It seems #Apple is helpfully censoring your music collection now.
I have a carefully organised and saved (not always downloaded) Apple Music Library, but listening to Hypnotize by System of a Down I noticed “asshole” was being censored 🙃
The normal version of the album has been totally removed from the Apple Music catalogue, which also seems to have completely broken the iPhone's synced library so much the song titles are missing.
We're back to physical media or piracy having the best UX.
@True_Heresy Frack this sucks. The wierd US Christian moral police being enforced upon us.
They do not want you to hear bad words but if you have a gun and shoot someone that is just fine 🤷♂️🤦♂️
@stadsplanering It’s so weird, I’m in the UK ffs.
Literally the next two lines are “When I killed your rock ’n roll/Mow down the sexy people”
It’s just so weird, I don’t even know what you’re supposed to do if it keeps happening.
I’m liking hosting my own music on my server so far though, I can just pay the artist some actual money then download/rip some files and do whatever I want; who knew 🙃!?
Now I just need Plex to support a library view of Albums > By Artist > By Year I’d be set.
#Music Ecosystem Dream Let's face it, who of us music lovers has pirated nothing? I fairly refuse to do it myself these days, but my collection is full of past piracy. My dream is of a music player that acknowledges piracy and lets us say how we got tracks, whether by official or pirated means. It'd also let us pick our preferred outlet or price for each track / release, and tot up our outstanding amount. Then, with artists having a way to receive money, we may pay off piracy after the fact.
@True_Heresy @stadsplanering For whatever it’s worth: Plex may not directly support the view you describe, but its companion app, Plexamp, certainly does.
Too few people know about Plexamp, I’ve noticed. I like it lots.
@True_Heresy oh man yeah, i remember being very confused why i needed my music player to be a social network
Ping was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as being "sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes," but stating that "Ping is not Facebook" and "it is not Twitter," instead describing it as "something else ... all about music."looks like the vision for it may have not been clear to anyone lol@True_Heresy This feels like a cursed digital successor to how certain retailers would refuse to carry uncensored versions of "Parental Advisory / Explicit Content" works.
Thought we were done with petty puritanism but I guess not?
I’ve uploaded a few german Punk songs and they are all censored … there are now a lot off beeps. And those songs are not available via iTunes Store or Apple Music … they are from MY library
@True_Heresy As always, there's an evergreen xkcd comic for the occasion:
@True_Heresy that’s interesting, I noticed they were censoring the lyrics probably a few years ago but that always seemed very much separate from the organization of explicit versions. Like even if the song was marked explicit, the lyrics were censored. It seemed pretty inconsistent at the time though.
With all of the streaming service shenanigans I’m not even sure if this is the type of thing a class action could claim “didn’t get what we paid for” since the line has gotten so blurred.
@True_Heresy alwayshavebeen.jpg etc...
But yeah, I've always refused to engage in any sort of transaction for music that's not "I put money and you give me a regular ass file, no questions asked"
Any artist that doesn't make it available like that will simply never see my money. It's sad but... it's what you have to do in times of constant erosion of ownership
@True_Heresy
When I were out getting groceries last week I heard an edited version of "All summer long".
The only line that had been edited out was "We were smoking funny things."
The most stupid thing is the next song that came one was purely about "weed."
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