Apple Music only playing half of 'downloaded' songs? Is this an Anti-Piracy measure?
Apple Music only playing half of 'downloaded' songs? Is this an Anti-Piracy measure?
Apple's Music app (formerly itunes) is only playing half of the tracks of a recently downloaded album. It then inexplicably skips to (or through) the next songs similarly.
Is it possible this is an anti-piracy measure? Interestingly, the labelled source appears to be 'web' so I'm wondering if the app somehow detects that it's an illicit source.
The problem does not occur in VLC or with other downloaded albums (although I recall something similar happening with Itunes many years ago on a different computer and/or OS so I can only assume the problem is not me and the actual file or app).
No, it’s just a bug. Apple Music likes to just kinda randomly fuck up and stop playing an album. Especially with streaming. Even legit Apple Music the streaming service will do this shit from time to time. It’s almost flawlessly on iPhone but sucks balls on Mac OS and Windows.
No but Apple Music will identify tracks that you have added from your own collection, and on other devices will download their version instead of the file you supposedly uploaded, even if your original version was higher quality.
Google Music did this back in the day, I lost versions of tracks that I couldn't find anywhere again, infuriating.
Interesting world we live in
Proprietary software users: Ah, my apple music is fucked up, Spotify charged me twice, Netflix blocked me when I was traveling, I paid for this app on iOS $10 and it's barely working
Other users: I press a button and my jellyseer asks *arr to download all episodes of a show I want to watch, when i start watching my hass dims the lights, and I'm private, secure, and at the same time the show is being shared to a lot of other people for free
If you pirated the album, presumably it is free of any DRM. In this case the most that itunes could infer is that you didn't buy it from the itunes store, which isn't the same thing as inferring that you pirated it. So it's safe to assume whatever you're experiencing isn't an antipiracy measure, but either a bug or some issue with the album rip you downloaded. Without knowing the source I'd lean toward the latter, because lossy transcodes, bad rips and bad tags are commonplace in many places where pirated music is available.
As an aside, I fucking hate that I can't uninstall this shit on my work Mac. I use another media player and when it's open the media keys work fine but if I forget to open and and hit play that cursed thing just looms on the screen to remind me that I can't get rid of it.
This happens to me too sometimes. It usually fixes itself up when I clean the cache and remove all downloaded songs so it can update them.
Weird, is it possible that it's streaming a high quality version, but since you didn't pay, it just plays half of it? I haven't used apple stuff in years, so I'm too familiar with it anymore.
What happens when it stops playing, tho? Does it fail, stop or just go to the next song?
It skips through songs every song half way through.
I downloaded a flac version of the album and converted it to m4a - works fine now. Weird.
Pretty sure it’s a long time bug where it dislikes how some songs are encoded. Never figured out exactly what causes it, but yeah trying another encoding can help
I recently had the same issue in the Apple Music Android app
No it's a long standing bug that showed up around 2021 where songs were inexplicably stopping after 15s. Some thought account issues, some thought Apple Music was down, etc. etc.
I have them on select files. Stuff that I added to my library way back when that is matched. Some that are uploaded do the same.
Then there is also the long standing bug where Apple Music just stops playing. For whatever reason it doesn't load the song. You try and it just won't, forcing you to skip to the next song. It's insufferable and shows up in waves now and then.
You can get around some of the stalls by downloading the song to your device. It will play just fine then. It's not anti-piracy, Apple doesn't do shit like that. If they had proof of anything, they'd ban your account indefinitely and move on.
AM is not a good service I'm sorry to say. Yes the song quality is amazing and the recommendations are decent, but playing things, it's always been super super twitchy. Like if you look at it sideways it stops playing. I've been on it for 6 years. This is kind of known in the AM community.
Switch to Android and use Soundbound to download songs from Spotify. I won't recommend the player since I would be downvoted to hell, but my personal favorite is Samsung Music.
I won’t recommend the player since I would be downvoted to hell
You shouldn't care about downvotes.
I'm the outlier, as in I use Apple Music on Android. It has an app that works for me, options for lossless, some fun radio stations, and no podcasts or audiobooks popping up on the home page. Downloads work fine for me, but I did have that skipping bug OP described in a version 6 months ago.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with it, ignoring of course that streaming as a business isn't all that great.
Edit: Also, why not pirate outright, instead of violating the ToS of a company that has your billing info? I mean, they probably won't do anything, but at that point, just getting the albums as flac somewhere seams more sensible to me.
Samsung music.. Can somebody show them the door?
(Kidding, kidding, who cares, i upvoted👍)