“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.