HT204406 in iTunes Match can I protect music from being accidentally deleted or playlists changed on my mobile devices?

My entire music catalogue is saved from my desktop in iTunes Match. How can I prevent my children from deleting or editing playlists and songs on my iPhone or iPods? Is there a way to lock the devices from making changes and only allow them to listen?

If you have iTunes Match, and your music is in your Match library, you can access it from iCloud on all your devices, provided they are signed into your iTunes Match account. Make sure you keep a backup of your music somewhere though as the match process isnt' perfect and you may find that some of your iTunes Match music isn't exactly the same as the original (see https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4112).
The best way to back up your photos is to import them to your computer as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083. If you are out of room on your Mac, get an inexpensive external drive to save your photos on.

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HT204406 my iTunes match can not pass the step 2, it keeps repeat again and again. Pls advise. Thank you.

my iTunes Match can not pass the step 2, it keeps repeat again and again. Pls advise. Thank you.

Very strange. Two items to try:
a. Enable iCloud Status and iCloud Download fields in Song view, sort on status and look for any 'waiting' or 'error';
b. If (a) looks good, establish a new user account, create an empty library and enable iTunes Match, confirm that this provides access to all Songs and is working well.
These are seeking to ensure both no bad Songs or local Library corruption - both are relatively quick.

HT204406 my itunes match has frozen 2 songs from the end of matching my music. what do i do to fix this?

I have subscribed to itunes match and it checked all of my songs but has frozed 2 somge from the end of step 2 and won't move on to the next step. I don't know how to resolve this as I have tried stopping and starting it but it seems to freeze in the same place every time.

*When I try to drag over the music, it won't let me. That's what I meant to say.

If I subscribe to match, can I remove music from my hard drive and still listen to it?

I'm interested in Match, but want to know if the music has to be on my computer to access it on my iPod/iPhone? In other words, once I sync my library (over 100,000 songs) can I remove them from my hard drive (of course having them backed up on my own) and still access them?

First off, if you have a library with over 25,000 songs in it, you will not be able to even sign up for iTunes Match. When you try, you will get a message that you are not eligible.
No, you cannot selectively choose which songs go to iCloud to get around this 25k limit, iTunes Match wants all or nothing.
The way around this is to set up multiple iTunes libraries, each with fewer than 25,000 songs in it. While this is inconvenient on your computer, if you send them to the iCloud this way and they will all be available on your iDevices.
Apart from that issue, the answer to your question is "Yes."
However, when you play a song, it downloads to your device or computer while it is playing and will stay there until it is removed again. iTunes Match does not stream songs, it downloads them and plays them, although songs will start playing before they have been completely downloaded.

ITunes Match will sync my music from all the stores?

Hey! I want to get iTunes Match, but I still have doubts about how it works. I have songs that are not available on the USA store only on the France store (for example), will iTunes Match sync the song even if it is not available on my store? and will give me the matched song? Or it all depends on the country where the account was created? Thanks.

No, iTunes Match does not match your library across country stores. It only matches music to your "store of record." If a song cannot be matched it will be uploaded.

How can I protect files from being uploaded to the internet/web-based email or being written to a disc/flash drive?

I work for a company that want to update itself to this century. I got all our PC upgraded to Windows 7 and networked into a homegroup. We want to use a web-based appointment scheduler but this means giving our users web access. The main
concern is our .mdb files. We have anti-virus/anti-spyware to protect us from infiltration but we want to safeguard against personnel selling our client list; At least make it more difficult, just a precautionary measure. Do I need additional software
or is it something that I can do in Windows setting? Or do I need a file encryption service that works in conjunction with Windows Access? Sorry for my ignorance and thanks in advance.

There is technology known as RMS which you could set series of policies like only members in the company could access certain documents and if someone copy them and attempt to run them in another PC or outside company, it won't work. Take a look at:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rms/archive/2013/08/29/the-new-microsoft-rms-is-live-in-preview.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277361.aspx

Is there a way to lock music files from being accidentally deleted on ios 5.0?

With the new ios5 you can delete music files (albums, songs, artists) directly from the phone, is there a way to lock this to avoid accidental deleting?

This time I disagree, you can't re-download music recorded in iTunes from a CD unless you buy more capacity in the cloud. Besides you can't trust the iPhone to a little child because of the risk of having your favorite music deleted in an instant. A simple lock button would solve this big issue. How can I suggest Apple to implement it?

Can you transfer music from one app to the same app on a different device?

I have an app called HCO playlist and it lets you download the current playlist and as the playlist changes you cant redownload the previous playlist but you keep the songs you downloaded and on my iPod 4th gen. I was wodering if there was anyway if i could transfer the songs from the app on my iPod to the same app on my iPad mini.

Only if that app allows that option. There is nothing natively on the iPod to do that.

HT4914 My wife and I have separate iTunes accounts can we share music through iTunes Match ?

My wife and I have separate iTunes accounts can we share music with iTunes Match?

SHARING iTunes MUSIC
http://macmost.com/five-ways-to-share-music-in-itunes.html

Can I have iTunes Match recognize that the Music is on my Hard Drive?

My PC (Windows 8.1) computer hard drive crashed. My old computer was using an iTunes media file on an external hard drive so I still have that, but I also subscribe to iTunes Match. After replacing my old internal hard drive, I went to set up iTunes, and I changed the iTunes media folder location so it would use the one on my external hard drive. However, once I turned on iTunes Match, all of the music still shows up as being in the Cloud. I can't figure out how to have it recognize that my music is already on that external hard drive. It just wants me to download everything from the Cloud. I have tons of music, and it would take days to download everything. Is there a way to associate it with my previous library on the external hard drive?

CHRISRMOR: With iTunes match, as long as you uploaded all of your songs to begin with, the music should be there when you open a new iTunes on your new hard drive. You will just have to download it all from the cloud. If you use iTunes match on other devices, you can download any or all of your songs from the cloud too. So to answer your question, yes, you are correct. When you download iTunes onto your new hard drive, authorize the computer and turn on iTunes Match and update it, then all of your songs should be there. There is a symbol of a cloud with an arrow pointing downward that will show that it is in the cloud. If you right-click on that symbol you can download an individual song. Or if you select all or a group of songs, you can download all of them with a right-click.

I have DRM protected music from an old iTunes account that will not upload to Match?

I have DRM protected music from an old iTunes account that will not upload to Match?

Your computer needs to be authorized with the "old" Apple ID. Pull done Store > Authorize... And type the credentials when prompted.

If i subscribe to itunes match can I use this to transfer my music to a new laptop

if i subscribe to itunes match can I use this to transfer my music to a new laptop

Don't.
1) Match would be horribly slow unless you have a tiny library.
2) Match won't transfer all file formats. I am pretty sure it is just music.
3) Match may degrade your music quality if you use high quality file formats.
Why not simply copy the whole iTunes folder to the other computer using an external drive, then start iTunes on the other computer while holding down the option/alt key and select the copied folder? This will copy the entire library intact.

HT4914 If I subscribe to iTunes Match, can I download onto my new iPhone 6, just my music playlists and not my entire library?

If I subscribe to iTunes Match, can I download onto my new iPhone 6, just my music playlists and not my entire library? I have over 100 playlists and even more music not in playlists and I don't want to download all of it to my phone.
Thanks

First read this: FAQ: Why iTunes Match Can Not Be Used as a Backup
So, before you sell your Mac make sure all your personal data is backed up to an external HDD then put that HDD in a safe place. When you return you will be able to use it to restore your data to the new Mac.
Before you sell your computer you must restore the original version OS X that was installed on it when you bought it. See this Apple KB article for how to prepare your Mac for sale: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5189.

HT4914 I often record songs at a particular tempo, iTunes Match will then match it and send it back to me at the original tempo, is there anyway I can stop some songs from being matched. At the moment I have turned match off. But I would like to sync play

I often record songs at a particular tempo, iTunes Match will then match it and send it back to me at the original tempo, is there anyway I can stop some songs from being matched. At the moment I have turned match off. But I would like to sync playlists.

How old was this backup? It sounds like it was at least several weeks old.
You can look directly in the TM backup for the music.
1. Connect to the external HDD the backup is kept on.
2. Open a Finder window and select the backup drive in the left hand panel. Double click into the folders until you see a list of folders with dates.
These are the incremental backups. You can start at the top or the bottom of the list but I suggest you double Latest/<HDD Name>/Users/<Account Name>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music. From this location you can start looking for the "missing" music. When/if you find it you can simply drag-n-drop to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music on the internal HDD.
If the music is actually not in the backups (for whatever reason) then you've got a problem.
You can download the uploaded files from the cloud by deleting the affected tracks from the iTunes library (but not the cloud!), highlighting multiple tracks at once, right-clicking and choosing "download."

ITunes Match for the iMac - Music Files on an iPod?

I subscribe to iTunes Match and have an iPod Classic 160GB. Is it possible to use iTunes Match for my entire music library on my iMac & iPhone BUT put the actual song files on my iPod Classic? The problem is my music library is large, won't fit on my iMac Flash hard drive and iTunes Match is perfect. But I can't figure out how to get those songs onto my iPod Classic because iTunes Match is enabled on iTunes.
I would like to keep my iTunes library on the iMac using Match and have the physical songs be on the iPod Classic.
I tested this by putting 1 album on the iMac hd. Then syncing the iPod. Then deleting it from iTunes (the cloud icon came back so Match is doing it's thing and I deleted the physical song files). Sync'd again but this time I checked Manually Manage Music & Videos in the iTunes iPod Settings window before hand, thinking that would tell iTunes to not worry that the 1 Who album wasn't physically on my h/d anymore. But it didn't work. It removed the that album from the iPod Classic.
Is this possible and I don't have the correct settings in iTunes or on the iPod? Or is this a limitation of using iTunes Match?

Hey thanks, Jim... Actually I do have a back up of my entire library on an external drive. Is the process just dragging the songs and albums from the Finder (from the external drive backup) onto the iPod when I plug it in to iTunes and they copy over? Is it possible to create new or update existing Playlists with this method? But is key is to never sync the iPod with iTunes or do I need to check Manually Manage Music & Videos?
Or am I looking at this completely wrong. lol

HT204406 in iTunes Match can I protect music from being accidentally deleted or playlists changed on my mobile devices?

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