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In regard to whether Apple is aware of this, I do not know. In response to some of the other previous comments I to have a large library and using atomic parsley to convert one file at a time would not be feasible.
#Mp3tag tutorial itunes gapless update#
I am waiting to update to bed at three today to see if it is stable first. However, I suspect that it is less The problem does persist on iOS 14 and watchOS 7 developer better one. In response to some of the other previous comments I too have a large library and using atomic parsley to convert one file at a time would not be feasible. I am waiting to update to beta 3 today to see if it is stable first. Try this on one of your albums, then add that album to the Music app on your Mac and sync it to your iPhone, and see if your Apple watch is able to play it back.Ĭlick to expand.The problem does persist on iOS 14 and watchOS 7 dev beta 1. You can get the plID by copying the large number out of the Apple Music URL, for example for this album the plID should be 201281514. Unfortunately, if you use a different plID than the one Apple uses in their store, then the "View Album" feature won't work because it doesn't know where to go to. You can also list all of the current tags on your file by running this command:Įvery track in a particular album should have the same plID, and every album should have a different plID. $ AtomicParsley yourfile.m4a -plID 123456789 I use a modified version of AtomicParsley (command line tool) for this so I can script the updates, because doing this with a graphical tool for thousands of files in my music collection would be ridiculous. You need to create a unique plID for every album in your collection, and use a tool to update your files to set that value on each of your music files.
#Mp3tag tutorial itunes gapless download#
This is why the files that you buy from Apple work, but any files you download from other vendors, or from CDs you've ripped yourself, won't work.įortunately, there is a solution to defeat Apple's anti-competitiveness, but it will take some work on your part. Of course, this means that the Apple Watch will only correctly play files that have the plID tag. You know, because Apple is the only place in the world to purchase music and every album ever made is available from Apple and why would you even think about buying your music from anyone else but Apple? While the Music apps on the Mac/iPhone/iPad all group by album artist + album name (aART + alb), which is a sensible solution, the Apple Watch developers (in their infinite wisdom) apparently decided to make their version of the app group by plID, which is a unique numeric ID that Apple uses to identify the album in the Apple Music (iTunes) store.
#Mp3tag tutorial itunes gapless software#
Your AAC files contain MPEG-4 audio metadata which tells your playback software how they should be grouped. Apple's engineers are obviously never going to figure this out so I'll give you the actual problem and its solution.
