Apple's Music app (formerly itunes) is only playing half of the tracks of a recently downloaded album. It then inexplicably skips to (or through) the next songs similarly.

Is it possible this is an anti-piracy measure? Interestingly, the labelled source appears to be 'web' so I'm wondering if the app somehow detects that it's an illicit source.

The problem does not occur in VLC or with other downloaded albums (although I recall something similar happening with Itunes many years ago on a different computer and/or OS so I can only assume the problem is not me and the actual file or app).

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    No, it’s just a bug. Apple Music likes to just kinda randomly fuck up and stop playing an album. Especially with streaming. Even legit Apple Music the streaming service will do this shit from time to time. It’s almost flawlessly on iPhone but sucks balls on Mac OS and Windows.

    • ⲇⲅⲇ@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      It's funny because I only see stupid bugs on Apple and people still thinks it's premium material. It's buggy shit (bad UIX), expensive as shit.

  • WolfLink@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    No but Apple Music will identify tracks that you have added from your own collection, and on other devices will download their version instead of the file you supposedly uploaded, even if your original version was higher quality.

  • Matúš Maštena@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Switch to Android and use Soundbound to download songs from Spotify. I won't recommend the player since I would be downvoted to hell, but my personal favorite is Samsung Music.

  • Goun@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Weird, is it possible that it's streaming a high quality version, but since you didn't pay, it just plays half of it? I haven't used apple stuff in years, so I'm too familiar with it anymore.

    What happens when it stops playing, tho? Does it fail, stop or just go to the next song?

    • FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      hexagon
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      6 months ago

      It skips through songs every song half way through.

      I downloaded a flac version of the album and converted it to m4a - works fine now. Weird.