songs

It doesn't have to get 100% of songs, and when it does get songs, it's perfectly ok for it to not recognize which particular performance a song is from if the artist has multiple versions.

If you subscribe to both iTunes Match and Apple Music, then iTunes matches your songs using digital fingerprinting.

Flaw in that you can match songs you down own or that the meta data might be wrong?

I know that writing, recording and marketing songs is difficult, but just because something is difficult doesn't mean it is worth a lot.

Did plurk sue a poor PhD student who downloaded 30 songs and win a judgement against them for almost $700,000?

Ultimately (when the dust settles) it will mean that a greater proportion of your music dollar can go to artists who create songs and less to the intermediaries.

So they ended up playing a lot of songs they wouldn't have otherwise, and accidentally played an eclectic mix of music.

If you want a bunch of songs or albums you don't have it's just a matter of search for it and listening to it, and to hit the 'make songs available offline' button.

I didn't have any problems myself (not a huge collection, but it worked well for 24GB of songs).

MTV was launched at this same time but when it hit the air it had a problem, most songs didn't have music videos.

Mostly bootlegs that were returning from the cloud as the original studio songs, I lost a lot of them.

If you only subscribe to Apple Music, or are using it on a free trial, then your songs are matched using metadata only.

If this is true, you can create thousands of 1 second "songs" with different metadata and fill up your library really fast.

If you have Apple Music, you already have access to the entire catalog, so there's no trickery to gain "free songs", because they're already available.

"Nevermore will I bumble through endless confusing aisles like a pack-donkey searching for feed while the smell of rotting flesh fills my nostrils and fluorescent lights sear my eyeballs and sappy love songs torture my ears." Author needs to cheer the fuck up - his life sounds like a chore...