Dealing With Deluxe Albums

Many classic albums have been remastered, expanded, and made "deluxe" by adding remixes, live version, and other such things. In the case of Purple Rain, this turns a 44 minute album into a 3+ hour long album full of the same few songs repeated multiple times. This is far from ideal. I thought Apple Music would get me out of this trap based on the first few albums I looked up, but here we are.

Thankfully, due to How I Use Apple Music, I have a solution for this problem. Since I treat Apple Music like a store, I can cherry pick the original songs from an album to add to my Library. The end result is a version of the album in my local Library that is pretty true to the original 9 tracks.

While I'm sure die hard fans may like these 3 hours long expanded editions, they seem like an awful way to introduce someone to an album or artist for the first time. I'm glad there is a relatively easy, although a little annoying, way around this. I'm also thankful that Wikipedia seems to be good at cataloging the original track listing of these albums so I have an easy way to find what should be there.