care) but all of my contacts. Thankfully I had my contacts stored in my prior phone (I think it was a Blackberry). After disconnecting from iCloud I entered them manually and never again enabled iCloud all the way up to my current iPhone X.
erfgh 5y ago
They have a database of known bad photos and they just check against it.
- mrits 5y ago
  How do you know it is a database of bad photos?
  - Spooky23 5y ago
    It’s a well known dataset that has been in use for many years for this purpose.
    - mrits 5y ago
      So you don't know
    - themaninthedark 5y ago
      I think the question is: since it is a secret database that contains pictures that are illegal to view, how can you be sure that everything in the database is actually bad?
    - noptd 5y ago
      ... says the quasi-government agency with zero accountability structure that keeps the dataset secret. What could go wrong?
lucky_cloud 5y ago
Apple did worse than delete my iTunes library. It just got corrupted in such a way that most of my music was unavailable, and the metadata got scrambled in bizarre ways. I would have e.g. Daydream Nation but only 5 tracks, and the artist was Bob Dylan, and the cover art was a Freddy Gibbs album. Playlists had tracks removed - sometimes completely emptied out. It was just like that one day, and all I'd done around that time was play music. The same kind of problems existed on my Mac, iPhone, and the web UI, but each one had its own set of fucked up metadata. I had the same music library since iTunes 1.0, moved from one Mac to the next for almost 20 years. I wanted my play counts and the last time I played things and all of the nice metadata that iTunes used to have. Worst of all, I couldn't restore from a backup because the cloud library becomes the canonical library as soon as you enable it. I tried restoring my library from a backup, but as soon as the cloud library synced, it would screw everything up again. As long as I was offline, my restored backup was in perfect condition. Apple support was useless of course. They just told me to delete and add my music again. That's thousands of songs, and doing that deletes the metadata I wanted to keep. All I wanted was for them to reset my cloud library as if I'd never synced anything, so my working library could sync up. The only way to do that would be to stop my subscription and then subscribe again. I spent probably 30 hours trying to fix it but ended up just accepting that my personal metadata was gone, other than existing on the last working backup. Doing what Apple support suggested was not reliable either. Deleting music in one UI had unpredictable effects in another. Adding the music I own, ripped from CDs, failed often when Apple tried to match it and then get the various libraries in sync. I had to remove and import some albums 3 or 4 times before it was consistent across devices and the web UI. My library is still fucked in a lot of ways, but the music I want to hear most often is mostly there. The thing that prevents me from just going back to syncing to my phone is that some music is only available from their music subscription, and that can't be synced over a wire. They're also the only streaming service that will actually upload music it can't match. I'd move to Tidal or Spotify or somewhere else if any of them offered that. I want to be able to hear my obscure music in the same app as I use for big label music. Rant over, back to work.
- croutonwagon 5y ago
  I have had something similar. I was trying to import/convert a bunch of flaac files (which apple cant read and requires they be converted to apple lossless.) But i tend to be cloud adverse. So my library is on a NAS. When my mac mini blew it up, i had to restore my entire music library. Then every single file could not be found..So I deleted the entire itunes library (which deleted the music folder structure, i thought i told it not too, but it could have been my fault). So i restored the directory structure again, and then had to re-import and rebuild the library. All playlists were gone. Play counts, favorites, checked songs (because itunes loves to convert things and make duplicates) were gone and needing to be redone. And now it seems it wont recognize flaac files anyhow. I have been meaning to setup something like Navidrome and be done with it but i dont really like the thought of another self hosted server. https://www.navidrome.org/ https://www.navidrome.org/
robertoandred 5y ago
Again, they're not determining what's /in/ the photograph. They're determining that one photograph is a copy of another.
- techbio 5y ago
  Fair clarification, but my other points stand.
sib 5y ago
Forget deduplicating songs, how about reliably deduplicating contacts?

mabedan 5y ago

do this day, if you switch the country of your apple account, you will lose your entire music library.

sneak 5y ago
Cloud music libraries aren't yours to begin with, even when working right. Torrent the actual files.

DavideNL 5y ago

Even worse, iTunes deleted my Music and all my precious playlists, and because it was stored in the cloud it wasn’t included in my Macbook backups… I was so pissed of, i’ve avoided iTunes & Apple Music ever since.

insickness 5y ago

I hate hate hate iTunes. My biggest gripe with iPhone has always been that I don't have direct access to my OS files. I have to spend an inordinate amount of time 'syncing' my device instead of just copying a few tracks to it.

robomartin 5y ago
> I hate hate hate iTunes Yup. Same here. This is why I don't have my large collection of CD's in my phone and just use Pandora. Going back to iPhone 3 days, iTunes did not allow me to import my CD's into my device and play them as entire CD's. If I want to listen to Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" or Pink Floyd's "The Wall", it's a nightmare. iTunes is song-based, not album based. Well, the above, and many others, are works you pretty much listen to in order as recorded. In some cases (The Wall, Brandenburg Concertos, etc.) the works span multiple CD's. I stopped using iTunes and storing music on my iPhone because of this. I don't enjoy music the way Apple seems to think you should. I have no clue if they fixed this since iPhone 3 days. I would not be surprised if they have not. In sharp contrast to this, I have not problem playing single or multi-CD works as intended using Windows Media Player on my desktop, where I have my entire CD collection stored. This, for me, is the single reason I would instantly jump into a Windows phone if Microsoft got their heads out of their asses, committed to doing a good job and integrated a phone experience with the desktop. They would have to regain my trust, but as a life-long user of both Apple and MS desktop products, I would absolutely welcome a better phone experience than Apple has delivered over the years. I really want to abandon iPhone and go to a good Windows phone, but MS does not seem interested in creating that opportunity. Oh, yes, and to address iCloud, back in the early days it managed to delete not only whatever I had on iTunes (which I own on CD's so I don't care) but all of my contacts. Thankfully I had my contacts stored in my prior phone (I think it was a Blackberry). After disconnecting from iCloud I entered them manually and never again enabled iCloud all the way up to my current iPhone X.

erfgh 5y ago

They have a database of known bad photos and they just check against it.

mrits 5y ago
How do you know it is a database of bad photos?
- Spooky23 5y ago
  It’s a well known dataset that has been in use for many years for this purpose.
  - mrits 5y ago
    So you don't know
  - themaninthedark 5y ago
    I think the question is: since it is a secret database that contains pictures that are illegal to view, how can you be sure that everything in the database is actually bad?
  - noptd 5y ago
    ... says the quasi-government agency with zero accountability structure that keeps the dataset secret. What could go wrong?

lucky_cloud 5y ago

Apple did worse than delete my iTunes library. It just got corrupted in such a way that most of my music was unavailable, and the metadata got scrambled in bizarre ways. I would have e.g. Daydream Nation but only 5 tracks, and the artist was Bob Dylan, and the cover art was a Freddy Gibbs album. Playlists had tracks removed - sometimes completely emptied out. It was just like that one day, and all I'd done around that time was play music. The same kind of problems existed on my Mac, iPhone, and the web UI, but each one had its own set of fucked up metadata. I had the same music library since iTunes 1.0, moved from one Mac to the next for almost 20 years. I wanted my play counts and the last time I played things and all of the nice metadata that iTunes used to have. Worst of all, I couldn't restore from a backup because the cloud library becomes the canonical library as soon as you enable it. I tried restoring my library from a backup, but as soon as the cloud library synced, it would screw everything up again. As long as I was offline, my restored backup was in perfect condition. Apple support was useless of course. They just told me to delete and add my music again. That's thousands of songs, and doing that deletes the metadata I wanted to keep. All I wanted was for them to reset my cloud library as if I'd never synced anything, so my working library could sync up. The only way to do that would be to stop my subscription and then subscribe again. I spent probably 30 hours trying to fix it but ended up just accepting that my personal metadata was gone, other than existing on the last working backup. Doing what Apple support suggested was not reliable either. Deleting music in one UI had unpredictable effects in another. Adding the music I own, ripped from CDs, failed often when Apple tried to match it and then get the various libraries in sync. I had to remove and import some albums 3 or 4 times before it was consistent across devices and the web UI. My library is still fucked in a lot of ways, but the music I want to hear most often is mostly there. The thing that prevents me from just going back to syncing to my phone is that some music is only available from their music subscription, and that can't be synced over a wire. They're also the only streaming service that will actually upload music it can't match. I'd move to Tidal or Spotify or somewhere else if any of them offered that. I want to be able to hear my obscure music in the same app as I use for big label music. Rant over, back to work.

croutonwagon 5y ago
I have had something similar. I was trying to import/convert a bunch of flaac files (which apple cant read and requires they be converted to apple lossless.) But i tend to be cloud adverse. So my library is on a NAS. When my mac mini blew it up, i had to restore my entire music library. Then every single file could not be found..So I deleted the entire itunes library (which deleted the music folder structure, i thought i told it not too, but it could have been my fault). So i restored the directory structure again, and then had to re-import and rebuild the library. All playlists were gone. Play counts, favorites, checked songs (because itunes loves to convert things and make duplicates) were gone and needing to be redone. And now it seems it wont recognize flaac files anyhow. I have been meaning to setup something like Navidrome and be done with it but i dont really like the thought of another self hosted server. https://www.navidrome.org/ https://www.navidrome.org/

robertoandred 5y ago

Again, they're not determining what's /in/ the photograph. They're determining that one photograph is a copy of another.

techbio 5y ago
Fair clarification, but my other points stand.

sib 5y ago

Forget deduplicating songs, how about reliably deduplicating contacts?