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Hi, when I play songs on Cider (2.6.2.16) that are from my local files it automatically matches it to songs on Apple Music- however, this does not occur when I play the songs off of iTunes or Apple Music directly. This is an issue because it messes up my scrobbles (I don't have LastFM premium). Does anyone have a fix for this? Thanks in advance :)


edit: also I have a friend who had the same song on their Cider (same version) that was not auto matching -> when I uploaded their file and tried scrobbling it also auto matched, but not on their end so I am assuming this is an error with Cider settings or iTunes settings (maybe not a bug which is why I'm posting here)

Cider Dev here, In this world, there are 3 major systems for decrypting copyright protected content (referred to as a CDM or Content Decryption Module) - WideVine by Google - available on all platforms - PlayReady by Microsoft - Windows & X-Box only - FairPlay by Apple - Apple devices only* When the application goes to apple services and requests the ways to play it, it returns the AAC playback options for all 3, however the only lossless sources are FairPlay, meaning that devices without FairPlay (i.e. non-Apple devices) will be unable to decrypt the audio, meaning no lossless playback. Although we do have the Cider Audio Lab which uses the way AAC is encoded to make it sound a lot better. It's not lossless but it is WAY closer than normal AAC is. Unless you have a pair of US$10k headphones with a US$10k DAC or something, you most likely will not be able to tell the difference...
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleMusic/comments/11c0ibd/comment/jqyf9b0/

pretty sure it imports your local files from itunes/apple music, if you can find a way to import it there youd be able to listen to it on cider