Someone should make a tool that creates mp3s having the metadata of other real songs for apple to match on.
Re:Apple Stole My Music
by rabboRubble on Thursday May 05, 2016 @05:33PM
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There already is... https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
Apparently Amazon uses this tagging service to keep its online music library organized.
what the parent poster meant was crafting audio files and metadata that would match what apple checks against ones, such as to get free music
Re:Apple Stole My Music
by therealdrag0 on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:36PM
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Clever.
I don't know if it's intentional filling in for songs they couldn't license or metadata matching gone wrong, but occasionally on Spotify a song on an old album is replaced with an inferior remix from a newer album.
Intentionally or not, history (what songs actually were on an album) gets edited unless you manage music files yourself.
(The Apple behavior described in the article is way worse than what Spotify does, of course.)
It shouldn't be hard to imagine that metadata will have collisions, and include something like a hash of the actual data.