Christopher Golding

Q: iTunes Match Match Explicit Songs Matches Clean

I am having issues where some songs that have explicit words are being replaced by songs that have been censored ( clean version ).  I am pretty particular about my music, ever time I hear a song that has been censored, it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

 

Some of my songs are being properly matched, Eminem for instance seems to have no problem being matched, however Blink-182 gets matched with the clean version.

 

I hope Apple will correct this before this comes out of beta, for an Apple product I am thoroughly disappointed.

 

~Chris

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 16, 2011 12:30 PM

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  • by Mike Connelly,

    Mike Connelly Mike Connelly Oct 8, 2012 1:53 PM in response to Bmjyfhhdgjihbt
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    Oct 8, 2012 1:53 PM in response to Bmjyfhhdgjihbt

    Doesn't fix anything.

  • by General Bison,

    General Bison General Bison Oct 17, 2012 11:35 PM in response to Christopher Golding
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    Oct 17, 2012 11:35 PM in response to Christopher Golding

    Have Apple still not addressed this issue? My god.

    I've just had this issue crop up on select tracks from an album, very annoying.

    All they really need to do is allow us to force an upload rather than a match. I really don't care about the quality upgrade that comes with a match as I've already ripped all my CDs at the quality I like.

     

    I've also had a similar (albeit much more annoying) issue with some gapless albums, the matched tracks have 2 seconds of silence at the end of every track (even with the gapless album flag). Unbelievably irritating, jarring and annoying to listen to this music now.

     

    Apple very clearly don't care about this service, when was the last time they mentioned it or updated anyone?

  • by Mike Connelly,

    Mike Connelly Mike Connelly Oct 18, 2012 6:55 AM in response to General Bison
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    Oct 18, 2012 6:55 AM in response to General Bison

    General Bison wrote:

     

    Apple very clearly don't care about this service, when was the last time they mentioned it or updated anyone?

     

    When they sent me an email asking to renew next month.

  • by blametheadmin,

    blametheadmin blametheadmin Oct 18, 2012 7:54 AM in response to Mike Connelly
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    Oct 18, 2012 7:54 AM in response to Mike Connelly

    I remain hopeful that a solution to this will be found.

  • by XenonKilla,

    XenonKilla XenonKilla Nov 11, 2012 4:46 AM in response to Christopher Golding
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    Nov 11, 2012 4:46 AM in response to Christopher Golding

    As with all SIMPLE THINGS that Crapple can never seem to handle, this issue is EASILY RESOLVED by just adding an option in the iTunes Preferences where the user is able to select a checkbox that says something like "Only download Explicit content when using iTunes Match"

     

    PROBLEM SOLVED!

     

    <Edited by Host>

  • by skata4u,

    skata4u skata4u Nov 12, 2012 7:49 PM in response to XenonKilla
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    Nov 12, 2012 7:49 PM in response to XenonKilla

    I emailed Tim Cook about this some time ago and got an email back from his office (not him personally) and it was escalated to Itunes Support engineers. I recommend people lodge their issues with their songs. For me specifically it was some Kanye West tracks.

     

    To this date, (4-5 months+) it still isnt fixed.

  • by tmhale13,

    tmhale13 tmhale13 Dec 7, 2012 12:02 PM in response to Christopher Golding
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    Dec 7, 2012 12:02 PM in response to Christopher Golding

    Has anyone seen a change since the release of iTunes 11? I checked out the Preferences area and did not see anything dealing with iTunes Match content options. That leads me to believe that it has not been addressed. But There are much smarter posters here that may have done some deeper investigation.

     

    Heck, I have a decent back-up now, so maybe I will test it with an album or two tonight...

  • by TwinCitiesJHawk,

    TwinCitiesJHawk TwinCitiesJHawk Dec 18, 2012 1:05 PM in response to Christopher Golding
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    Dec 18, 2012 1:05 PM in response to Christopher Golding

    Just received this back from Apple Support after my initial complaint a few months ago when the 1st reponse was regarding Apple Engineers were looking into the problem..  (shocked she followed up after so long!)

     

    1) Delete the affected songs from your computer and iTunes in the Cloud. See
    this article for steps:

    iTunes Store: How to delete songs from iCloud
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4915

    2) Reimport the songs from the original source.

    3) From the iTunes menu, choose Store > Update iTunes Match.

    Your understanding and cooperation are most appreciated. Thank you for choosing
    iTunes Store. Have a wonderful day!

  • by skata4u,

    skata4u skata4u Dec 18, 2012 3:13 PM in response to TwinCitiesJHawk
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    Dec 18, 2012 3:13 PM in response to TwinCitiesJHawk

    so does this mean its fixed?

  • by l.bishop,

    l.bishop l.bishop Dec 18, 2012 3:52 PM in response to skata4u
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    Dec 18, 2012 3:52 PM in response to skata4u

    i can confirm nothing is fixed. still matching to clean versions. tried a completely 'fresh' rip of a song so it wouldn't match to previous. still utter bobbins.

  • by TwinCitiesJHawk,

    TwinCitiesJHawk TwinCitiesJHawk Dec 19, 2012 6:07 AM in response to l.bishop
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    Dec 19, 2012 6:07 AM in response to l.bishop

    I followed the steps with the T-Pain Stoic mixtape that I was initially having problems with and I can confirm it has been fixed for that album.  I'm going to try some more later today.

  • by tmhale13,

    tmhale13 tmhale13 Dec 19, 2012 12:14 PM in response to TwinCitiesJHawk
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    Dec 19, 2012 12:14 PM in response to TwinCitiesJHawk

    As far as I can tell, the T-Pain Stoic Mixtape is not offered in the iTunes Store. That means that your songs are being uploaded to the iTunes servers, not "Matched" to existing iTunes copies of the song files.

  • by TwinCitiesJHawk,

    TwinCitiesJHawk TwinCitiesJHawk Dec 20, 2012 8:37 AM in response to tmhale13
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    Dec 20, 2012 8:37 AM in response to tmhale13

    Odd.... when this mixtape 1st came out and I uploaded it to itunes and itunes match and then downloading them on a different computer, the songs were all clean.  After deleteing the album from the cloud/itunes and re-adding them and re-downloading them, they are now explicit.  Not sure what else to tell you.

  • by gabbalicious,

    gabbalicious gabbalicious Feb 15, 2013 9:51 AM in response to Christopher Golding
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    Feb 15, 2013 9:51 AM in response to Christopher Golding

    Last night I just noticed this for the first time as I was trying to listen to "Happy Valentine's Day" by Outkast.  This was a CD I had ripped into my library years ago, then I hear the clean version and almost had a fit!

     

    I was literally 10 seconds away from cancelling my iTunes Match subscription, but it was Valentine's Day so I didn't want to be all in a huff and have it ruin my night.

     

    If they don't have a fix for this, they will lose my business for sure.

     

    ONE QUESTION:  What happens when you quit iTunes Match?  Does your old library get restored to what it was originally?  Does it leave behind the matched versions of tracks which might be the clean versions?  Anyone know?

  • by Michael Allbritton,

    Michael Allbritton Michael Allbritton Feb 15, 2013 10:18 AM in response to gabbalicious
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    Feb 15, 2013 10:18 AM in response to gabbalicious

    gabbalicious wrote:

     

    ONE QUESTION:  What happens when you quit iTunes Match?  Does your old library get restored to what it was originally?  Does it leave behind the matched versions of tracks which might be the clean versions?  Anyone know?

    If you have deleted the original tracks from the iTunes library and downloaded the "matched" tracks, then those stay in your library. If you do not renew the subscription your library does not revert, that is impossible. You can, of course, either restore the explict tracks from your backup and sync to the iOS device via USB or delete the tracks from the iTunes library, and the cloud, re-rip the tracks from CD then sync the tracks to your iOS device via USB. That way, when the track plays on the device it will be the "correct" one.

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