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Apple Music only playing half of 'downloaded' songs? Is this an Anti-Piracy measure? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

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.