WTF just wasted a half hour trying to get U2 off my iphone

[Don Vito Corleone]

I listened to it yesterday while mowing the lawn, and to me it has very little to recommend it - just very generic overall. I am not a huge U2 fan in general, but this feels like an uninspired outing.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Loool! It automatically downloads to your device?

Not if you disable that feature.

 

[eits]

did it automatically change your ringtone to this, too?

i think you should start answering your phone like bono, too.

 

[Gooberlx2]

The "cloud" songs actually show up as regular music files to any iphone/iPad accessory, so if you plug your phone into anything, you'll end up with U2... Whether you want it or not.

If you want your to only play music actually on the device.

Settings --> iTunes. Disable:
- Show All: Music
- iTunes Match
- Automatic Downloads: Music

If you want to play your cloud music, but NOT the U2 album, you'll probably have to use desktop iTunes to remove it from your cloud library.

 

[Childs]

I must be one of the lucky ones... iTunes says I've purchased it, but it's nowhere to be found in my collection or on my iDevices. After sampling the album... I don't want it.

You might have 'Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases' unchecked in iTunes (iTunes -> Preferences -> Store). I didn't even really want the album, but free is free so I spent 30 min or so trying to figure out why I couldn't find it on my Mac, even though iTunes said it was purchased.

 

[bradley]

They and the record company got compensated something like $100 million...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-devices-firm-paid-100-million-privilege.html

Instead of acting all benevolent, U2 should realize the truth gets out quickly nowadays and admit to being paid 100 million. Now I like these hypocrites even less, if that's possible.

For U2 and Apple, a Shrewd Marketing Partnership
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/b...of-innocence-appears-free-on-itunes.html?_r=0

To release U2’s album free, Apple paid the band and Universal an unspecified fee as a blanket royalty and committed to a marketing campaign for the band worth up to $100 million, according to several people briefed on the deal. That marketing will include a global television campaign, the first piece of which was a commercial that was shown during the event.

Bono, U2’s lead singer, alluded to the deal himself at Apple’s event. After the band performed, he and Mr. Cook playfully negotiated over how the album could be released through iTunes “in five seconds.” Mr. Cook said it could if the album was given away free.

“But first you would have to pay for it,” Bono said, “because we’re not going in for the free music around here.”

In my estimation, the entire band died in a horrific 1992 plane crash, the year after releasing Achtung Baby.

 

[shortylickens]

It's Bono's fault.

FUCK YOU! BONO IS THE MAN!

 

[Platypus]

The new U2 album has been one of the most widespread computer viruses of our time

god help us all

lol

Instead of acting all benevolent, U2 should realize the truth gets out quickly nowadays and admit to being paid 100 million. Now I like these hypocrites even less, if that's possible.

In my estimation, the entire band died in a horrible 1992 plane crash, the year after releasing Achtung Baby.

Bono basically said exactly that the day of the announcement...

 

[bradley]

lol

Bono basically said exactly that the day of the announcement...

I'm only finding some quotes from industry insiders and U2 management, not the band themselves, regarding the 100 million. I'll have to take your word for it, as Apple has made a Youtube copyright claim on video from the official announcement day. lol


EDIT: Nah, Bono was evasive to Time magazine. He admitted to getting paid, but would not divulge the amount. Well now the truth is out there for everyone to read, along with the U2 virus.

Bono On U2’s Not-So-Free iTunes Album: “We Were Paid”
Giving away Songs of Innocence wasn't some grand gesture—it was business
http://time.com/3313164/bono-u2-apple-itunes/

Now the secret is out—and distributed. For the more than half a billion iTunes subscribers, the new U2 album will be arriving in their iTunes libraries. But why did U2 decide to release Songs of Innocence in this way?...................... But releasing the album free to iTunes subscribers does not mean the band has given the album away. “We were paid,” Bono tells TIME. “I don’t believe in free music. Music is a sacrament.” Amen.

He won’t divulge what Apple shelled out for Songs of Innocence. Whatever the sum, it’s a gift to listeners.

 

[zinfamous]

I must be one of the lucky ones... iTunes says I've purchased it, but it's nowhere to be found in my collection or on my iDevices. After sampling the album... I don't want it.

In some cases, Bono downloads directly into your brain. You must be one of those "lucky" ones.

 

[squarecut1]

In my estimation, the entire band died in a horrific 1992 plane crash, the year after releasing Achtung Baby.

There was some good music made by them here and there a little after it, but yeah it was all downhill after the above album. Haven't bothered with any new U2 music in ages

 

[Platypus]

I'm only finding some quotes from industry insiders and U2 management, not the band themselves, regarding the 100 million. I'll have to take your word for it, as Apple has made a Youtube copyright claim on video from the official announcement day. lol


EDIT: Nah, Bono was evasive to Time magazine. He admitted to getting paid, but would not divulge the amount. Well now the truth is out there for everyone to read, along with the U2 virus.

Bono On U2’s Not-So-Free iTunes Album: “We Were Paid”
Giving away Songs of Innocence wasn't some grand gesture—it was business
http://time.com/3313164/bono-u2-apple-itunes/

yeah he didn't specify a dollar amount in the interview I read the day of the announcement, just that apple paid them for every copy. I don't really see that as being elusive as much as it's no one's business really.

U2 are horrible anyway and I wish Apple had allowed people to download if they wanted it instead of the way it went down. Oh well, not an iDevice/iTunes consumer myself so it doesn't really impact me, just seems wrong to me.

 

[Rakehellion]

Jay-Z sold his last album to Samsung who made it available through a spyware app.

 

[WelshBloke]

I'm only finding some quotes from industry insiders and U2 management, not the band themselves, regarding the 100 million. I'll have to take your word for it, as Apple has made a Youtube copyright claim on video from the official announcement day. lol


EDIT: Nah, Bono was evasive to Time magazine. He admitted to getting paid, but would not divulge the amount. Well now the truth is out there for everyone to read, along with the U2 virus.

Bono On U2’s Not-So-Free iTunes Album: “We Were Paid”
Giving away Songs of Innocence wasn't some grand gesture—it was business
http://time.com/3313164/bono-u2-apple-itunes/

"I don't believe in free music. Music is a sacrament."

What a fucking dick.

 

[Imp]

Instead of acting all benevolent, U2 should realize the truth gets out quickly nowadays and admit to being paid 100 million. Now I like these hypocrites even less, if that's possible.

They didn't state exactly how much they were paid, but considering how butt-hurt people get being asked their salary, that's not a surprise.

The first article I found about their "free" release quoted the "We were paid" line from Bono. It's an "iTunes exclusive" so pretty obvious that they were paid anyway.

I'm a U2 fan and can't really get into this album. Haven't finished going through all of it but nothing's really hooked me yet. Their last few albums after Pop have been more than okay, not sure what happened here. Oh, and I love Pop. Might be my favorite album.

 

[Oyeve]

Zooropa was the last album i got from them and primarily for the song featuring Johnny Cash. Been utter doo-doo since.

 

[zinfamous]

Zooropa was the last album i got from them and primarily for the song featuring Johnny Cash. Been utter doo-doo since.

Everything they released after Achtung is basically a different version of everything that was on Achtung.

 

[bradley]

They didn't state exactly how much they were paid, but considering how butt-hurt people get being asked their salary, that's not a surprise.

IPhone users should be equally butt-hurt by Apple allowing access to the ubiquitous U2 virus and Samsung allowing access to a Jay-Z spyware application.

I hope hackers get access to Bono's (Paul Hewson) and Jay Z's (Shawn Carter) devices and start uploading their own shitty music to it. lol

 

[GTaudiophile]

I listened to the album via Youtube after the iEvent earlier this week and I am disgusted by it. Luckily, this led to watching really good music from their golden years.

My favorite U2 albums...

1. Achtung Baby
2. Joshua Tree
3. ATYCLB

 

[IronWing]

I just checked iTunes and, yep, there it is in the recent purchases.

Is Bono autotuning these days? He sounds like he's trying to sound younger than he really is.


Edit: I realized he doesn't have the range anymore so he's avoiding trying which ends up making him sound kind of wimpy/whiny. The songs themselves aren't bad.

 

[lxskllr]

At least they extracted some money from Apple, so it isn't all bad. It must suck using a computer that follows someone else's commands :^D

 

[Imp]

I just checked iTunes and, yep, there it is in the recent purchases.

Is Bono autotuning these days? He sounds like he's trying to sound younger than he really is.


Edit: I realized he doesn't have the range anymore so he's avoiding trying which ends up making him sound kind of wimpy/whiny. The songs themselves aren't bad.

Something happened around the Pop Mart era. His voice just went. I think I read something about smoking or some illness. Go back to Zoo TV concerts up to the mid-90s and he could still hit a ton of notes. He's a lot more raspy since -- I still like it, but he was so much better back then.

Same with Harrison Ford... Why is he so raspy now.

 

[Ichinisan]

I know you can make it disappear by deleting it from your iTunes library *on a computer* and selecting the check mark option to "also delete from iCloud."

 

[Leros]

Why would you want to take it off your phone? It's the most downloaded album of all time, so it must be really good.

 

[midwestfisherman]

It took you an hour to delete one album?!?!