Thursday, April 3, 2014

Adventures in iTunes

My sister is getting married in a little under a week, and yesterday I spent a few hours purchasing music off of iTunes for their reception. Partly because I'm a good sister and have excellent taste, but mostly because it's fun to spend other people's money. After getting everything purchased, I took the time to transfer all of the songs to a playlist, figure out which configuration would randomize the songs best, and then listened (and am still listening) to the playlist to make sure all of the songs are actually as awesome as I thought they would be.

So far, I've only had one problem with a song. It's an instrumental version of Coldplay's "Clocks" by the cellist duo 2Cellos. I thought, quite naively apparently, that this would be a pleasant song, since the other songs I had purchased by 2Cellos were perfect. Unfortunately, they decided that this song required a pianist, and that pianist decided to get a little crazy with it, and it basically turns into an uncomfortable piano solo for half of the song. So I had to send in a request to iTunes get a refund for the song, because there was no way I was keeping it, or even listening to it again for as long as I live.

This is what I sent in to iTunes:


Think of the children. 



A few hours later I received a response. I almost believed that there was a real person behind the words, until I read it a little closer. 



Lea is either 1 of 2 things: A robot response that could almost be generic enough to work in just about every situation, or she is a very tired and slightly illiterate Apple employee. My money is on the second option. 


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