HT4914 Help iTunes Match Question

After reading about this and I'm new, I was wondering would I be able to use songs from my playlists such as Spotify, Pandora, or other like lists? I enjoy gospel music and I have many CDs as well as I utilize the mentioned sites. If I had them all in one location this would be wonderful. I have made different playlists for my family members because we all listen to different genres of music. Secondly would it be wise if I chose this route iTunes Match to merge everyones music under my iCloud account or does everyone need separate accounts (with the exception of my 13 year old...lol)? Thanks!
P.S. I am so new at this posting so please forgive me if I am not posting this correctly.

You can use one account to accomodate all the songs in your library for iTunes Match as long as it will not exceed the limitation for uploading songs. You can include songs from third party sources or from CDs to be uploaded into your iTunes Match library. I recommend checking the link below for more information:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/

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HT4914 iTunes Match Question

Hello I made a mix with several songs. Will this mix be able to be uploaded in with iTunes Match?

Is your mix in the form of a single continuous MP3? If so, add it to your library, and you will be good to go. Obviously it will not match anything in the store, so it will be uploaded by iTunes Match, subject to the normal limitations on uploads (can't be more than 200 MB, etc.)
As with anything in iTunes Match, make sure that you make a backup on local storage. Apple Legal clearly advises that Match is not to be considered a reliable backup: "You should back up all data and information on your computer or device and any peripherals prior to using iTunes Match. You expressly acknowledge and agree that all use of iTunes Match is at your sole risk. To the extent permitted by law, Apple shall have no liability with respect to your use of iTunes Match, including the inability to access matched or uploaded content."

HT4914 Ripping CDs and iTunes Match question

Once I rip a CD into iTunes and it is then uploaded to iTunes Match, can the CD be deleted from my hard drive? running out of room on the laptop...

Yes, but keep the CD on hand in case of a problem, since iTunes Match is not considered a reliable backup.
Here is the official information from Apple:
"iTunes Match is provided on an “AS IS” basis and may contain errors or inaccuracies that could cause failures, corruption or loss of data and/or information, including music, playlist, and play history, from your computer or device and from peripherals (including, without limitation, servers and other computers) connected thereto. You should back up all data and information on your computer or device and any peripherals prior to using iTunes Match."

HT4914 Itune Match question

I have music on my Ipod Touch that is not on my computer if I subscribe to Itunes Match will that music be put into the Cloud or not? I purchased a new computer and only my most recent purchases showed up in the Cloud. Our Home Sharing is also turned on.

You will need to have downloaded your music onto your iPad (or other device or computer) if you want to play it on that deivce whilst you don't have an internet connection - so whilst you are still connected, from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5637 :
Once your iTunes Match library has finished syncing to your device, you can browse by Genius Mixes, Playlists, Artists, Songs, Albums, Compilations, Composers, and Genres. When you find a Genius Mix, playlist, album, or artist you like, simply tap on the Genius Mix or song title to begin streaming that song or playlist. If you begin streaming a song from a playlist, iTunes Match will continue playing through the rest of your playlist after the initial song has finished. If you'd like to download the song or playlist to your device, simply tap the download button to the right of the song or at the bottom of the playlist.

ITunes match question (manual sync and iTunes library)

Hi all
Just noticed that iTunes match is now avaliable in Denmark, and therefore I have a few questions that I can't seem to find answers for elsewhere.
My situation is that I have all my music on a NAS (and on at USB backup drive). Some of the music is in 128 AAC and is 320 mp3.
On my macbook pro I have all of my music converted til 128 AAC so I can fit all of my music on my iPhone (10000 songs). All my music on my iPhone is manage manually through iTunes. I normally 1) add it to itunes, 2) transfer it to iphone and 3) remove the music again from my iTunes library. I mostly just have an empty iTunes library (since i play music from my iPhone and my Sonos system) and just use iTunes for ripping CDs and editing of tags.
Since my iPhone is running out of space, I thought it would be a good idea to have some of my music i iCloud (iTunes match). From what I've read it is not possible to have both music transfered manually from iTunes to my iPhone and at the same time accessing music from Itunes match? What I really would like is to have 20 GB on my iPhone with the rest avaliable through iTunes match (20 GB) for when I need it. Is this possible?
My second and most important question is about the itunes library. What happens if I connect to iTunes macth and afterwards remove all my music from my itunes library? As I just explained I prefer my itunes library to be empty unless i want to transfer music to my iPhone.
Hope you can help me with some answers?
Thánk You.

That info has not been released yet but to venture a guess, I doubt any extraneous info such as comments will be used.
Also, iTunes Match will not use your tags to identify songs. Some algorithm will analyze the audio file to match.

PLEASE HELP -- iTunes Match - multiple problems, desktop and iOS

I've been going round and around with this issue for the past couple days (yes, I've been dedicating that much time to it) and finally went to the Genius Bar today to get help and even they were stumped. Hoping someone here can shed some light on the situation. Next stop, express lane for support.
Broad Problem:
I paid for iTunes Match around 6 months ago and activated it on my desktop.     Since then, I've had nothing but problems across my desktop and 4 seperate iOS devices (3 iPhone 4's, and an iPad 3). The basic sympton on the desktop is that iTunes itself frequently freezes (Option-Command-Esc reveals "Application Not Responding") and requires a force quit.   As soon as I turn OFF iTunes Match, this symptom goes away. I can leave iTunes open for hours without any problems. As soon as I turn it back ON, then the problem comes back -- sometimes iTunes won't launch at all (crashes before bringing the UI up), and other times it's the same freeze that requires a force-quite. Quite frustrating.
On the iOS side of things, the situation isn't any better.   When I toggle on iTunes Match and then enable "Show All Music" in the Preferences of the iPhone, then I get any one of the two following scenarios:
A) The Music App simply won't load. It tries, goes to white, and crashes back to the home screen of my iPhone.
B) If I'm lucky, the Music app will launch and I can see my entire library in the cloud as intended. The problems start though when I go to actually download/play songs from the cloud. Typically, the songs will start playing but I will eventually get an error message that alerts me that there was "Problem Downloading Track". When I then go into the Download Que of the iTunes Store (again, still on the iPhone), it shows the entire list of songs that I had wanted to download and shows them at various stages of download completion -- even if they have actually completely played on the phone itself.   Sometimes they will time out and display the "problem downloading track/try again" status, and other times the progress bar sits at about 99% with a status of "Processing".
What's particularly strange about scenario B is that I've tried to download a variety of songs to different devices -- my wifes iPhone 4, my iPhone 4, an iPad, and a iPhone 4S that the person at the Genius Bar had me use as a tester.   When I tried the iPhone 4S at the genius bar, I was amazed at how fast it downloaded to the device. This had the genius bar guy wondering if it was a problem with my phone itself or with the iPhone 4 in particular.   Unfortunately he didn't have a spare iPhone 4 to test with so I had to go home and test with my wife's iPhone 4. Again, she had the same problem.   The status bar hangs at about 99% showing a status of "processing", even though I have completely listened to the track within the Music App. The same scenario happens on the iPad as well.
Okay, if you're with me so far: here's where things start to get REALLY strange....
On MY iPhone 4, when I run into problem A or B, the only fixable solution for me has been to go into Preferences and toggle OFF iTunes Match, completely shut down the phone, restart the phone, and then launch the Music App, at which point I can see the music that has loaded to my phone.    The kicker here is that even though I've turned iTunes Match OFF and completely powered down my phone, when I go into the Music app I can ALSO see my ENTIRE iTunes Match library, completely with cloud status icons.   It's as though I never turned off iTunes Match at all. In fact, I had to triple check my own preferences to verify that it was turned OFF, which it sure enough is.   I can even go and attempt to download songs, with various levels of success based on the problems above.
Now, on my WIFE's iPhone 4, when I run into problem A or B, I tried the same process in tandem with the phones side by side as I did the test -- turn iTunes Match OFF in Preferences, power down the phone, power up the phone, and launch the Music app.    However, on her phone, when this happens the Music App shows what is to be expected -- only the music that is on the phone itself.
Okay, there's a lot to digest here, but here's the synopsis: my phone and my wifes phones are behaving differently when displaying iTunes Match, with my phone appearing to completely disregard the status of the On/Off Toggle within Preferences-->Music, and my wifes phone behaving as it should, at least in terms of what it displays.   The download problems are present on each device and the iPad is also behaving like my wifes phone.
Given all of these inconsistencies and irregularities across devices and platforms -- MacBook Pro running Lion, separate iPhone 4's each running iOS 5.1.1, an iPad running iOS 5.1.1. and an iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1.1 - my suspicion is that:
A) I've got a corrupt iTunes library file residing in the cloud
or
B) iTunes Match is having a hard time reconciling my Apple ID across so many devices (possibly complicated by issue A)
The bottom line is that I have paid for iTunes Match and have never been able to use it successfully or with any predictability.
I'm wondering if anyone else has any symptoms that match any of this and/or have come across a corrupted file in the cloud and, if so, how to remedy the situation. Since it's in the cloud, I can't do anything about. I can't even see it. Most troubling.
Note:
When I went to the Genius Bar, they had me do a complete restore of the phone (not from backup) to elminate any corrupt files within the phone itself. Even that didn't solve the problem.   That's when he brought out the 4S phone to test on and we were both so shocked at how blazingly fast the songs downloaded, error-free. That phone was able to download 8 songs completely before one song downloaded to my phone sitting right next to it. Both on the same Apple Store network and both downloading the exact same tracks using my Apple ID and login.   While it's tempting to say that the 4S is faster than the 4, I don't think it's 8 times faster with download speeds over WiFi.   However, even if the speed/completion discrepancy is because the 4S is superior, it doesn't explain the mind-boggling disparity between my wife's phone and my phone -- both iPhone 4's and both running the same iOS.   Throw in the oddity of iTunes on Lion crashing whenever iTunes Match is on and this all seems to point to some corruption in the cloud that perhaps the 4S device is able to bypass...for whatever reason.
Please help. This is nuts.

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ICloud Drive vs iTunes Match questions

So I have been looking into different ways of having my music accessible throughout all of my OS devices. From what I have seen, I can either purchase a subscription to iTunes Match, or I can just purchase additional iCloud storage. Now just for the sake of my music, I would need to purchase a 200 GB plan, costing me about $50 a year, therefore the iTunes Match subscription would be the cheaper alternative at $24.99 a year. However I do have a couple of questions regarding both options.
Ideally, what I would like to do, is to be able to open iTunes on either my MacBook Air or my iMac, or the Music app on my iPhone or iPad, and be able to access and play any song in my entire collection. Also, syncing of playlists throughout my devices is something I desire greatly.
Now that OS X Yosemite is out (all my devices are either running OS X Yosemite or iOS 8), I understand that file sharing is made much easier. So this led me to think that maybe I should purchase additional storage and store my music in the iCloud Drive. But here is where I start needing some clarity. Suppose I open iTunes or the Music app on a device. Will my entire collection be visible through the app(s), or would I have to access iCloud Drive and play the files from there? Also, assuming that my entire collection can be seen via the app(s), will any playlists that I create be synced? Also concerning the iPhone, if I choose to play a song, will it get downloaded from the Drive onto the device, taking up internal storage, or will it get streamed? Is there, perhaps, a way to have these app(s) continuously sync their libraries with a specific "Music" folder on iCloud Drive (with playlists being synced)?
From what I understand from iTunes Match, all of my songs that are matched with songs from the iTunes Store will immediately be made available to me in my iTunes Library for playing. Now the songs that do not get matched: do they get uploaded to the storage that is provided by iTunes Match (25,000 songs), or do they get uploaded to my iCloud Drive? Are the songs that matched included in this 25,000 song limit, or does it only count the songs that didn't match? Will iTunes Match sync my playlists across all devices, regardless of which device the playlist was created on? Also, on the iPhone, same question as before, will songs be streamed from the storage that iTunes Match provides or will they have to be downloaded to play?
Based on how I want to be able to access and play my music, I'm inclined to think that maybe iTunes Match is the better (and cheaper) alternative? If simply using the iCloud Drive is good enough, then I wouldn't mind paying the extra amount for storage because I'm sure I'll be taking advantage of file sharing even outside of music. iTunes Match also has the ad-free iTunes Radio which might be cool too.
I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about this or if you have any better methods of keeping all music files organized and synced across all devices, then I'm all ears.
P.S this is my first post so sorry if it's lengthy.

ITunes match does not use iCloud Drive to store music. if you want to share music with all your devices, you should purchase iTunes Match. ICloud Drive provides storage for other non music data and you have 5gb free - you can purchase more if required.
JIm

A few iTunes Match questions no one is asking

Ok, so if I get iTunes match, and that's how all my music is loaded to my phone, if I go to play all my songs on shuffle, is it going to trip up on me skipping like 5 songs in 3 seconds since it has to find the song and start streaming it? It just seems like having it in the cloud will actually slow it down.
Also, I'm assuming my devices will have to have a constant and GOOD Internet connection CONSTANTLY! So if I'm in a building with no wifi (or just a password lock) and no reception, I'm screwed? No music?
Also how will this work with apps like iMovie that referenda the song files on your device for adding music to a video you're editing?
If I'm on 3G, am I going to be able to listen to my music and do ANYTHING else I want? Or are we going go discover we can't do two things at once, like how we found out you can't talk and use 3G at once?
Is this going to be using data on my data plan? If so, how much? Seems stupid to pay $30 a month for 2GB of data, and to spend that all just on music?
And how badly is this going to kill my battery? ESPECIALLY on 3G? It seems like constantly streaming and downloading is going to kill my battery twice as fast.
And if t does 'download' my music, and if I have my phone filled with my iTunes match music and photos and apps and videos, then I go to listen to a song a already have on the phone, when it goes to download it, if I don't have enough space, will it not let me listen to it? Could I run into a problem of it downloading to many of my songs to where I have to go back and delete my last 10 songs just to make room for more songs I want to listen to now?
These things are bothering me so much and no one is addressing them.

Limnos
"Potentially all valid issues but as far as I can tell iTunes Match still hasn't been released and Apple doesn't approve of un-announced feature "speculation" on this web site. Unless it is something on Apple.com (in which case you probably would have found it) we can't discuss it here until it has been released."
I thought this has already been released as a beta version for developers to test out. Are you telling me that if it's up for people to test, you're not allowed to talk about it?
and iTunes Match IS on the website. But it doesn't address all these questions!
so I'd say the fact that it is released for testing, the software is out there, they're talking about it on the website, and i'm not speculating anything (i'm asking questions that are real concerns that are not addressed at all on Apple's site), that I should be absolutly fine asking these questions on here.
If anyone out there is testing this iTunes Match, they can simply answer my question. This is in no way speculation, but research for answers to issues that are out there that are not being addressed.

HT4915 iTunes Match Question

I did not renew my iTunes Match subscription and need to know how to remove all the music I can no longer access off my iphone. Can anyone help? Thanks!

You may need to turn off itunes match on your phone in settings. You should also be able to swipe across a selected song, artist, or album that you do not want and see a red delete button appear. If you can not get that to work, you can go into settings and delete all your music but you'll have to re sync all your music you want.
Tuen off iTunes Match on your phone: go to settings/iTunes & app stores/select iTunes Match off.
To delete all music completely: go to settings/general/usage/music (once it loads the parameters) swipe across and press delete.

IPad 3 iTunes Match question

I'm just setting up my new iPad from scratch. Subscribed to iTunes Match on Mac. iPad keeps saying I don't have subscription.
But - Mac appleID and iPad appleID are two different usernames/passwords. iPad has my username as my me.com mail address. Mac has a different personal email as my username.
Is this the cause of the problem? If so, which one should I change?
Thanks for any help

Yes this is exactly the cause of the problem. iTunes Match will only work when using the same Apple ID, you have used to buy iTunes Match on your Mac. So you will have to change your Apple ID on your iPad under Settings>Store. Now you should be able to activate iTunes Match under Settings>Music. Hope this helps.

HT4914 Is iTune Match included/supported with Apple's Family Sharing?

My question is my family has different apple IDs and i am using Apple's family sharing now can I (the organiser) subscribe to iTune Match and all family members will be able to link to it?
Also, does iTune Match has Bollywood songs?
chrs
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No, you can't share your iTunes Match with Family Sharing.

HT4914 I Tunes Match Question - IPhones Music

Since iOS devices will start playing tracks from iCloud as they download and will store them so that you can listen to them later, is there a way to remove them from my IPhone after listening so that I still have space on my hard drive?

Hello mebeth,
You can delete a song directly from your iPhone by swiping from right to left over the song:
Remove a song that’s been downloaded. Swipe left, then tap Delete.
iPhone User Guide - iTunes Match
http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/#/iph6e2dfb83
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

HT4914 Does itunes match store video ??

Does itunes match allow you to store video and games downloaded from App Store in icloud ??

Sorry but iTunes Match does not cover music videos. It has something to do with the agreement between Apple and the music record companies. I hope this answered your question.

HT4914 Will iTunes match match songs that have been downloaded using a different audible account?

Will iTunes match match songs that have been downloaded using a different audible account?

Hey there Chriskir,
It sounds like you would like to delete all the songs from your iPad but still be able to access them in iTunes Match. You can delete all the songs from the Music section of your Usage in Settings by swiping your music left:
Settings > General > Usage
iPhone, iPad, and iPod: Understanding capacity
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1867
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the best,
Sterling

HT4914 Does itunes match support video streaming ?

Hi everybody, do u know if itunes match support video streaming ?

iTunes Match is currently only for music, not videos

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