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).

  • Matt@lemmy.mlEnglish
    38·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Engywuck@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      I won’t recommend the player since I would be downvoted to hell

      You shouldn’t care about downvotes.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.