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iTunes plays audio files. It also has metadata for the audio: Artist, Title, album art, how many times a song has played...

It writes the metadata into the audio file. Badly.

In particular, it's that "Play Count": iTunes rewrites the audio file every time you play the song.

Usually it just corrupts the metadata enough to forget the album art. But it's perfectly willing to destroy the audio data.



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