I am pretty sure that we can expect a disclaimer about how this is a bug and will be dealt with immediately, at least we hope it is a bug, but Tom Cheredar over at VentureBeat is reporting that users if iTunes Match are finding that songs in their collections that have ‘explicit’ lyrics are getting replaced with ‘clean’ versions.
Now the iTunes Match service is something fairly new from Apple and allows members to have legal access to any songs currently in your iTunes music library and for $25 per year you can download your songs from Apple’s cloud to any device running the iOS 5 operating system. It is here where the “glitch” is showing up in that only ‘clean’ versions of the songs are being downloaded, not your “explicit” versions that you wanted to listen to.
Apparently it has been confirmed that this has happened in regards to songs by Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Ice Cube. There have been several blogs that have reached out to Apple for confirmation but we are still waiting to hear back.
However as Tom Cheredar points out in his post on the news this bug does show that this isn’t a true cloud storage solution as what you download should be exactly what you uploaded. I think it also points out once more Apple’s puritanical tendencies but we’ll have to wait and see just how they spin this one to really decide.
