Apple Music Fail

It was just a matter of time, but this iTunes Match user (who generally sings the service’s praises) just found an instance of the Apple Music bug where Match users are finding that songs have been removed from their My Music libraries. Tracks 1-3 of the Rush Vapor Trails remix are gone, gone gone.

Hey Apple… I want my missing files back.

I sure hope the last backup I did has everything that Apple removed.

Addendum: The bug is dumber than I thought. I organize my iTunes library in playlists. Every song I have exists in at least one playlist, and when I use iTunes, the playlist view is the only one I ever use. When I’m using my iPhone or iPad it sometimes feels faster to find what I want to listen to by pulling up the artist, and then drilling down to the album. That’s what I did when I noticed the Apple Music bug. The full album exists in Apple Music, just not under the artist/album in My Music.

Those three songs appear in about 1000000000 different versions in My Music (ah bootlegs), so I thought I’d search for one of them and see if any others disappeared. Imagine my surprise when not only did I not notice any other versions of “One Little Victory” missing from the search results, but the remix album version actually appeared and I could click it and play it. Well, that’s dumb. It’s still labeled correctly, but it shows up in search but not in the album itself. Right. Dumb.

I then thought, I made a playlist for Vapor Trails that included the album, the remixed album, and the couple of additional remixed songs from a compilation album. I went to my playlists… and the missing songs were all there (“Ceiling Unlimited – Remix” is playing in my ear buds as I type this).

Well… that’s just… Dumb.

Fix this please, Apple. Fix it soon.

Mr Fanboy Complains

This is an unusual topic for me. This is the one where the unabashed Apple fanboy bitches about Apple.

Let’s see if I have the time line correct on this.

About two months ago I tried to associate the laptop I use when I work from home to my Apple ID. It sort of failed because I had too many computers authorized and I didn’t want to do to the work to find one to deauthorize, or to deauthorize all of them and start over. I just decided to forget about whatever I had been planning to do.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago when we had the whole tablet computer shake up. Jen got a new iPad Mini and passed her iPad Air down to me. When I tried to set up my iTunes Match account I was given an error message stating my account would not be available to be added to a new machine for something like 40 days.

Ummm… What?

Apparently, Apple has a policy that states when you associate your iTunes account to a new device you must wait 90 days to associate it to another device.

Really?

You mean I can’t access the iTunes Match account THAT I PAY FOR on my new iPad? I can’t listen to the music THAT I PAID FOR on my new iPad? I can’t watch movies and TV shows THAT I PAID FOR on my new iPad?

That seems to be the case, yes. I did some forum searching for ways around it and I couldn’t find anything.

So while I wait out the final four weeks or so I have given the finger to Apple and gone back to setting up one of my pre-iTunes Match my-music-in-the-cloud solutions.

Google Music.

That’s right, Apple. I am setting up Google Music to run in place of the iTunes Match THAT I PAY FOR on my own swanky Apple device. Unlike the last time I looked at Google Music, there is an official Google iOS app. I just test drove it while driving over to Dunks and back. It worked great. I’m using it on my MacBook right now. Richard and Linda Thompson are sounding great over the Google entry in the iTunes competition game.

I want my account, Apple. I want it now and I am willing to give my fanboydome to your enemy while you fail to give it to me.

More Tablet Fun

I mentioned yesterday that my wife wanted to shake up her tablet using ways. This directly affected me in two ways. First, as mentioned yesterday, I inherited a Nexus 7. The second, much more important way, is that I just inherited her iPad Air. Ah, retina display! I was using the second iPad 3. The one with the lightning connector. This one is newer, lighter, and smaller but with the same size screen. Jen, my love, has switched to an iPad Mini. So far we are both pleased.

I restored the Air with a back up of the 3 I made this morning. I’ve had some trouble restoring in app purchases. I hate those things. The big issue is that iTunes is telling me I can’t access iTunes Match for 42 days. Whatwhatwhat???

In unrelated news, while cooking lunch on the grill outside, I think I found the hawks’ nest. It’s really close to the yard. I’ll be camping outside with my camera soon.

An unknown error occurred (4002)

I’ve been getting a message from iTunes stating, An unknown error occurred (4002). I get it constantly. Every few minutes it pops up. It’s been driving me nuts. It’s so annoying!

I finally got fed up enough to Google the error. Apple’s support forum states that I should turn off iTunes Match, turn on Genius and let it run all the way through, and then turn on iTunes Match again. Well, Genius is finished and Match is running again. Why do I need Genius on? Why is that suddenly a requirement for Match?

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