HT4914 On itunes, if an Album is supposed to have 10 songs, there are currently 40 songs.? Would imatch correct problems like those?

Question

My music file in / on itunes is messed up. If an album is supposed to have 10 songs, the system (itunes) has duplicated them at least 4 times so where an album is supposed to have 10 songs, now there are 40 songs. How can I correct errors like those? And, would imatch correct problems such as those? Please help! Thank you!

Answer 1

Due to the nature of the how the service works you should not expect a 100% match rate for anything, even if it is available in the iTunes Store. This is the simple reality.
The most probable reason you are seeing what you are seeing is due to the mastering of the version of the music in your iTunes library and what is available in the iTunes Store. Let's take The Beatles catalog for example. I own the Capital Albums remaster collections from 2004 and 2006. The Beatles official catalog was remastered and re-issued in 2009. Many of the tracks on the '04-'06 discs actually match to the '09 remastered tracks available in the iTunes Store because they the waveforms are similar enough that iTunes deems them a match. This is the opposite of what you describe because I actually do not want any of the tracks from these albums to match to anything in the store. I would prefer them to all be uploaded. But that isn't the way it worked. The mastering of the album can have a huge impact on what matches or not.