<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>Hi Bob,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for letting us know, that’s useful information!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Nov 2015, at 12:06, Robert Ludwig <<a href="mailto:gatewaybob@mac.com" class="">gatewaybob@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Hi everyone, especially Bob Katz, author of <i style="font-weight: bold;" class="">iTunes Music</i> !!</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">This is a little off topic, but we get so little response from Apple about <i class="">anything</i>, I <u class="">did</u> get some answers to a question I have been asking them for a while (as my clients kept asking me!)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Optima" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">My question was:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">How <u class="">different</u> do the versions of two songs need to be in order to NOT trigger the iTunes “complete my album” feature?</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Time, title, etc.?</font></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font color="#61177c" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Hi Bob</font><div class=""><font color="#61177c" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#61177c" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Some initial thoughts.<br class=""></font><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#7b219f" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Make the time more than 3 secs difference. </font></div><div class=""><font color="#7b219f" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Give the song a different ISRC.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#7b219f" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Make the title and version different.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#7b219f" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#7b219f" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Those differences *should* prevent a CMA.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==============================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Nov 20, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Bob Ludwig <<a href="mailto:gatewaybob@mac.com" class="">gatewaybob@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Hi Buddy,</font><div class=""><font face="Optima" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I hope all is well with you. Everything is still busy here and Adam just won another Latin Grammy for Album of the Year last night in Las Vegas!</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I’m re-sending a question to you I sent you in October:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Our question is:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">How <u class="">different</u> do the versions of two songs need to be in order to NOT trigger the iTunes “complete my album” feature?</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Time, title, etc.?</font></div><div class=""></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14px;" class="">I truly think it should be part of your MFiT white paper.</span></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Thanks Buddy,</font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">All my best,</font></div><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><font face="Optima" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Bob Ludwig<br class=""><br class="">Gateway Mastering Studios, Inc.<br class="">428 Cumberland Avenue<br class="">Portland, ME 04101<br class="">(207) 828-9400<br class=""><a href="http://www.gatewaymastering.com/" class="">www.gatewaymastering.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">MLA mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:MLA@grimmaudio.nl" class="">MLA@grimmaudio.nl</a><br class="">http://grimmaudio.nl/mailman/listinfo/mla_grimmaudio.nl<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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