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October 10

BT-Audio mystery

Resolved

– 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:0:0:0:3 (talk) 20:43, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My Bluetooth-equipped (BT-Audio) car mysteriously "acquired" an album of music that I don't have on my phone or any other device. Nobody else has driven this car, and I can't figure out how this happened. Is it possible that it inadvertently downloaded it from a neighbor or even a passerby? I suppose it is possible that it was hacked, but this seems unlikely. Any other possibilities? 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:0:0:0:3 (talk) 18:52, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How soon did you notice this? It could be a pre-loaded album. Installed as a sales-and-marketing ploy, to alert the new owner that he can spend load of money on BT by downloading music more to her/his liking . If you can name the album, others may be able to confirm “Yes, I found I had that lousy album as well.. wondered where it came from”.--Aspro (talk) 19:38, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed this a few days ago -- and the car is a 2013 Jetta that I purchased new. The album is U2 (didn't notice which one, not Joshua Tree)) 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:0:0:0:3 (talk) 19:49, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If the album was Songs of Innocence, and you are (or were) a customer of iTunes Music Store, you very probably do own that album: as our article describes, the album was automatically added to users' libraries as a free gift in 2014. It is conceivable that this album was in your library; it is conceivable that it synchronized to your car's system. I do not know why you never noticed the album until now - we could speculate among many possible explanations.

If you do not want the album, you can remove it from your library and your account-history. You can also read all about this history of this album and its unusual distribution as a "free gift" in our encyclopedia article on that topic - needless to say, not everybody wanted to receive this gift, and it was the source of much confusion and much discussion when it happened en masse in 2014.

If you are not a user of iTunes Music Store, the album may have come from some other source.

Nimur (talk) 20:01, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that's the album. I think the mystery is solved. As far as I know, I'm not a "user" of iTunes Store -- but I recently bought a new iPhone and synced it with the car. The new phone is still a mystery to me, and will check into it. Thanks! 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:0:0:0:3 (talk) 20:11, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]