Album trek, completely mis-titled for no reason

Yet another music glitch one of my tracks on a rush album is now listed as Mark Farina‘s playlist. What in the world is that?

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Posted on Nov 23, 2023 3:57 PM

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Posted on Nov 24, 2023 3:28 PM



Yet another music glitch one of my tracks on a rush album is now listed as Mark Farina‘s playlist. What in the world is that?


This is known to happen from time to time - I've had this happen before myself, with tracks from all different artists. I've found that it hits tracks where something changed on that album between the time you bought the album (version A, let's call it) and the current version being sold in the store (version B). On the surface, it's the same track - but some other underlying metadata may have changed since the time you purchased it. Two telltale signs - one is that you can seemingly purchase the album again (i.e. actual price shown versus "Purchased" in the price button), the other is that the track's playing time has disappeared when reviewing songs from Account > Purchased.


That said, this is a known glitch where these same older tracks were included on someone's playlist, and iOS reads this playlist data as opposed to the actual embedded metadata.


Easiest remedy is to manually drag that track/album from Music (or iTunes, if Windows or older macOS) onto the device. The metadata should correct itself and remain in place for as long as you have that track/album local (i.e. downloaded) on your device.


(first time I saw this hit a Rush album though...)


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Nov 24, 2023 3:28 PM in response to Liamdad



Yet another music glitch one of my tracks on a rush album is now listed as Mark Farina‘s playlist. What in the world is that?


This is known to happen from time to time - I've had this happen before myself, with tracks from all different artists. I've found that it hits tracks where something changed on that album between the time you bought the album (version A, let's call it) and the current version being sold in the store (version B). On the surface, it's the same track - but some other underlying metadata may have changed since the time you purchased it. Two telltale signs - one is that you can seemingly purchase the album again (i.e. actual price shown versus "Purchased" in the price button), the other is that the track's playing time has disappeared when reviewing songs from Account > Purchased.


That said, this is a known glitch where these same older tracks were included on someone's playlist, and iOS reads this playlist data as opposed to the actual embedded metadata.


Easiest remedy is to manually drag that track/album from Music (or iTunes, if Windows or older macOS) onto the device. The metadata should correct itself and remain in place for as long as you have that track/album local (i.e. downloaded) on your device.


(first time I saw this hit a Rush album though...)


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