Wrong Apple Music Songs

[Cayden]

I have been trying to download the album Regional at Best by twenty one pilots and have had many issues. This album had copy write issues so it is not available for sale anymore, but I have a CD copy of it. The problem is that many of the songs were rerecorded and released on a different album, so Apple Music recognizes the songs as the updated versions. The songs download fine on my Mac, but once I download them on my iPhone it downloads the wrong versions of the songs onto my phone. Is there any known fix for this?

 

[jsmith189]

Short answer, no.

Long answer, before you match the songs, you can try to rename them so that it doesn't match. For live albums for example, I add gibberish text to the title so that it doesn't match against anything in AM and then it uploads. That used to work, but after you rename them back, I've noticed it still tries to match anyway, even if you've uploaded it.

You could also try iTunes Match - it messed up my library, but iTM matches songs with an audio fingerprinting service too, so it's not just randomly trying to match metadata.

 

[Cayden]

Short answer, no.

Long answer, before you match the songs, you can try to rename them so that it doesn't match. For live albums for example, I add gibberish text to the title so that it doesn't match against anything in AM and then it uploads. That used to work, but after you rename them back, I've noticed it still tries to match anyway, even if you've uploaded it.

You could also try iTunes Match - it messed up my library, but iTM matches songs with an audio fingerprinting service too, so it's not just randomly trying to match metadata.

Thanks for the advice. I just tried it (simply adding demo in parentheses to the end of the duplicate songs) and it was able to sync up to my iPhone with the unmatched songs

 

[v0caltic]

Thanks for the advice. I just tried it (simply adding demo in parentheses to the end of the duplicate songs) and it was able to sync up to my iPhone with the unmatched songs

I did the same as you, but after a few days it seems to have "matched" my demos, remixes, and live tracks with studio versions anyways. I had a short time with my versions of the songs, and then it switched them all on my iPhone and iPad.

 

[Tech198]

just out of curiosity, if you change the names back after their uploaded, if u sync to your other devices, will they stay "as is" or will u find that it will be replaced at some stage because although their upload already, they now have the same name too ?

 

[v0caltic]

just out of curiosity, if you change the names back after their uploaded, if u sync to your other devices, will they stay "as is" or will u find that it will be replaced at some stage because although their upload already, they now have the same name too ?

I haven't renamed them after syncing to my iPhone, it just matched them automatically even with the title in the metadata changed. I even tried parentheses at both the beginning and end of the title and it made no difference.

 

[Cayden]

just out of curiosity, if you change the names back after their uploaded, if u sync to your other devices, will they stay "as is" or will u find that it will be replaced at some stage because although their upload already, they now have the same name too ?

Before Apple Music was out, I had this on my phone but due to beta issues I had to factory reset. Before I factory reset however, the actual music files were not matched once they were on my phone, but the album art was changed

 

[jsmith189]

I did the same as you, but after a few days it seems to have "matched" my demos, remixes, and live tracks with studio versions anyways. I had a short time with my versions of the songs, and then it switched them all on my iPhone and iPad.

Yep, same thing happened to me unfortunately. I don't know why it's trying to match when they're marked as uploaded - I guess they try to quickly re-match in case songs are added to the AM library since matching. Too bad they do it wrong.