"Like a Prayer 30th Anniversary" is being shoved done my throat and I'M PISSED

[Blue Jean 13,107]

And yes that Like a Prayer anniversary cover is just horrible. The tracklist is also tragic the way they skip certain songs and mess up the original album. If that album was "a test" then they failed.

True Blue, despite the ugly cover, had a great track list. It would be great if they could re-do Like a Prayer more like that.

[McDonna 12,534]

20 minutes ago, Blue Jean said:

I tried Apple music years ago and had similar problems. They are shit. Spotify is also shit for uploading songs that aren't in their database. Very glitchy.

The best streaming service is YouTube music. You can upload anything you want with whatever cover you want and your uploads are always available to stream on your phone or computer no matter where you are.

It is not perfect, for eg the uploads are kept in a seperate section of your library which might be annoying for your OCD. But you can at least include them in a playlist along with everything else.

Also if you want lossless quality sadly you'd have to stick with Apple as Youtube music doesn't offer that.

Still, I would recommend trying it out. I have tried all the streaming services and this one, whilst not perfect, fits my needs the best.

I do miss having my whole library viewable the way it was on iTunes back in the day. But honestly, the convenience of being able to access my music on my phone from anywhere is just so good.

I prefer to just store my digital files on my own devices.  Yes, it takes up more space, but that's how we used to do it before streaming was available.  Streaming is convenient, and unless you pay a monthly fee, you get ads.  Nevertheless, you're still using internet data that you have to pay for.  I'm not paying to stream.  I simply go to my devices and call up music playlists on my default players.  Otherwise, I'm streaming with ads!  At the end of the day, we all do what is easier, cheaper and or convenient for us individually. 

 

[BuggedOut 4,093]

31 minutes ago, Blue Jean said:

I tried Apple music years ago and had similar problems. They are shit. Spotify is also shit for uploading songs that aren't in their database. Very glitchy.

The best streaming service is YouTube music. You can upload anything you want with whatever cover you want and your uploads are always available to stream on your phone or computer no matter where you are.

It is not perfect, for eg the uploads are kept in a seperate section of your library which might be annoying for your OCD. But you can at least include them in a playlist along with everything else.

Also if you want lossless quality sadly you'd have to stick with Apple as Youtube music doesn't offer that.

Still, I would recommend trying it out. I have tried all the streaming services and this one, whilst not perfect, fits my needs the best.

I do miss having my whole library viewable the way it was on iTunes back in the day. But honestly, the convenience of being able to access my music on my phone from anywhere is just so good.

Tidal is great and lossless and I couldn’t imagine using a streaming service without paying a fee. The ads would drive me nuts.

People do that?

I use iTunes on my desktop to listen to all of my music and Tidal when streaming elsewhere.

Love all Apple products except for Apple Music.

[A. A. Aardvark 4,344]

7 hours ago, TOpher said:

First world problems 

physical product

doesn't corrupt itself and vanish

[Blue Jean 13,107]

3 hours ago, BuggedOut said:

Tidal is great and lossless and I couldn’t imagine using a streaming service without paying a fee. The ads would drive me nuts.

People do that?

YouTube music is a subscription service like Spotify. I tried Tidal, I didn't like it as it didn't have all of Kylie Minogue's albums on the Oz version for some ridiculous reason. And you have to pay quite a lot more for lossless.

[Sillynate 124]

4 hours ago, Blue Jean said:

The best streaming service is YouTube music. You can upload anything you want with whatever cover you want and your uploads are always available to stream on your phone or computer no matter where you are.

I do this on Apple 😅

[A. A. Aardvark 4,344]

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[mancandy 494]

I think people are mixing up Apple Music and iTunes Match. They are 2 totally different things.

 

Anyone who wants to stream their iTunes library in it's entirety should get iTunes Match which is $25 a year and lets you upload up to 100,000 songs to the cloud to stream on your devices and iTunes will also upgrade your LQ files to 256kbs iTunes Store files if they sell that file and they can match it. 

iTunes Match can be pretty finicky with large libraries but it's worth it. I have all 92,000 songs in my music library and it's available to me at all times (wifi or cellular) including all my playlists.

 

@MPowered I have iTunes Match only (not Apple Music). I did not have this issue with LAP and LAP30 art being swapped, but I did have an issue where the MDNA tracks that were also on the MDNA: Nightlife Edition were grayed out MDNA proper and being skipped. I could only listen to them on Nightlife Edition.

 

What I had to do to fix it was delete both albums from my iTunes library on the computer. Update my iCloud library. Wait a bit, then re-add MDNA. Update iCloud library. Made sure tracks were working properly on my phone, then re-added MDNA: Nightlife Edition and updated my include library. This fixed the issue after trying a a couple of other things.

 

Another thing you can try is making sure your LAP album and LAP30 album do not have the same sorting info for Album. Turn on "Sort Album" and make sure nothing is listed. This will default to iTunes Match pulling the meta data using the Artist/Album and not any sorting info that has been added. I had downloaded something on here and whoever uploaded it had put "Madonna" under "Sort Album". This messed up the artwork on my Madonna album. When I would change the name to "First Album" it would show the proper artwork I had attached to the files, when I would change it back to Madonna it would show the wrong art. Once I erased Madonna from the sorting of the offending file, the artwork on my Madonna album started displaying correctly.

 

Hopefully that made sense.

[LongIslandTea 1,370]

7 hours ago, Blue Jean said:

And yes that Like a Prayer anniversary cover is just horrible. The tracklist is also tragic the way they skip certain songs and mess up the original album. If that album was "a test" then they failed.

True Blue, despite the ugly cover, had a great track list. It would be great if they could re-do Like a Prayer more like that.

But the 30th Anniversary cushion is nice! 

[Blue Jean 13,107]

5 hours ago, mancandy said:

I think people are mixing up Apple Music and iTunes Match. They are 2 totally different things.

 

Anyone who wants to stream their iTunes library in it's entirety should get iTunes Match which is $25 a year and lets you upload up to 100,000 songs to the cloud to stream on your devices and iTunes will also upgrade your LQ files to 256kbs iTunes Store files if they sell that file and they can match it. 

iTunes Match can be pretty finicky with large libraries but it's worth it. I have all 92,000 songs in my music library and it's available to me at all times (wifi or cellular) including all my playlists.

 

@MPowered I have iTunes Match only (not Apple Music). I did not have this issue with LAP and LAP30 art being swapped, but I did have an issue where the MDNA tracks that were also on the MDNA: Nightlife Edition were grayed out MDNA proper and being skipped. I could only listen to them on Nightlife Edition.

 

What I had to do to fix it was delete both albums from my iTunes library on the computer. Update my iCloud library. Wait a bit, then re-add MDNA. Update iCloud library. Made sure tracks were working properly on my phone, then re-added MDNA: Nightlife Edition and updated my include library. This fixed the issue after trying a a couple of other things.

 

Another thing you can try is making sure your LAP album and LAP30 album do not have the same sorting info for Album. Turn on "Sort Album" and make sure nothing is listed. This will default to iTunes Match pulling the meta data using the Artist/Album and not any sorting info that has been added. I had downloaded something on here and whoever uploaded it had put "Madonna" under "Sort Album". This messed up the artwork on my Madonna album. When I would change the name to "First Album" it would show the proper artwork I had attached to the files, when I would change it back to Madonna it would show the wrong art. Once I erased Madonna from the sorting of the offending file, the artwork on my Madonna album started displaying correctly.

 

Hopefully that made sense.

Who has time to be fixing glitches like that? I don’t have these kinds of hassles with YouTube music.

I will say though once you have put your library on a service changing it is way too much work.

[Arckangel 226]

On 5/17/2023 at 7:15 AM, Prayer said:

What can I say. Anything iTunes Match, Cloud and Apple Music sync related is doomed from the start. That's what we got from Apple being in a hurry and trying to bring out their streaming service as soon as possible to compete with Spotify. They used all the back end Match and iTunes system so all kind of s**t goes on in the background and it's all based on a late 00s system... iTunes and iTunes Match.

That's why the iTunes Store is still going on, by the way (and the pennies they do with it).

I've been purchasing music on iTunes from years and years - I still do sometimes when I want to support the artist, since they got more with sales than streaming or if I want to edit the metadata, I'm very picky with titles and stuff. I decided to try Apple Music once and sync my own library with the service and it was SUCH A MESS that I decided I would never do that again. Apple Music is good if you use it just a streaming service right from the start and don't mix with your own music.

If this is the only issue you've found so far you're lucky! Most people get live tracks matched with album tracks, album tracks matched with live tracks, explicit versions changed for the clean versions and all kinds of trouble. 

 

On 5/17/2023 at 2:11 PM, tscott said:

Yeah,  I refuse to buy into Apple music.  Ever since (and even before), they try to take control of your music (and playlists) even after you buy.  I used to have many playlists created on Itunes, but after an update some months back, they all have been removed.  These are playlist I curated myself with the music I obtain outside of Itunes along with what I purchased through them. The only music that remains for me on Itunes is the music I actually bought from Itunes.  And it seems I have to keep re-downloading them after every freaking major update they make.

 

I offloaded iTunes/Apple Music on my phone for that reason. I had taken the time to rip files from my own CDs, properly name each track, each album, made sure they'd appear at the correct places, etc. I then synced the files to my phone. After an update, all the uploaded CD files disappeared from my phone! I was not going to sync it all all over again! And Apple Music would not let me play a remix EP I had actually purchased just because it was taken down… (I still have its files and artwork on a computer and external drives).

I may still occasionally purchase files on iTunes (to support the artist some more) and play them on a computer or some form of music player. Have any of you used iPods? If so, are they any better?

@MPowered

[Prayer 12,615]

5 minutes ago, Arckangel said:

 

 

I offloaded iTunes/Apple Music on my phone for that reason. I had taken the time to rip files from my own CDs, properly name each track, each album, made sure they appeared at the correct places, etc. I then synced the files to my phone. After an update, all the uploaded CD files disappeared from my phone! I was not going to sync it all all over again! And Apple Music would not let me play a remix EP I had actually purchased just because it was taken down… (I still have its files and artwork on a computer and external drives).

I may still occasionally purchase files on iTunes (to support the artist some more) and play them on a computer or some form of music player. Have any of you used iPods? If so, are they any better?

@MPowered

It's really messy. My only advice would be NOT mixing your iTunes purchases + CD rips library with Apple Music streaming. It's OK if you have your own music and then pay (if you want) an Apple Music subscription to stream only, but don't mix libraries, don't add streaming music to your own library. Just play and that's it. Keep them separate and everything will be fine.

As for iPods, I love them but they're really a thing of the past now. They still work if they were treated right back then, so at least they were high quality products. Of course they're perfect for syncing some music and play it and just forget about it, but... honestly you don't need a phone + an iPod, you can just use an iPhone without syncing your library with Apple Music and you'll be fine. 

[Blue Jean 13,107]

13 minutes ago, Prayer said:

It's really messy. My only advice would be NOT mixing your iTunes purchases + CD rips library with Apple Music streaming. It's OK if you have your own music and then pay (if you want) an Apple Music subscription to stream only, but don't mix libraries, don't add streaming music to your own library. Just play and that's it. Keep them separate and everything will be fine.

What if you want to make a playlist using songs from both? You can’t?

[Prayer 12,615]

49 minutes ago, Blue Jean said:

What if you want to make a playlist using songs from both? You can’t?

In my experience, as soon as you try to combine both it gets messy.

If you don't mind getting different versions, artwork and metadata changed, etc... then it's OK, I guess. Most people don't care that much about all that, they just want to listen to music. We're the weird ones. 

[McDonna 12,534]

It really shouldn't be that difficult to get a music player whether it's ITUNES or not to play the music you have on your computer and those you purchased in all the same playlist.  I like my apple products, but I hate how they try to restrict or take control of what you own.