anthony patton

SpeaksDolphin said:

I left Apple Music and came back to Spotify. I am tired of Apple Music changing the album artwork on my non-Apple iTunes/Apple Music lossless files I sync from my Mac to iPhone just because I have Apple Music/iCloud Music Library turned on. iTunes on my Mac has been reduced to an app that allows me to sync my own music files to my iPhone. I don't use it for anything else. On my Apple TV, I rent movies from iTunes.

I've been dealing with the same issue. It is quite annoying, especially when the cover it is replaced with looks horrible and/or is from something completely unrelated (this is rare but it happens). I also get this annoying prompt whenever I navigate to an album from a certain artist who's tracks aren't on the US iTunes store that says "These tracks are not available on the iTunes Store in your region" even though wasn't attempting to obtain them from iTunes, nor was I even in the iTunes Store app (they were lossless ALAC files synced through iTunes on my MacBook Pro that I purchased from Bandcamp). These aren't a huge deal or anything, as the most important thing is that I still am able to play my lossless tracks on my device without any playback issues, but it is annoying to have this beautiful hi-res album art replaced by lower res versions or something that isn't even right at all. I just submitted feedback to Apple recently about an iTunes bug that doesn't correctly display file sync progress when using App File syncing to an iOS device. I will likely submit another one about these issues, although I've been thinking about sending a letter to Cook himself (though I know it won't go to him directly) since this is certainly something that should not be STILL going on this far into Apple Music's service life.

robin huber said:

Which is corporate-speak for "even if we were (and we probably are) we wouldn't admit it."

Of course not. Project Titan isn't even supposed to exist according to Apple since they do not comment on speculation. Therefore, even if they actually were in talks, Apple wouldn't let them speak about it.