“Subscribers of Apple’s iTunes Match service are reporting that explicit songs in their library are getting swapped out for the censored ‘clean’ versions,” Tom Cheredar reports for VentureBeat.
“iTunes Match, which Apple launched in November, is a [US$24.99/year] music service that gives legal access to any songs currently in your iTunes music library,” Cheredar reports. “But due to a glitch in the iTunes Match programming, users can only download the non-explicit version of their songs.”
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Buster Heine reports for Cult of Mac, “To be fair to Apple, this weird change only occured on a couple of the rap songs I downloaded to my iPhone from iTunes Match, but there is definitely a problem here.”
“My downloading skills are top notch, but I still double-checked to see if the files in my iTunes Library were the clean versions of those tracks,” Heine reports. “They weren’t.”
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“A 9to5 reader emailed Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services about the issue a couple of weeks ago and received a response from one of Eddy Cue’s engineers,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.
“According to the engineer, Apple is currently investigating the issue and working on a fix,” Gurman reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: Might be a bug, but while fixing it, Apple should make it a feature that users can turn off and on. It would be very useful for parents with young children.
I can think of a certain “frothy mixture” who probably agrees with MDN’s take.
Typical Lib knee-jerker spouting off before you understand what’s being said, regardless of how basic and elementary it is.
Why would allowing parents (or anyone else) the option to replace explicit with clean versions for car trips, etc. with their kids be something about which you could possibly disagree?
Sorry, Ottawa mark, but, as usual, you come across as quite the sanctimonious asshole yourself.
There are plenty of times where I’d like to be able to turn off explicit but have clean versions – when my elderly grandparents are in the car, or my small children, for two examples.
“Forget You” would be appropriate at those times.
At this time, right here in particular, you vapid Liberal twit, the more appropriate version would be “Fuck You.”
Actually, it is you and Sarah who came across as sanctimonious and assholey. It was actually a clever twist on the MDN Take, because “cleaning up” other content ;would help filter the less attractive definitions of Santorum.
You guys sure do have a hair trigger. A lack of humor is a terrible thing. Review what Ottawa Mark wrote, then review what you wrote. If the hypocrisy isn’t apparent, then I am not sure if there is a cure.
Your rabid, wrong-headed politics have cost you your rationality and your sanity.
Mdn you suck
Why does “Mdn” suck, genius?
Can you imagine the outcry from the Apple haters if the mistake went the other way replacing clean versions with explicit?
The MDN Take was my very thought when I read the title.
An optional feature definitely, especially if its the parents paying for all that music.
Otherwise not. Censorship for adults is all a bit nanny state.
Only a complete fuckwit could possibly have any issues with MDN’s take.
Look up “complete fuckwit” in the dictionary and you get a photo of Ottawa Mark.
Wishful thinking. If only the world ordered itself according to your command…
Apple still censors “cum” in “Cum Spiritu Tuo” and this is a phrase from religious music.
Not many people use Latin nowadays.
Now if the suggestion in MDN’s take could be applied to MDN comments.
+1
There is more ” trash ” on MDN these days than in Steve Ballmer’s office!
I noticed this “bug” day 1 and reported it. iTunes Match swapped out my explicit version of “Roses” by Outkast with the clean version. Surprisingly though it did not do the same thing with any other songs in my library – just that one.