iTunes Match Match Explicit Songs Matches Clean

Well, I do t know if we can say with certainty that "most users" will be downloading mismatches. To their iOS devices ,abbé, but o suspect " most users" keep the original tracks in sir iTunes library.

It's now been a year and a half since the original post, and my library is still full of a bunch of 'cleaned' tracks. I'm not going to go through my library & find each track, then find the original CD & re-rip it (I got rid of most of my CDs a few years ago), in the hopes that Apple has fixed that particular track/album. It's especially annyoing when I'm playing music at a party & realize it's a censored version of a song. Have you ever heard a clean version of Nuthin But a G Thang? It's not pretty.

I think this gets at a bigger problem with digital tracks. Right now on the iTunes top Hop-Hop/Rap tracks, Thrift Shop is listed twice - once at #3 for the explicit version, and again at #5 for the clean version. I can only assume if counted together, that track would be #1. Shouldn't they be counting it as one songs, with 2 different versions, rather than 2 completely separate songs? It would be nice to be able to just toggle a switch from explicit to clean. Behind the scenes, iTunes should be able to track the 2 different files but only show one in the interface. This would fix the iTunes Match problem, too. Of course I'm sure the record labels would want to get paid separately for each version, but I'm sure Apple could argue that only x% of people buy both versions, so it really doesn't matter.

Billions of dollars in R&D, yet bugs like this remain. I already submitted feedback twice. Come on, Apple, this kind of stuff just has to work.

I honestly don't know if it is fixed yet. I may delete one of the songs I know was "cleaned" and pull it down again. As long as you do not delete your local song files and re-download from the iTunes Match servers, you will not loose your "explicit" versions.

That is all well and good. But the kicker here is that you have to "reimport" from the original source. So I have to dig in my storage to find some CD's to rip back into iTunes. C'mon Apple! At least own this and admit to your many paying customers that you screwed the pooch here. Especially when customers like myself found a way to fix this using a competing service (Amazon Cloud Player). Sure I paid for two services, but now I have my library in two clouds...and locally on an external drive that gets backed up. My tunes are super-safe now!

I was having the same issue (since February of 2012) until yesterday when Apple released iTunes version 11.0.5. Once they released this version, I rescanned my drive by updating iTunes Match via the Store tab in iTunes. I then checked several explicit songs that I know had been incorrectly switched for clean ones, and many were now back to being explicit. (FINALLY!)

The ones that weren't, I deleted them from iTunes (while being sure NOT to check the box that says "Also delete this item from iCloud"), and then downloaded the songs from iCloud and they're now good to go.

That siad, I haven't had a chance to check all the songs in my library that had been incorrectly matched, so I can't confirm that all are okay yet. But so far, so good.

I hope this works for others, as this was a VERY annoying issue.

I followed your lead and it seems to have done the trick. I haven't checked every song that I had found to be edited, but I did check a few albums (Kanye, Jay-Z, Operator) and see that an 11.0.5 update and an iTunes Match refresh has them back to their explicit versions.

I will keep an eye out for any that need to be re-downloaded, or simply do not correct. But I am glad that Apple got this corrected after a "short" 20 months or so...

This sounds like some progress has finally been made and that's great that you can restore your content back to explicit versions on your desktop itunes.

What about my itunes on my iPhone? I cleared my stored tunes ans redownloaded an album to my phone to realize the problem is still haunting me.

Example is Earl Sweatshirt - Hive.

whether downloading or streaming to my phone (which i guess is essentially the same) the edited version comes up.

Anyone else still having this problem on iphone?

I can confirm that after updating itunes to 11.05 and updating Match that explicit songs are now matching with their explicit counterparts on my desktop. I don't have an iPhone so I can't confirm mobile matches. I'm glad this seems to be resolved on the desktop though! 🙂

Good news.

Now, to make sure the iOS devices are picking up the changes disable iTM on the device, launch the Music app and let the content clear out. Delete all downloaded music from the device by going to Settings > General > Usage, tap Music (you may have to scroll down), swipe across "all music" and tap DELETE. Now re-enable iTM on the device.

I have found a simple fix if you are using Apple TV that doesn't require deleting or re-importing all of your music. Ready?

I've been mad for months too.

Under Settings , General, then Parental Control, (you will need to make a password to turn it on) turn on Parental settings, then under each subcategory select the option "no" for restricting movies and tv shows and under Explicit Music & Podcasts, check "allow". Then go back out and turn the parental controls off again. Turn Apple TV off and back on again. Your music should now be unedited and cussing up a storm making you happy again.

Unfortunately it's seems there are still issues with iTunes identifying explicit versions... I was very excited by recent news that deleting songs from iTunes and redownloading would work and for me it did for the first few songs but then I came across an entire album that did not work... Hopefully a fuller solution is in the works.

I recently purchased eminems new album, explicit deluxe version. When I got home i put it into itunes to put it onto my iPod but once it imported it became censored. I even tried deleting it and re installing it but it's still censored. Can someone help me with my situation?

This really annoyed me all morning long. I was walking to work when I noticed a song was censored (OneRepublic - Good Life) No matter what I did, what already posted tricks I used to get it to match the correct version it just wouldn't work. Even tried completely changing the name of the song to something random, no dice. I finally gave up and created a .mp3 version via iTunes, deleted the old copy of the song and added the .mp3 version and viola, it finally matched the explicit version.

This is seriously getting ridiculous. This service has been available for years now and it's insane that this is still a glitch. I get that the fingerprints are probably similar, so just put a slider for explicit like we have for iTunes Radio. I just re-added 5 different versions of the same song (all explicit) and they came back censored every time, except one which became uploaded (which would somewhat solve the issue, but is annoying for quality reasons)

I've had it at this point. I'm a long time Apple fan but honestly, iTunes Match is poorly executed. Was listening to a song yesterday and it censored a song for the word “*** I'm sorry but this should not be hard to fix. A simple VERY simple already pre-existing TAG for explicit is all that's required. But iTunes match not only ignores the tag but wipes it out.

The other really annoying thing is that it'll randomly download songs and store them on my phone. I commute in Manhattan which means I'm on Subways alot meaning I download my music and turn off the "Show All Music" option and only play what I've downloaded. But fairly consistently a song I did NOT download winds up on my phone and can't be deleted. I have to turn "Show All Music" back on while I'm connected, download the song in question and THEN delete it. I would say it's some how saving a song it cached but I never have the Show All Music function on.

The problem has persisted across iOS and phone hardware versions too.

At this point, I'm done. The only way I found to fix the problem for sure is the recreate a new .mp3 version. I can't have two different versions of all these songs. Just not worth it. Going to turn off iTunes match on my phone and not renew it. Just going to rely on Google drive to backup my library going forward. A rare #AppleFail.

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