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Q: Someone Else Singing with iTunes Match?

Okay here's a weird one.

 

I own the CD Linkin Park "A Thousand Suns" this album was registered as Matched on iTunes Match.

 

I recently redownloaded the entire album onto my iPhone 4S to play in my car, while listening to the album, it got to the 8th song "Waiting for the End" and to my dismay... someone else is singing the song. It sounds like someone took the normal song and added their lyrical performance and put it on top of the normal song, and this guy is singing very off key. It would be kinda funny if it wasn't so annoying. I perfer the normal singer to sing along with, not whoever this is.

 

The song sounds normal on my computer, and when I directly transfer the song from the PC to the iPhone or any other iOS device, meaning the one on iTunes Match is not the original file, it's someone wanting to singalong with the song online... how do you correct something like that? Notify Apple?

 

The only thing I can think of is that iTunes Match wouldn't have thousands of copies of the same song... so I figure someone else uploaded theirs first, and then that copy becomes the one that gets matched to everyone else afterward. It's kind of a funny idea, and a weird way to mess with people. Anyone else heard someone elses singing on a matched song?

 

Hope to get some input on how to fix or approach this unique situation.

 

Thanks,

 

Charles

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1, iTunes Match

Posted on Jul 24, 2012 9:38 PM

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  • by sM3e,

    sM3e sM3e Jul 25, 2012 3:38 PM in response to Comtar
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    Jul 25, 2012 3:38 PM in response to Comtar

    Someone just pointed me to you as you share the same problem as me - any joy on sorting this?

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/message/18984532#18984532

  • by sfells,

    sfells sfells Jul 25, 2012 8:46 PM in response to Comtar
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    Jul 25, 2012 8:46 PM in response to Comtar

    Awesome; I had the same problem and googled "itunes match singing over song" and found this string ("waiting for the end" - from the LP album "A Thousand Suns").  I'm getting the feeling that match isn't using vetted versions of the songs for distribution but instead versions submitted up by users and hoping they are correct.

     

    This on top of having half my music censored makes me doubt that I'll be continuing this service for another year.

     

    Good idea, not so hot execution...

  • by sswinger,

    sswinger sswinger Jul 26, 2012 8:28 AM in response to Comtar
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    Jul 26, 2012 8:28 AM in response to Comtar

    I too am having the same problem with Match screwing up this one file from Linkin Park. "Waiting for the End". I also deleted it yesterday from match, as i listen at work to songs that way, and when i got home and listened to the original version it was fine on my home computer. I re-synced it only to have the wrong version with the overdubbed singer on the file as I listened to it at work the next day.

     

    What is going on? I know I have listened to this file before and it used to be the correct version, why did it change?

  • by gbrown82,

    gbrown82 gbrown82 Aug 26, 2012 5:56 PM in response to Comtar
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    Aug 26, 2012 5:56 PM in response to Comtar

    I removed the song from itunes match and repurchased it directly through itunes to fix this issue for me.

    I hope this helps.

  • by Derekedelaney,

    Derekedelaney Derekedelaney Sep 15, 2012 5:50 PM in response to Comtar
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    Sep 15, 2012 5:50 PM in response to Comtar

    I just ran into the same problem today. It looks like nothing has been done about this situation yet.

  • by zdrummer84,

    zdrummer84 zdrummer84 Sep 24, 2012 2:13 PM in response to Comtar
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    Sep 24, 2012 2:13 PM in response to Comtar

    Yep, this is still an issue.  I'll try calling Apple support later???

  • by jasonjwwilliams,

    jasonjwwilliams jasonjwwilliams Sep 26, 2012 1:51 PM in response to Comtar
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    Sep 26, 2012 1:51 PM in response to Comtar

    I had this issue today with "Lebanese Blonde" off Thievery Corporation's "Mirror Conspiracy" album. The MC album has the original version of the song with vocals, however iTunes Match has suddenly decided to start playing the instrumental version of the song which was never on that album. 

     

    What's really annoying is that this is an album I bought from iTunes and they should have already, not one they should have uploaded from anybody. My iTunes is still correct.

  • by lahockey_98,

    lahockey_98 lahockey_98 Oct 2, 2012 9:47 AM in response to Comtar
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    Oct 2, 2012 9:47 AM in response to Comtar

    Same issue. Apple, you have to escalate this fix. This dubbed version is horrible. It's like karaoke night bad, and it's taking the place of my favorite song from the album. The iTunes store has the correct version just sitting there on the album like normal, so if your program can't match the song appropriately, the least you can do is let me manually map it correctly.

  • by Philip Smith,

    Philip Smith Philip Smith Oct 10, 2012 4:19 PM in response to Comtar
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    Oct 10, 2012 4:19 PM in response to Comtar

    I'm also experiencing this issue.  Apple did get back to me and let me know it's a "known issue".  They're suggesting:

    -Re-download after the next iTunes update (hopefully soon now), or

    -Convert the original track to AAC and then re-match

    -But I guess you could also just buy this one song.

     

     

    I bought my album at Amazon and then matched it.  I'm curious how many of you did the same - maybe a hash of our MP3 is pointing all of us to this "karaoke night bad" version (it is pretty awful).

     

     

    It's now turned into my comedy song - it's so bad it has me in stitches.  Anyone else wondering if the sing along dude knows he's been "published" through iTunes Match?  He'd probably be stoked!

  • by jasonjwwilliams,

    jasonjwwilliams jasonjwwilliams Oct 10, 2012 4:42 PM in response to jasonjwwilliams
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    Oct 10, 2012 4:42 PM in response to jasonjwwilliams

    So in my case, here's what the situation appears to be (according to iTunes Store Support):

     

    * Since the time I bought The Mirror Conspiracy on iTunes, Apple has replaced the album. New album art and album/song IDs but the songs themselves are identical to the album I purchased from iTunes before that.

     

    * As the current "official" iTunes copy has different IDs than my older "official" copy, iTunes doesn't think my copy is official anymore and iTunes Match kicks in. iTunes Match is then incorrectly deciding a version uploaded by another user is the same as mine.

     

    Apple's solution was to give me 15 song credits to rebuy the current "official" copy. Since the new "official" copy of the album is identical except for the album art (same song content), it's no big deal. I'm guessing the crux of most people's problem here with this problem on iTunes purchased music, is that Apple has replaced the "official" copy of the album in the store. The deeper issue with iTunes Match obviously is that it is pretty dumb on figuring out if two songs are truly identical such that it can optimize by not storing your copy.

  • by chuckis,

    chuckis chuckis Oct 16, 2012 11:38 PM in response to jasonjwwilliams
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    Oct 16, 2012 11:38 PM in response to jasonjwwilliams

    Well Jason, somebody is listening to you. I found this page because a bought, then matched, then downloaded the iTunes Match copy of linkin park "waiting for the end". On both computers it's right, but no matter what I do, the phone is wrong. So I found this thread, read your post and then checked the mirror conspiracy album an found two copies. The original iTunes purchase and an additional copy of the same album with new artwork. You had the problem, and they fixed my non-problem (for this album) and gave me two copies, even though my album matched correctly. I am looking forward to a fix for linkin park because I link the song, not the rogue singer.

  • by nytwalker,

    nytwalker nytwalker Dec 4, 2012 12:32 AM in response to Comtar
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    Dec 4, 2012 12:32 AM in response to Comtar

    I'm really happy to resurrect this thread.  I can't believe it hasn't been fixed.  Anyway, a couple of days ago while listening to the album I discovered this very problem...needless to say, I was not happy.  On the suggestion of a friend I began listening to the previews for all of the OTHER tracks in the iTunes Store titled "Waiting for the End".

     

    And, well, I found our culprit. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chao-ji-liu-xing-feng-super/id452650687

     

    11 Waiting for the End 烏達坦 (Wu-Da-Tan) 3:53 $0.99

    Album: 超級流行風 (Super Fashion)

     

    I'm relieved that it isn't a problem with Match utilizing user-submitted songs... However, why their matching system would give priority to a random song off an unknown album, I have no idea.  It's not much consolation to me, but, Shazam incorrectly identifies this track as legit LP, too. I even tried it a few times at various parts of the bad song and Shazam got it as LP every time.

     

    Anyway, I'll be contacting Apple Support with this info, hopefully they'll be able to finally take care of it.

     

    nyt

  • by RonaldDavisAK,

    RonaldDavisAK RonaldDavisAK May 2, 2013 6:14 PM in response to Comtar
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    May 2, 2013 6:14 PM in response to Comtar

    As of May 1, 2013, this issue still persists. I've contacted Apple support for resolution.

  • by RonaldDavisAK,

    RonaldDavisAK RonaldDavisAK May 3, 2013 7:48 PM in response to RonaldDavisAK
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    May 3, 2013 7:48 PM in response to RonaldDavisAK

    Here's the response from Apple:

     

    To resolve this issue, you need to rematch the songs:

     

    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.

     

    If the issue still persist, I urge you to leave a comment on our feedback page.