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Scottfromoh Author

Level 1

6 points

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

205 replies

cleghorn

Level 1

0 points

Aug 9, 2012 2:38 PM in response to Scottfromoh

I've had this problem with album download cards I get with records converting to clean versions when iTunes Match gets hold of them. The downloaded files are high-quality explicit versions. Has there been any update on this being resolved? The main example I have is Skelethon by Aesop Rock. I know there are others, but haven't gone back to figure out exactly what has been edited by Match.

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

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.

rookfood

Level 1

4 points

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

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

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.

BadApp

Level 1

14 points

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

True. There could have been a simple fix already.

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

How to you do that (steps)

BadApp

Level 1

14 points

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

How do you do what?

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?

jwillits

Level 1

8 points

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.

iTunes Match explicit/clean music switch