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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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1140 points pattyj | 7 comments | 17 Sep 25 11:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.932s | source | bottom
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myshkin5 ◴[17 Sep 25 14:29 UTC] No.45276272[source]▶
I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here.

Sure security is important but integrity is too.

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1. potatoproduct ◴[17 Sep 25 15:28 UTC] No.45277025[source]▶
I got burned by Apple purposely corrupting my music library. I'm still salty about it.
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2. JadeNB ◴[17 Sep 25 15:49 UTC] No.45277291[source]▶
Purposely? Could you elaborate?
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3. llbbdd ◴[17 Sep 25 16:24 UTC] No.45277898[source]▶
Still can't get rid of that U2 album I'm guessing
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4. Xss3 ◴[17 Sep 25 17:28 UTC] No.45278798[source]▶
People, including me, had a lot of playlists of ripped cds and downloaded mp3s, all categorized, rated, and with years of play count history.

Then apple fucked everyones libraries up completely in an auto update, destroying the metadata and making them unusable, except for songs bought via apple music that is...

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5. teekert ◴[17 Sep 25 18:11 UTC] No.45279313[source]▶
Happend to my father as well, his songs were all over the place with the same albums even sharded over multiple folders etc. A big mess. Left him pretty sour indeed, he had spend a lot of time on it.

Btw, it was fine from withing iTunes, just never stop using iTunes I guess...

6. Andrex ◴[17 Sep 25 18:19 UTC] No.45279423{3}[source]▶
Oh that's easy, just download this extra piece of software which removes the album for you.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29208540

7. JadeNB ◴[17 Sep 25 20:35 UTC] No.45281080{3}[source]▶
"Purposely" seems strong, though. Is it believed that Apple intended this corruption?