![]() ![]() The trouble with lossless codecs is that they’re very inefficient - even a compressed lossless format like FLAC or ALAC is generally encoding things that humans simply cannot hear. Intuitively, it seems as if more data will mean higher quality, but this isn’t always the case. !It’s a common misconception to measure expected audio quality in terms of bitrate. Whatever the case, if you do have sync problems with an iOS device, I’d suggest getting Dupin and scouring your library. So there’s some odd combination here causing the issue. Rob never had problems syncing his iPhone 5, and I saw sync problems with my iPhone 6, but my 5s generally syncs without any issues. I wonder if this is just a bug with iTunes, or with specific iOS devices. But why would it have, in my case, only transferred one album? ![]() I know I’ve done that at times, when I’ve updated apps on my iPhone, for example, and didn’t want to download them again in iTunes (since my bandwidth is limited). What is more likely is that these duplicates were added to his library when he chose to transfer purchases from an iOS device: And Rob is sure that he never downloaded his duplicate tracks twice, but what was interesting was some of them were older 128 kbps tracks with DRM, and some were newer versions perhaps he upgraded them, at some point, and iTunes didn’t delete the older ones? I know I had never downloaded that album twice, so I suspect something odd going on behind the scenes in iTunes when it organizes libraries. ( Read Doug’s write-up of the story.) I ran Dupin, and was surprised to find that I, too, had a number of duplicates, one of which was a full purchased album by Bob Dylan. Rob eventually scoured his library with Doug Adams’ Dupin, an app that finds duplicates in iTunes. I’ve seen this occur in the past when syncs are interrupted, but this was happening to me with a new device, allowing it to sync completely. For example, in the few days that I had my iPhone 6, I had to restore it twice, because the device lost track of my music and showed it all as “Other” content. I’m not sure this is the only issue, because sync problems are multifarious. This is interesting, in part because I get lots of emails about problems with syncing iOS devices, and I’d never found a cause. When encountered, a duplicate of a purchased song will (almost always) cause iTunes to silently stop syncing.” “In the current version of iTunes/iOS, there’s a bug that only appears when you have duplicates of purchased songs. It turned out, as Rob explains, that the problem was caused by duplicate tracks in his iTunes library: Rob took the extreme move of writing to Tim Cook, one of whose staffers read the email and reacted, quickly. He could sync some content, but not movies then some movies, but not all then he couldn’t sync at all. He had gotten a brand new iPhone 6, ( and ribbed me about it), but was having problems syncing it. My friend Rob Griffiths pinged me the other day. There’s also a $5,000 edition, which is probably sold out by now: only 50 copies, signed by Bob. I read that there are 500 copies for the UK, and it’s interesting that the UK edition has a different ISBN.) (While not specifically a limited edition – it’s not numbered – the publisher has said that there was a limit to the number of copies they’re printing it’s not clear if there will be reprints. And you’d better act quickly there are only 3,500 copies of this book being printed, so I have a feeling it will be sold out fast. But if you like Bob Dylan, you will want to have this book. Is Dylan planning to hang up the guitar and end his never-ending tour? Perhaps. This book, the size of LP covers, will feature Dylan’s lyrics, album covers, notes and annotations to the many hundreds of Dylan songs.(, Amazon UK)Ī book like this seems like an end-of-career milestone. ![]() There have been collections of his lyrics in the past, but a massive new book, due out in a few weeks, will collect all the lyrics to his songs, including some never released, in an annotated edition. In hundreds of songs, Dylan has told tales in his own unique way. If you’re a Bob Dylan fan, you certainly appreciate the poetry of his lyrics. ![]()
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