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Apple forces music onto iTunes customers, then releases "U2 removal tool".

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BBC News - Apple releases U2 album removal tool

"Apple has released a tool to remove U2's new album from its customers' iTunes accounts six days after giving away the music for free.
Some users had complained about the fact that Songs of Innocence had automatically been downloaded to their devices without their permission.
It had not been immediately obvious to many of the account holders how to delete the tracks."


Is U2's music really that bad that they had to force people to have it? :rolleyes:
 
Might not be U2, but having Apple make the choice. TMO has exempted some music streaming from data costs - I don't want it. Did Apple waive the carrier charge if you did download or play it, did Apple mess up however you have your music set up? People feel it's their private Itunes and Apple has no business putting music there they don't want.

Apple uses it for the commercial - it isn't that good.
 
Anyone with an iTunes account can download the album for free. I've listened to a few tracks and it was worth everything I paid for it. :rolleyes:

I'm going to have to get out my Polka band and yodeling 8-track tapes to erase the memory of it. ;)
 
nickdalzell said:
Google Play Music also loads songs you may or may not like into Play Music too.
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dibblebill said:
I haven't ever had this experience.
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I believe Play Music *lists* songs you can load, but doesn't download them. The U2 album is pushed out to the iPhones without option (I think ... i don't really care enough to research further :eek: Yeah, I'm one lazy bast ... um ... person. ;) )
 
I have never really listened to U2, so I can't comment as to their talent.

There is music in my Google Play library that I have no idea where the hell it came from.
Sweet Pain - Anthony David(who the hell is this guy?)
The Descent - Bob Mould(wtf?)
Drinking Side of Country - Bucky Covington
Cherokee - Sun
Would That Not Be Nice - Divine Fits
Exclusive Ninja Tune Mix - ESKMO.....I don't even......
Flowers in Your Hair - The Lumineers(at least I've heard of them I guess)
Me and My Shadow (feat. Zooey Deschanel) - M. Ward
Steel and Blood - Minus the Bear
It's Only Rock N Roll - The Rolling Stones (finally somebody more mainstream)


I never purchased any of these songs....and yet, here they are.
 
bjacks12 said:
Exclusive Ninja Tune Mix - ESKMO.....I don't even......
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c'mon. Admit it, you are a Ninja Turtle fan. ;)

I never purchased any of these songs....and yet, here they are.
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Couldn't tell you who put them there. I don't have anything in my Play Music Library but the few albums I stuck there. There is a wayward Samsung track on my Note, but only one.
 
Forcing people to get music they didn't ask for makes people think that someone hacked their iTunes account and bought the album

It's probably the stupidest things apple has done lately.

Is it so hard to make a message appear when you log on saying something like "hey iTunes user, we have a free album from U2 for you. Would you like to download it?"

Then the user has the choice to download or not.
 
What is happening is that iTune users are finding that the U2 album is automatically in their library. If the users have their settings set to automatically download, it will automatically download to their phone. People are complaining that the album is in their library and cannot remove it, so Apple made a removal tool. This removal tool will remove the U2 album from their library. However, if you use it, you will not be able to ever download it again if you should change your mind. If you use the removal tool and then later hear a song from the album that you like and want to download it, you cannot.

What I think Apple should have done is just make it available to add to your library and download just like any other album except that it is free instead of costing money. Then people can choose to download it or add it to their library. If they really want to promote it, they can do so as an ad when people launch iTunes or through other advertising methods.
 
Actually Play Music does load songs in your library and saves them on device as well, and they cannot be removed. Two examples are Merle Haggard--Pretty when it's new and M Ward--Primitive Girl.
 
Stuntman said:
What is happening is that iTune users are finding that the U2 album is automatically in their library. If the users have their settings set to automatically download, it will automatically download to their phone. People are complaining that the album is in their library and cannot remove it, so Apple made a removal tool. This removal tool will remove the U2 album from their library. However, if you use it, you will not be able to ever download it again if you should change your mind. If you use the removal tool and then later hear a song from the album that you like and want to download it, you cannot.

What I think Apple should have done is just make it available to add to your library and download just like any other album except that it is free instead of costing money. Then people can choose to download it or add it to their library. If they really want to promote it, they can do so as an ad when people launch iTunes or through other advertising methods.
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I think the point was to stroke U2's ego and give them a blurb in Guinness book of world records about having the album owned by the most people on day one or some such. Kind of an empty accomplishment when they gave it away for free and most of the people thought that was too expensive lol. People jumping through hoops to get rid of it...how's the ego feeling now, Bono?
 
At least it wasn't Justin Beiber.

I've seen the ad, and I don't think you see any faces, just multicolored silhouettes.
I wouldn't have known who they were. The free album could have been remuneration for not showing faces and doing a generic ad. Like the first ipod ad. Just black silhouettes doing things with the white earphones plugged it.

I've heard the music, but no station ever announces the group.
 
nickdalzell said:
Actually Play Music does load songs in your library and saves them on device as well, and they cannot be removed. Two examples are Merle Haggard--Pretty when it's new and M Ward--Primitive Girl.
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Hmmm. I don't have them ... haven't seen them, or any tracks pushed to my phones. :dontknow:
 
I'll amend that- I've found one or two tracks on recent close inspection I don't REMEMBER downloading, but then again, for a while, I clicked on every free offer Play Music made to me. It's impossible to say those songs weren't part of that. All of those, even Busta Rhymes's album I downloaded for free (in a misguided effort to get FREE STUFF), were deasily deletable from the app and web interface, and removed from my library.
 
nickdalzell said:
Actually Play Music does load songs in your library and saves them on device as well, and they cannot be removed. Two examples are Merle Haggard--Pretty when it's new and M Ward--Primitive Girl.
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Just removed both of em so perhaps something is wrong with your phone? :confused:

 
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Looking closer at that ad, I actually owned that Toshiba cassette player (#4). It looked cool but fell apart almost right away. Some things never change, Toshiba still makes fancy-looking junk. :p
 
bjacks12 said:
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Looks like a page from the Argos catalogue.

Cathay!, there's a brand I've not seen in a long time. Cheapo Hong Kong things, wows and hisses like anything and eats your "free U2 tape" for dinner. :rolleyes: "Cathay" being another name for "China", no relation to Cathay Pacific of course. BTW "War"(1983) is one of my favourite albums of U2, don't care much for their later stuff though.

Think Alba are still around, a brand name on Android tablets that belong here. http://androidforums.com/faqs/631594-off-brand-phones-tablets-worth-low-cost.html
 
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