Another iTunes Match Step 3 upload question

iTunes Match keeps failing on Step 3: Uploading artwork and remaining songs.
It completes steps 1 and 2, but then shortly after it starts step 3, my cable modem acts as if it has lost connectivity (lights go dim), Airport Extreme goes blinky yellow, and then both recover. If they can recover before iTunes Match times out, then the process continues; otherwise, the Stop button changes to Start, and I have to start over from step 1. The last attempt was a relatively big one--I got 67 items to upload.
My cable modem/Airport Extreme work flawlessly otherwise; this happens only during Step 3. I removed and reapplied power to both the cable modem and Airport Extreme, and I restarted the computer. What is going on here, and is there any way to keep iTunes Match from timing out (can the timeout interval be changed)?
Why is it necessary to keep repeating steps 1 and 2? The software should know where to resume. I have 4800 items to upload, and this is going to take forever. Not a good impression.

More information. I'm directly connected to cable modem (and have been), so Airport Extreme is not in the picture, other than that it's still running for my iPad and iPhone to connect to the Interwebs.
Whenever Match stops when trying to upload a song, I find the album and delete it. Then I start over. I now have half of my connection matched and a very small part of the rest uploaded. If I keep deleting albums, I guess my problem will be solved because there will be nothing to upload. I don't think this is how Match is supposed to work.
It's been all of a day since I signed up, and I've spent hours trying to resolve this. Is there any documentation beyond the feeble "Troubleshooting iTunes Match" document? It's not crashing, so I don't have any errors to refer to. It just hangs and then stops.

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Will iTunes Match re-upload songs replaced in Library at higher bitrate?

In my iTunes Library (18,000+ tracks, mainly ripped from my own CDs), I have tracks ripped at different bitrates, from 128, 160, 256, 320 kbps, as well as Apple Lossless. Given how cheap storage has become since I first ripped many of my CDs, I am going through my CD collection one last time and re-ripping everything into Apple Lossless (ALAC) format. I am starting with the tracks that are in the Library now at 128 & 160 kbps. Many of these songs have been matched by iTunes Match, so they are available to me from iTunes at 256 kbps, but I will still create ALAC versions.
My question is about the tracks that iTunes Match has uploaded to Apple. When I replace the tracks in my Library recorded at low bitrates with the ALAC version, I would like for iTunes Match to notice and re-upload the new file. I understand that iTunes Match will convert ALAC files and upload them at a max of 256 kbps, but right now it seems that iTunes Match does not recognize changes in the underlying file on my computer. For example, if a track was originally uploaded as 128 kbps and then I replace it in my Library with an ALAC version, the 128 kbps version stays on Apple's servers instead of being replaced by a 256 kbps version. I have tested this by downloading tracks from the cloud on other machines connected to my account and they come down at 128 kbps, even though an ALAC file is in the "master" Library.
So my question: is there a way to get iTunes to replace uploaded files on Apple's servers with the highest bitrate version possible if you change the local file after it has been uploaded?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Drew

Hippogreen,
I chose not to follow your Item 4, ie, I am ripping new ALAC tracks directly over the lower bitrate tracks in my existing Library. I just did not want all the extra labor involved in recreating playlists when I reimport, and I did not want to lose the metadata of playcounts, date original imported to library, etc.
If you do as I am doing and want the new ALAC track to directly replace the existing ones in your Library, your Item 1 is relevant:
1) If I have heavily corrected the metadata of a track and it is substantially different from the info provided by iTunes (when I re-rip the CD into ALAC format), how will iTunes know that it is a duplicate? I assume I will have to manually de-duplicate in such a situation. I am thinking of uploaded rather than matched tracks.
Like you, I had heavily corrected and personalized metadata, including my preferred capitalizations (often very different from Gracenote and the automated data from iTunes!), track performers, etc. I wanted to preserve all of that, but if your tracks' metadata differs from that which is automatically supplied when you insert a CD, then iTunes will not offer to replace the existing tracks. The solution for me was an AppleScript I found at the fantastic website Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes (dougscripts.com). Get the script "Copy Track Info to CD Tracks v1.3". The URL is:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackinfotocdtracks
This script copies all of your personailzed metadata to the CD tracks so that your own metadata is preserved while iTunes recognizes that the CD is already in your library and replaces the tracks. You can read the complete instructions at dougscripts.com and in the included documentation. It has been a lifesaver, and is truly the only way I have been able to move forward quickly re-ripping my CDs into ALAC.
Note also that when iTunes "replaces" the existing tracks with the new ALAC versions, it does not actually delete the original files. They remain in the same folder where originally stored, but they just become unlinked from the iTunes Library entries. The new files are linked to the iTunes entries, but you are not in danger of losing your original files. You have to go in and delete them manually if you want, or keep them.

HT5085 iTunes Match not upload songs.

iTunes Match not upload songs.
Done "Step 1: Gathering information about your iTunes library" and freeze.
Please advise how to solve this problem.

you are not alone
iTunes Match doesn't upload my songs?
Match process stalling out at end

How can I force iTunes Match to upload a "Duplicate" to the iCloud?

I have one album where the first track was uploaded, and the other eleven tracks are all tagged as "Duplicates." These tracks were not uploaded to the iCloud. How can I force iTunes Match to upload these eleven tracks erroneously tagged as Duplicates?

I'm adding my 2¢ because I just "discovered" iTunes Match yesterday and decided to subscribe thinking there was no downside (doh!).
Well, firstly, there's the enormous downside of Apple's structure not being able to keep up with (what they should have known would be) enormous interest... my iTunes has been matching for >20-hours and has yet to reach half-way up my library. BTW: I thought I read the iTunes Match info fairly thoroughly prior to subscribing and did not see anything about it being for songs vrs full library.
And secondly, and even more important to me, is that Apple's method of determining duplicate songs is not robust enough, especially for classical music and audio books (e.g., LoTR). I have >12000 "songs" in my library, and Match has determined a boatload are duplicates. They are not of course and even if Apple's duplicate-determining algorithm just looked at disc & track numbers it would "know" that. Anyway, there's a fairly good chance I will not have one complete album upload/match out of >500 albums. That's nae Scottish, in anybody's book.
Gotta say, using Garage Band to individually alter >2000 "songs" on the off-chance that may assist Apple's duplicate algorithm to be correct is not gonna happen. If, after the matching/uploading is complete, I still have >even 100-not-duplicate-songs listed as duplicates, I'm getting my $29.95 subscription back.
... and C: does anybody know why Apple's Lion spell check doesn't work on Apple's discussion forums???

I have a solution (albiet time consuming) to iTunes match step 3 crashing

So I've been a iTunes Match subscriber for about 6 months. At first it took me a few goes of it to get it down to about only 350 songs needing to be uploaded in Step 3.... Then the REAL frustration began.... From that point forward no matter what I tried I could NEVER get past Step 3. As soon as Step 2 finished and step 3 began, iTunes would crash. So for the past 5 months I have been unable to get those 350 songs uploaded. It wouldn't even do just one then crash. I was frustrated but after looking I could do without having access too those 350 songs at all times. But then there WAS a song that I HAD to have access too and the frustration began again. I tried EVERYTHING I could find on the internet. Uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, turning Match off then on, deleting errored files (I only had 4). Playing with router settings, everything. I noticed a lot of people wondering about having music on external hard drives even which mine is. (I will say from experience if your using a USB hub to connect your external hard drives, try connecting them directly into your computers USB port to speed things up a bit). Then I started reading about people having success converting one troublesome song or two to ACC, deleting the old version, then "manually" right clicking on them and clicking "add to iCloud" My issue was that this option was NEVER available to me when I right clicked the songs in iTunes! Plus some of the 350 songs were already in ACC format. Tonight, after playing around I've found a round about way (and time consuming if your doing this for 350 songs like me, feel bad to those who have THOUSANDS) to finally get these songs to upload to iTunes Match. Here is what I did, and I REALLY hope this can help someone else.
#1. When you first open iTunes, you notice in the top/middle info window that iTunes attempts to connect to the iTunes store, AND iTunes match tries to do its thing as well. AS SOON AS YOU OPEN ITUNES, click the small little X next to the progress indicator inside that info window until ALL acivities have stopped.
#2. Make sure you have the "iCloud Status" sort turned on
#3. Sort your song list in iTunes by the iCloud Status Look down the list until you get to where all of your "waiting" songs are at
#4. Select a small managable group (10 worked best for me, more than that would sometimes cause errors and I would have to redo them)
#5. Right click on the selected group and then select "convert to ACC"
#6 DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING ELSE AFTER 'convert to ACC"
#7 Once this completes you will hear the normal "ding" that iTunes is finished
#8. The original files will still be selected with the new ACC versions below each one, not selected. Hit your delete key.(You only want to keep the newly converted ACC files) Also, EVEN IF A FILE WAS PREVIOUSLY ACC, STILL SELECT IT FOR THIS CONVERT TO ACC PROCESS!!!!! If itunes asks if you want to delete these and move to the recycle bin, do so, as you now have another copy that seems to play well with iTunes.
#9 Now you have the 10 recently converted to ACC songs... Select those ten, right click on them then the "Add to iCloud" option (which for me was the first time I had ever gotten to see it at all)
#10 iTunes Match should now begin the process of trying to match JUST THOSE SELECTED songs, then upload whatever is needed. Using this system, I HAVE YET to run across iTunes or iTunes match, hanging up, or crashing all together.
I know this is a bit time consuming, and you COULD do this just for the songs you REALLY wanted to make sure were in the Cloud if you wish. My thought was if I'm going to do it, I might as well do them all.
I REALLY hope this will help someone as I have read so many forum posts, websites, ect, with people just as frustrated as me. And it even made it more frustrating as I had seen new "solutions" posted online yet said solutions still wouldn't work for me. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment and I'll try to answer and help!

So I've been a iTunes Match subscriber for about 6 months. At first it took me a few goes of it to get it down to about only 350 songs needing to be uploaded in Step 3.... Then the REAL frustration began.... From that point forward no matter what I tried I could NEVER get past Step 3. As soon as Step 2 finished and step 3 began, iTunes would crash. So for the past 5 months I have been unable to get those 350 songs uploaded. It wouldn't even do just one then crash. I was frustrated but after looking I could do without having access too those 350 songs at all times. But then there WAS a song that I HAD to have access too and the frustration began again. I tried EVERYTHING I could find on the internet. Uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, turning Match off then on, deleting errored files (I only had 4). Playing with router settings, everything. I noticed a lot of people wondering about having music on external hard drives even which mine is. (I will say from experience if your using a USB hub to connect your external hard drives, try connecting them directly into your computers USB port to speed things up a bit). Then I started reading about people having success converting one troublesome song or two to ACC, deleting the old version, then "manually" right clicking on them and clicking "add to iCloud" My issue was that this option was NEVER available to me when I right clicked the songs in iTunes! Plus some of the 350 songs were already in ACC format. Tonight, after playing around I've found a round about way (and time consuming if your doing this for 350 songs like me, feel bad to those who have THOUSANDS) to finally get these songs to upload to iTunes Match. Here is what I did, and I REALLY hope this can help someone else.
#1. When you first open iTunes, you notice in the top/middle info window that iTunes attempts to connect to the iTunes store, AND iTunes match tries to do its thing as well. AS SOON AS YOU OPEN ITUNES, click the small little X next to the progress indicator inside that info window until ALL acivities have stopped.
#2. Make sure you have the "iCloud Status" sort turned on
#3. Sort your song list in iTunes by the iCloud Status Look down the list until you get to where all of your "waiting" songs are at
#4. Select a small managable group (10 worked best for me, more than that would sometimes cause errors and I would have to redo them)
#5. Right click on the selected group and then select "convert to ACC"
#6 DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING ELSE AFTER 'convert to ACC"
#7 Once this completes you will hear the normal "ding" that iTunes is finished
#8. The original files will still be selected with the new ACC versions below each one, not selected. Hit your delete key.(You only want to keep the newly converted ACC files) Also, EVEN IF A FILE WAS PREVIOUSLY ACC, STILL SELECT IT FOR THIS CONVERT TO ACC PROCESS!!!!! If itunes asks if you want to delete these and move to the recycle bin, do so, as you now have another copy that seems to play well with iTunes.
#9 Now you have the 10 recently converted to ACC songs... Select those ten, right click on them then the "Add to iCloud" option (which for me was the first time I had ever gotten to see it at all)
#10 iTunes Match should now begin the process of trying to match JUST THOSE SELECTED songs, then upload whatever is needed. Using this system, I HAVE YET to run across iTunes or iTunes match, hanging up, or crashing all together.
I know this is a bit time consuming, and you COULD do this just for the songs you REALLY wanted to make sure were in the Cloud if you wish. My thought was if I'm going to do it, I might as well do them all.
I REALLY hope this will help someone as I have read so many forum posts, websites, ect, with people just as frustrated as me. And it even made it more frustrating as I had seen new "solutions" posted online yet said solutions still wouldn't work for me. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment and I'll try to answer and help!

ITunes Match Step 3 Issues - Resolved

This was posted in another thread but I wanted to document it here.
I am in Canada using Rogers and my internet provider. My iTunes match process runs perfectly until step 3, where iTunes starts uploading missing files and artwork.
This process only ever got 1-2 songs uploaded then the connection would be broken. I followed all the other workarounds including looking through my collection for long, imporperly coded and glitchy cuts and then deleteing them to no avail. I would ahve to keep starting the process over and over to get 2 songs at a time uploaded. I was really starting to worry about the disk I have my files on thrashing about all day crashing on me.
Turns out its ROGERS (go figure) that is the problem.
On a lark (and becuase of a previous post on this regarding Verizon in the US) I hooked my iPhone (Bell) up to my computer and disconnected it from my Rogers internet connection. Once the tether was in place uploads started right up and are contnuing with no isses whatsoever (now at 63 and counting). THANK GOD I have a 6GB plan fom Bell. It's going to turf my data allotment for the month, but at least I can get Match working. I should send Rogers the bill for my overages.
I will be calling Rogers later today to follow up. I have included a screen capture of the ports in question (made with a freware utility called CurrPorts), the connections to the amazonaws.com servers are dropped by Rogers in some kind of traffic shaping effort.
I will report back here with any result I have from them on why they are doing this (tho I doubt the guys we get on the phone have a clue about such things. They are taken on at a much higher, much more evil level )

Here is the screen capture.The ports can run from the low 50's to mid 60's and it's the connections to the amazonaws.com cloud servers that are getting terminated by Rogers.

ITunes Match - Step 2 creates Unresponsive iTunes

I have read multiple threads about this issue, but I am hoping someone can give me the newest solution or work-around to fix my problem.
I am trying to upload my iTunes library (9020 songs) to iTunes Match. When it gets to Step Two, it freezes around 8,684 songs of 8708 that are found to be matched. I continue to let the beachball spin, assuming it was still scanning, even if the application was unresponsive, but, it never moves to Step 3.
I have tried every suggestion seen in previous posts. I have started with updating the Genius Match. I have disabled/reenabled the internet connection. Starting in Safe Mode. Nothing gets me past Step 2. I have also reviewed all the potential 'questionable' songs (audiobooks, mpeg files, low quality, etc) and tried to remove and restarting the Match process. Same results.
I have to Force Quit iTunes, restart, immediately turn off iTunes Match (because it will start scanning as it launches and subsequently freeze again) and then Turn On iTunes Match again. But, again, it locks up so close to the end of Step 2.
Does anyone have a way to fix this problem?
Thank you!
KC3Dogs

How long are you waiting between force quits? Step 2 can take several days to complete. The matching of my library with 22000 songs took more than two weeks. Let the match run over night without interrupting. It will depend on how busy the iTunes Store is. When everybody has just updated iTunes, it is not a good time to start matching a new library.
You seem to have tried really all things that can help to ensure that the match is successful. You have not mentioned your Energy Saver settings. To prevent timeouts, set the Energy Saver so, that the mac will not fall asleep during the matching.

Force iTunes Match to Upload/Match Duplicates?

Is there a way to get iTunes Match to match/upload a track listed with the icloud status duplicate? Say you have an album of an artist and then a greatest hits from them too and you would not like a track to be missing when trying to play that album on another computer or device. Sometimes this doesn't happen and it uploads/matches anyways. It's nice that it find duplicates and but it would be nice to say, "hey, I want it to be there." I've tried to add it again and that rarely works.

Hi Bob,
I have posted a workaround for forcing uploads, and I did address the "Duplicate" message in my post. Please take a look at it and let me know if it answers your questions or gives you a starting point. I've been testing different things with Match and it sure has its quirks. In my experience, I would need to make a change to the metadata (often just changing the album to something slightly different) to get around the endless "Waiting" stage.
Here's my workaround to allow a 'forced upload': https://discussions.apple.com/message/20401295#20401295
Hope it helps!
Nick

WORKAROUND - Found a Way to Force iTunes Match to UPLOAD

I wanted to let everyone know that after months of living with incorrect matches (mainly The Beatles in Mono), I've finally found a semi-easy workaround to force uploads. I haven't found this anywhere else, but if someone else has documented it, I apologize. I posted this onto one of the many threads regarding the issue quite some time ago (~ 6 months), but I wanted to make sure it was seen by as many as possible. (Sorry for the long post—skip anything you're not interested in! )
MY THEORY
The basis of this was noticing that there seemed to be discrete steps to the matching process (when adding via already-ripped FILES and not CD at least):
You add the files to iTunes
You can force a scan by right-clicking and selecting "Add to iCloud"
iTunes scans the new files
iTunes reports that it is sending the file data to Apple
iTunes waits for a "Matched" or "No Match" response from Apple
If the response is "No Match," then iTunes triggers the upload
After observing this for some time, I concluded that if (edited) files could be imported that would give a definite "No Match" result, there may be time in-between steps 4 and 6 to replace the files with the real ones (which had been triggering a false match in the past). To my delight, this worked. Here's what I did:
STEP-BY-STEP:
Deleted existing files from iTunes/iCloud, but kept the files on the computer. I then moved these to a different folder.
Took existing files and converted them with dBpoweramp. This will cost money but is well worth it if you are looking for a way to force an upload to iTunes Match. I converted them using the same AAC settings (this doesn't matter), but added the "reverse" DSP, which reverses the audio. This has been enough to foil iTunes into not matching the track, while ensuring that each file will contain unique audio data. This will be quick and painless, at least for the first time. I did it this way because it will retain all of the tags AND length of the file. iCloud will get the file length from this step, and will not change it afterward...so you probably want to use files of the same length as the real ones.
Now I have a copy of the files with audio gibberish but still having correct metadata, etc. I then put these files in my "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder.
Right-clicked on these files and selected "Add to iCloud." If you use "Sort Album" like I do, you can change it before this step and it will upload into iCloud with the correct sort information. If done afterward, it doesn't usually sort correctly on my iPhone.
After iTunes displayed the message "Sending information to Apple" (don't remember the exact message), I pasted the original (correct) files and replaced my audio gibberish files. It is important to note that the filenames must be the same, e.g. "01 Come Together.m4a" if a single-disc, or "1-01 Back in the USSR.m4a" if multidisc. iTunes will also truncate the file name at 36 characters (I believe) so this will all need to be done beforehand. I use various MP3tag actions that I'd be happy to share if anyone wants them. If you are starting with a file that has already existed in your iTunes library, this will already be done (provided iTunes is managing the library).
When Apple returns a "No Match" signal back to iTunes, it then begins to upload the files which I have just pasted.
This has worked for me 100% if doing the upload one time. In some rare cases, I may decide to EQ a file and then re-upload, or otherwise edit the file. Or perhaps I have more than one version (original/remastered, or original mix/remix) that I want to coexist in my library. In those cases, I have again utilized the dBpoweramp "VST Plug-in" DSP, where I use something like Freq Show to garble the audio. It is necessary for the garbled audio to be unique each time for this to work.
A FEW THINGS I HAVE LEARNED
If you delete a file and wish to re-upload it, you can use the same files from step 2 (provided you still have them) and iTunes will recognize them as the files previously uploaded. I am not sure how long this works, but your uploaded music remains in iCloud, though invisible, for some time — even if you selected "Delete from iCloud."
iTunes/iCloud evidently does use metadata (at least Album) to help determine if you've already uploaded a song within the same album. I ran into this when trying to test an EQ/level change I had made, and even though the audio content was completely different, iTunes would not upload or would flag as duplicate. If I altered the Album field in any way it would proceed. Other tags can be kept the same.
If you do have mono content, it is trivial to use the dBpoweramp "Channel Mapper" DSP to remove one channel during the conversion from lossless to AAC. The nice thing is, I encode with Nero AAC quality 0.65 (~250 kbps VBR) and this will reduce the file size significantly. There is no real advantage to keeping both channels, since you're doing a lossy conversion anyway. Sometimes the encoders (even very good ones) don't see the file as being mono, due to different artifacts and noise in the left and right channels. Or perhaps the mono tape was transfered with a stereo tape deck, etc. Try it yourself and see if it makes a difference. Also, iTunes will report the file as "mono" when you do "Get Info." I keep the FLAC disc image/tracks in stereo so it will exactly match the CD, but only encode one channel to lossy. If you know the source is mono for sure then there is no possible advantage to keeping both channels of a lossy conversion. (If you're not sure if the source is mono, use your favorite DAW, e.g. Audacity, to invert the phase of one channel before combining left and right. Once you do that, if all that is left is very low-level noise or other artifacts, then you know it is safe to encode as mono.)
IF YOU CARE ABOUT MASTERING
It is also worth noting that if you care about what mastering you have in your iTunes library, there is no other way I know of to guarantee you have the correct version in your iCloud library except to upload it. I found this out the hard way: I had a retail CD version of Paul McCartney's "RAM" album that was recently remastered. I put the CD in, added to my library, and iTunes Match quickly returned with "Matched" for all tracks. Some time later I was listening with headphones and noticed that some tracks had hardly any hiss at all, whereas others had a good amount of it. Since "RAM" is a rather hissy album, I investigated it against the CD and finally found that many of the tracks were being matched to other versions of the song (either from the earlier CD version or compilations with different mastering). So most of the tracks were hit with heavy noise reduction for the iCloud version. I had to follow this upload procedure to be sure that I got the right version. Purchasing the item(s) from the iTunes store would work also, but I had already paid $100 for the deluxe box set. This same problem occured with the Bob Dylan mono box. I was surprised to find that iTunes actually matched my mono versions to mono versions, and continued listening until one day the stereo version played on a certain track instead of the mono. So, even if the iTunes store has the mix/mastering that you are wanting to add to iCloud, the only sure way is to upload it (or purchase it from iTunes in the first place.) If given the choice going forward I would choose the latter, since I am not hung up on physical media and cannot tell a 256K iTunes store encode apart from a FLAC file in a double blind test (almost nobody can).
This has been bothering me for months. I'm really happy to be able to play my correct files on all my devices! For those of us who have unique versions or masterings of albums we prefer, this should be a workaround until Apple decides to give us a "force upload" option. I have tested this on Windows 7 primarily. Should work on any OS.
Hope everyone finds this useful!
Nick

I wanted to first thank you for this, as this is the only workaround literature that seems to be floating around out there. With that said, I know it is a big ask, but is there any way that you could create a video showing step by step how to do what you do? I have several tracks that are stuck in waiting mode, and if left in itunes, will never upload or match...they only cause the upload process to hang up and restart. I've tried leaving it for days...I've tried converting the files, signing in and out of itunes (and itunes match), updating itunes match, and I tried your technique...unfortunately to no avail. Perhaps I didn't do your technique correctly. I used audacity to reverse the audio.
ANY help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!
Thanks

Itunes Match wont upload new songs... keeps refreshing...Help!

On my mac, I open Itunes, and I add a new song, then my itunes match starts the process of uploading. it will get half way through step two then stop and restart and it will continue doing this until, I get frustrated enough to just delete it.
Now, I have already have most of my library on Itunes match but its only recently started happening when I add new songs.
add these songs are coming off a cd! any ideas? the troubleshooting doesnt help!
Thanks In advance!

i am having the exact same issue - had itunes match since day one without problems and now nothing else will upload

ITunes Match step 3 freezing!!!

Every time I get to the third step of iTunes match it freezes on the first upload. It does not give me any error messages but simply says waiting. What is wrong? I have waited for hours and nothing has happened.

Try to exit iTunes and restart, you might have lost connection to the service without noticing.

ITunes Match Step 3 Stuck on Last Song

i just signed up for iTunes Match and already experienced a bug ...
Going trough installation I am stuck in Step 2 on the last song...
I read on other forums that people restarted computers, stopped-restarted the installation yet after having tried even this I found no success...
I saw other people suggesting you might wanna convert your files into other format as maybe itunes does not reckognize certain format but that was a pretty long post and Im wondering if Itunes has figured out a ... more smooth way ! !
im not a tech expert and neither have time to bang my head to much around this issue...
I was hoping to have a easy installation but Itunes Match seems to actually have this problem reocurring in many users... (on step 3 too)...
Any good alternative solution ???

Hey everyone...I've been futzing with iTunes Match since the beta was released (I'm a developer) and every time I started iTunes Match it would lockup all my applications usually at Step 1 but sometimes at Step 2 (I could move between them but everyone was beachballing). I've tried for months to get iTunes Match working without result. I would close every app to give it maximum CPU and memory, repair permisions and every other Snake Oil remedy I could think of, without luck. Then today I had a breakthrough. Here's what I did and hopefully it helps someone else:
1. Enable iTunes Match, let it run and lockup/stall/freeze at least once. Restart iTunes and go to iTunes Match in the left bar and click the "stop" button.
2. Go back to your music library, right click on the column names at the top and add "iCloud Download" and "iCloud Status". You should see all your tracks as "Waiting...".
3. Select a group of tracks (I do about 500 at a time), right click and chose "Add to iCloud"
4. iTunes will whirl for a bit and with a bit of luck you'll see it actually processing and uploading/matching music.
5. Repeat this for the rest of your library (increasing the number of tracks you selected if you're brave) and in no time you should be up and running on iCloud.
It's a bummer that the technology isn't better but at least I found a way to get it going.

ITunes Match Step 3 doesn't load, Windows Closes iTunes. Solution?

Since October 27, 2013 have not been able to get all 3 steps of the iTunes Match to complete. Steps 1 & 2 load correctly and a green check mark appears for each. However, when things move to Step 3 an error message immediately appears that indicates "iTunes has stopped working", and Windows closes iTunes.
My laptop is running Window 7. Apple Tech Support had me uninstall all components of iTunes and then (re)load the latest version on my laptop. All music in my iTunes library has always played correctly on my iPod Classic. (Note: the iPod Classic has not been synced sinced the problems with the iTunes Match load surfaced as I am fearful of corrupting what's there. Which also means all recent iTunes store purchases cannot be played on the iPod classic until it sync'd.) Accessing the iTunes music library on the iPod Touch shows that some tracks are greyed out and not available which seems consistent with the failure of Step 3 to load. Need help. Thanks.

Hi,
Try holding shift key whilst turning off match. This will clear genius / match cache. Close iTunes then reopen. Turn on match, you will be asked to add this computer, do so and let process complete.
You should also add iCloud status column to song view - menu > view > view options and tick box. This will tell you what has been matched, uploaded, purchased, duplicate or inelligible. It will show tracks that have not been processed as "waiting". If you have any such tracks, one or more may be preventing completion. You may need to remove such tracks and gradually readd until match processes them. This may help identify problem tracks.
Jim

Itunes Match Wont Upload 2000 Songs

I just got itunes match,
I let it do its thing for a few hours and it started to upload the music.
Then my interent crashed because the bell lines in my aera suck some times. and now I'm trying to get it to work again and it just stays at the point after
step 1 Sending to apple.
Now, I went out of the house and I went and did some shoping and I got this error when I got back
Itunes says "We could not complete your itunes Store Request. An unkown error occurred (4002). Please try later
Well is this not great or what?
I think the servers are just over taken by the latest wwdc confrence but still, its 2012 could apple not run wwdc and itunes match at the same time?

Hi,
This is a problem with genius.
Turn off iTunes match. This will delete genius results. Sign out /then back into iTunes store.
Turn genius back on then after genius has been updated, update iTunes matched. You will be asked to add the computer again.
Trust this works.
Jim

Itunes match not uploading any songs just stuck on "uploading 1 of 1432" for teh last two days , any help ??

I purchased Itune match it matched about 9432 songs and the remaining 1432 it did not got to step 3 of uploading and its been 3 days just keeps saying uploading 1 of 1432 . i have restarted itunes , tried on different ISPs etc no luck what gives , on top of that on my iphone since i turned on match my play lists dont show up . when i try to synch with match off still my play lists do not show up ?

Don't know what fantasy planet bigAl_25 lives on. It does not work consistently for anyone that has a substantial library period. If your lucky, you get 6 songs before it freezes up. Know countless people that have it. Don't know a single person that it works for consistently (on an Iphone) who has a substantial library. I have to run with my Nano because it doesn't work. I have had Apple products since 1984, I know how to trouble shoot issues. There is no current solution. Like other posters, I have tried every single possible fix, including all of those recommended here. It's just not ready for prime time. Until it is, it will continue to be be hit and miss, with the only temporary fixes being to go back to menu, select different mix, or playlist. If that doesn't work, quit app. If that doesn't work, restart the phone. One of these will probably solve your problem, but again only temporarily for about 6 songs, and the cycle repeats itself. You do get a little bit better results over WiFi and if you download all the songs to the iphone before you roll the playlist, but again inconsistent at best. Best idea, worst implementation. I'm sure Apple will eventually fix it. Until then it is hit and miss. I don't care about the $25 (but won't renew if not working when my year is up), just want it to work. GET WITH IT APPLE. Match is a home run, devote more resources to getting the bugs out.

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