Earlier this week, Cult of Mac wrote about an iTunes Match bug that matches explicit songs to clean ones. The bug effectively filters out all profanities from an explicit song, which many people might not like.
Apple has, according to an email received by a 9 t0 5 Mac reader, acknowledged the issue and is working on a fix:
A 9to5 reader emailed Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services about the issue a couple of weeks ago and received a response from one of Eddy Cue’s engineers. According to the engineer, Apple is currently investigating the issue and working on a fix. Apple has no interim workaround for users of the iTunes Match service, the email elaborated.
The heaviest hit due to this bug would be avid rap music listeners. Cult of Mac could reproduce the bug for the following songs:
- Kanye West’s “Hell Of A Life” from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Kanye West’s “Power” from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Jay-Z’s “Can I Live” from Reasonable Doubt
- Ice Cube’s “Jack N The Box” from Raw Footage
Have any of you noticed the bug while using iTunes Match?
[via 9 to 5 Mac, Cult of Mac]
Hell yes I thought I was taking crazy pills
Also works the other direction. I have some albums I specifically got in the clean version because of my daughter. And then iTunes match went and matched them with the Explicit versions. They need a way for us to tag the versions.
Any time for release in Asia?