I am having a problem with doubletwist. Songs, artwork and whole
albums are disappearing from my half-full 128gb SD card.
Everything works fine on it on my Galaxy and it stores all my apps
and data. But I cant update it on my Mojave 2016 MBP from iTunes
because when I plug the card into my MBP, it has suddenly started
demanding what it calls "initialisation"!
I am VERY reluctant to screw with it for fear everything will stop
working on it. Is there anything safe which I can do to
"initialise" it or to let it update (?) from Doubletwist to the newer "doubleTwist Classic Player alpha" (assuming doubleTwist Classic
Player alpha IS an update of doubleTwist?)
I remember someone once posted about losing a "bootleg" music collection
when they let it pass through iTunes for whatever reason. All gone,
replaced with standard album releases of the same songs.
In article <svrfbt$d17$1@gioia.aioe.org>, corvid <bl@ckb.ird> wrote:
I remember someone once posted about losing a "bootleg" music
collection when they let it pass through iTunes for whatever reason.
All gone, replaced with standard album releases of the same songs.
the reason is because that's what the user told itunes to do, most
likely as part of itunes match, a service they not only have to
activate, but also pay for.
itunes match will match existing songs in the user's library with ones
in apple's catalogue and *optionally* replace them with higher quality versions, if the user chooses to do so.
it does not (nor cannot) happen randomly.
tl;dr - user error.
On 2022-03-03, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
In article <svrfbt$d17$1@gioia.aioe.org>, corvid <bl@ckb.ird>
wrote:
I remember someone once posted about losing a "bootleg" music
collection when they let it pass through iTunes for whatever
reason. All gone, replaced with standard album releases of the
same songs.
the reason is because that's what the user told itunes to do, most
likely as part of itunes match, a service they not only have to
activate, but also pay for.
itunes match will match existing songs in the user's library with
ones in apple's catalogue and *optionally* replace them with higher
quality versions, if the user chooses to do so.
it does not (nor cannot) happen randomly.
tl;dr - user error.
As a longtime subscriber to iTunes Match, I can confirm this from
first-hand experience. iTunes Match is an optional and opt-in
service that costs $24.99 per year.
When a song in your library is matched with Apple's music catalog,
you have the *option* (it's completely optional and opt-in) of
deleting your own song from your own library on your device, and can
download a high-quality DRM-free version of the matched song from
Apple's online catalog - this whole process is a *manual* process.
What's really cool about it is: Apple doesn't care where your local
songs come from - they could be crappy MP3s downloaded from literally anywhere - and you can replace them with pristine high-quality
DRM-free versions from Apple's catalog to keep forever with no
additional surcharge, even if you eventually cancel your iTunes Match subscription.
iTunes Match also makes your entire music library available for
on-demand streaming on all of your devices, which means you no
longer have to copy your music library to each of your devices or
keep it updated on them, which saves you time and tons of storage
space on your devices - space that those song files would otherwise
occupy.
It all works great and is well worth the cheap $2/month fee, IMHO.
On 3/4/22 11:31, Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2022-03-03, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:Wow! I thought that posting about it here might only wake up that
In article <svrfbt$d17$1@gioia.aioe.org>, corvid <bl@ckb.ird>
wrote:
I remember someone once posted about losing a "bootleg" music
collection when they let it pass through iTunes for whatever
reason. All gone, replaced with standard album releases of the same
songs.
the reason is because that's what the user told itunes to do, most
likely as part of itunes match, a service they not only have to
activate, but also pay for.
itunes match will match existing songs in the user's library with
ones in apple's catalogue and *optionally* replace them with higher
quality versions, if the user chooses to do so.
it does not (nor cannot) happen randomly.
tl;dr - user error.
As a longtime subscriber to iTunes Match, I can confirm this from
first-hand experience. iTunes Match is an optional and opt-in service
that costs $24.99 per year.
When a song in your library is matched with Apple's music catalog,
you have the *option* (it's completely optional and opt-in) of
deleting your own song from your own library on your device, and can
download a high-quality DRM-free version of the matched song from
Apple's online catalog - this whole process is a *manual* process.
What's really cool about it is: Apple doesn't care where your local
songs come from - they could be crappy MP3s downloaded from literally
anywhere - and you can replace them with pristine high-quality
DRM-free versions from Apple's catalog to keep forever with no
additional surcharge, even if you eventually cancel your iTunes Match
subscription.
iTunes Match also makes your entire music library available for
on-demand streaming on all of your devices, which means you no longer
have to copy your music library to each of your devices or keep it
updated on them, which saves you time and tons of storage space on
your devices - space that those song files would otherwise occupy.
It all works great and is well worth the cheap $2/month fee, IMHO.
childish and nauseating troll (not saying it”s Andy Burnelli, and not saying it isn’t).
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