Scottfromoh

Q: iTunes Match explicit/clean music switch

Hey everyone,

 

First I guess that I should point out that I am using the current version of iTunes and iPhone software. Here's my problem.

 

I bought Drake's Take Care album (explicit and hardcopy) a few weeks ago and imported it into my iTunes library. In the computer that I imported it on, it plays the correct versions of the songs, but when I go to play the album on my iPhone 4s, it plays the clean versions. So somehow, iTunes Match put the clean version in the cloud, instead of matching it with the explicit.

 

Another oddity I found was with Mac Miller's Blue Slide Park (also explicit and hardcopy) that I imported into iTunes. When I play this album on my home computer it plays fine but once I play them on my iPhone, it plays completely different songs, except for a couple that play correctly. iTunes Match apparently did not match these songs correctly either.

 

As a side note, I imported Coldplay's new album into my iTunes library as well, and it matched correctly in iTunes Match.

 

I have tried turning on and off iTunes Match on my iPhone as the Apple Support lady said, but this did not solve the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I've not noticed if any other music is incorrectly matched in my library or just these two albums.

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 2:09 PM

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  • by DaveCarson,

    DaveCarson DaveCarson Sep 5, 2012 11:12 AM in response to Scottfromoh
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    Sep 5, 2012 11:12 AM in response to Scottfromoh

    I don't know if this is working for everyone, but I just deleted the local copies of four albums that I'd uploaded the explicit versions of and got back clean.  I streamed them and found that they're now matched to the explicit verisons so I just downloaded them again.  Specifically they were:

     

    Ludacris - Theater of the Mind

    Ludacris - Red Light District

    Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang

    Lil Wayne - The Carter III

  • by Tandrew86,

    Tandrew86 Tandrew86 Sep 19, 2012 7:46 PM in response to Scottfromoh
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    Sep 19, 2012 7:46 PM in response to Scottfromoh

    I just want to reiterate how bad this problem is in iOS6 since you can't individually delete these songs so to get the explicit versions you have to delete EVERYTHING you've downloaded and start over until you get the right one and hope it doesn't happen down the line.

  • by rookfood,

    rookfood rookfood Nov 10, 2012 8:09 AM in response to cleghorn
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    Nov 10, 2012 8:09 AM in response to cleghorn

    Hi. Skelethon by Aesop Rock is broken for me too.

  • by runebinder,

    runebinder runebinder Oct 1, 2013 2:12 PM in response to Scottfromoh
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    Oct 1, 2013 2:12 PM in response to Scottfromoh

    Only noticed this today when playing Sugar by System of a Down. Then came across this thread, not looking too hopeful that this will be fixed going by the fact it's still ongoing.

  • by BadApp,

    BadApp BadApp Oct 14, 2013 3:17 AM in response to runebinder
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    Oct 14, 2013 3:17 AM in response to runebinder

    True. There could have been a simple fix already.

  • by chunky monkey1,

    chunky monkey1 chunky monkey1 Dec 25, 2013 3:05 PM in response to donileo
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    Dec 25, 2013 3:05 PM in response to donileo

    How to you do that (steps)

  • by BadApp,

    BadApp BadApp Feb 25, 2014 9:11 AM in response to chunky monkey1
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    Feb 25, 2014 9:11 AM in response to chunky monkey1

    How do you do what?

  • by anothergene,

    anothergene anothergene Jun 9, 2014 6:52 AM in response to BadApp
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    Jun 9, 2014 6:52 AM in response to BadApp

    Obviously meant to work this way or it would have been fixed by now.  I wonder if the artists are aware that apple is editing their music for them?

  • by jwillits,

    jwillits jwillits Nov 11, 2014 4:44 PM in response to anothergene
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    Nov 11, 2014 4:44 PM in response to anothergene

    This is bizarre that Apple cares this little about what we want.  We want our music back.  They stole hundreds of my songs and replaced them with garbage.  I have no idea how to get them back.  I couldn't even create a list of what was lost.  And Apple refuses to fix this.

     

    Let's be clear, this is not a technical hurdle, it's an intentional decision.  Why?  Is it because they don't want to allocate all the bandwidth it would surely generate to have us all fixing our libraries at the same time ? LOL

     

    This is an example of how I've lost faith in Apple.  Everything I own is Apple if available, but now that's changing.  It seems like everyone else is now the company who offers the best products.  iTunes has always been garbage but I put up with it because it was Apple and was the only thing that worked with my devices.  The solution has become clear, quit buying good Apple products that lock you into other bad products.

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