interesting Itunes bug (feature?)
I have a LOT of media - I listen to music 19 hours a day, and I’m a frequent purchaser on the Apple iTunes Store - I’ve never had an issue with Apple’s DRM, I understand the need for it, it’s never caused me any pain - until today.
I’ve been reorganizing my iTunes libraries onto a large (locally attached) external drive, that gets sync’d to my studio server - works flawlessly, except that this morning I realized that even though both of my machines are authorized to play DRM’d content, neither of them could, kind of a scary thought since I have 1000’s of dollars worth of DRM’d music.
On a hunch I relaunched itunes (with the option key down) and reverted back to my original iTunes library (local to my internal drive) and tried playing the same album - played fine, following the same hunch, I relaunched iTunes went back to the new library and used iTunes to import the DRM’d music from the old library to the new library - it plays, cursory examination of the files shows they’re the same, same size, creation dates, modified dates - yet the manually copied files don’t play.
I’ll add it to the list of things I hate about iTunes (coming to this blog very soon)