Apple releases U2 album removal tool

Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by knd775 on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:01PM (#8320315)

I heard a lot of people complain that the album had been automatically added to their library. I'm glad that they made a simple way for people with limited knowledge to remove it.

I still don't understand why the songs were automatically added and downloaded. Why were they not simply made available for free on iTunes?

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by ssharp on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:07PM (#8320370)

If they were made free, they wouldn't be getting all the publicity.

It seems like big artists are now using quirky ways and partnerships to release albums in order to drum up publicity and increase reach.

Jay Z pre-released his last album with Samsung as an app. Beyonce released an album completely by surprise. Now U2 releases an album where iOS users just get it by default.

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by ripter on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:13PM (#8320403)

It must be a setting, it didn't automatically download for me. It just added it to my 'paid' music section, but I still had to select download.

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by kayoone on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:03PM (#8320336)

I think it depends on your icloud settings. If you set music to automatically download when added to your library, the song would just pop up on your device.

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Re:Apple releases U2 album removal tool by Caballera5678 on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:24PM (#8320464)

Correct. The album was simply added to everyone's iTune's Library, if on your iDevice under the iTunes & App store settings had 'Music' enabled for 'Automatic Downloads' then any new purchases (including free) would be automatically downloaded onto your device. If you don't have that setting enabled, the album wasn't downloaded.

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