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P-Jay - MemberSadly it's simply not true, Apple computers do get viruses, I've seen one and everything!
Never let the obvious truth get in the way of a joke.
Hmmm.....there is something satisfying about owning 'physical' music - vinyl, cassettes and CDs. Less convenient of course but we seemed to do ok with Walkmans in the day.
Analogous to fiat money vs physical gold I reckon. Gold will once again have its day when the GFC Mach 2 hits (it will be worse than Mach 1). Just as vinyl will have its day when the next big solar flare wipes out most of our electronics.
I have had a heap of music disappear off my iMac after an iTunes upgrade.
I don't remember doing anything unusual like wanting to stream (I prefer local storage).
It's a bloody nuisance because I'll have to reload it from CDs - I never bother backing up music because it's not that important to me, and I have the physical disks anyway.
Years ago I was loading itunes on a windows laptop (cant for the life of me remember why, maybe I wanted quicktime to watch dome climbing video or something, or maybe I'd just bought an iphone more like...). Anyway, it started to convert all my mp3's to some apple format 'all by itself' (well, I certain never requested it to do that).
As a consequence I've pretty much avoided anything music related from apple ever since.
I guess I'm a Luddite at heart though. Having had hard drives fail (and I'm not the most rigorous of backer uppers out there) I prefer to have a hard copy (cd).
Looks like there may be a bug in the software, it's not people just ticking the wrong boxes.
[url= http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/05/12/proof_that_apple_music_is_deleting_mp3_files.html ]http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/05/12/proof_that_apple_music_is_deleting_mp3_files.html[/url]
Apple confirm it is a real issue
[url= http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/13/apple-confirms-music-deletion-fix-coming/ ]MacRumors[/url]
Cool. Shame ah, that erm, video is uh, so um, long and er tedious (why don't people practice before they upload?!)
But looks like Aplle have some fixing to do!
Music is removed, not deleted!
Music is removed, not deleted!
I started my career in software development, we used to call a bug once documented, a feature. Why spend money on "mac clean up" apps when iTunes can do it for you 😉
Not sure how Apple can make this good, if you delete someone's music how do they get it all back ?
Yes, I've used a 'feature' to explain lots of bugs! Fortunately I don't write much software.
I think you'll probably find it's [i]curated[/i], not removedMusic is removed, not deleted!
And certainly your fault
I think you'll probably find it's curated, not removed
I knew this would be Zane Lowe's fault somehow.
"Curated" brilliant !
If its deleted surely its in the trash? Apple have really ballsed this up
Anyway, it started to convert all my mp3's to some apple format 'all by itself' (well, I certain never requested it to do that).
As a consequence I've pretty much avoided anything music related from apple ever since.
If you mean it converted to AAC, then that's just Apple's name for MP4, which is the music codec developed for video use by the MP3 foundation, and which produces higher quality files than the older MP3 format, and neither are Apple formats; Apple has to pay a license fee to use them, just like everyone else does, as they're proprietary formats.
Apple Lossless is open source, and anyone can use it.
Apple released a new iTunes along with OSX, iOS yesterday. ITunes chnages include cosmetic but also a reference to the "deletion" bug which they say they cannot replicate thus cannit conclusively fix
[url= http://www.macrumors.com/2016/05/16/apple-releases-itunes-12-4-with-design-tweaks/ ]Link[/url]