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."

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HT4914 Youth restrictions and iTunes Match

What if I don't want all music to sync across all devices? For example, I don't want my 4 year old's iPod to have the same music as I do. Is there a way to control which songs sync across devices?

SB,
Create playlists with the appropriate music for your child, and then set up your child's iPod to sync with the option "Sync Selected Playlists." It is explained in this video:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/how-to/#video-sync

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.

HT4913 I have a bunch of ripped cd's on my pc and iTunes Match is not recognizing them. How can I get them into the cloud?

I have a bunch of ripped cd's on my pc and iTunes Match is not recognizing them. How can I get them into the cloud?

hello quantumtech, could you go to the firefox ''menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information'', copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

Cannot see BOTH synched library AND iTunes Match library at the same time

I ran iTunes Match on my library of MP3 files and hit the maximum allowed 25,000 song limit in my paid iTunes Match account. Then I created a new version of my local/PC iTunes library with those 25,000 MP3 songs removed, and synchronized it with my iPhone 4s running IOS7 and iTunes Match turned OFF. So far so good.
So now I theoretically have no duplication between my 25,000 song iTunes Match library and my local iTunes library that resides on my PC.
But even though I have the "Show All Music" setting on the phone turned on, the iTunes Match songs don't appear on my iPhone until I also turn the iTunes Match setting on. But as soon as I do that, all of the songs I synched from my local iTunes library on my PC completely disappear- having been completely replaced by my iTunes Match library. If I then turn the iTunes Match setting off again (while still leaving "Show All Music on"), the iTunes Match songs also disappear, leaving my iPhone music library completely empty. Have I misunderstood the meaning of the "Show All Music" setting, or is something malfunctioning?
My question is: How can I make ALL of my songs (both the ones I have previously captured in ITunes Match AND the ones I synched with my PC via iTunes) appear on my iPhone at the same time? This scenario seemed to be working just fine under IOS6 on the same iPhone.

I had a somewhat similar experience. When I enabled paid iTunes Match on my iPhone 5, iOS7, all of my locally-stored songs on the iPhone disappeared and remained gone even after I disabled iTunes Match on the iPhone.
A chat session with Apple support revealed that iTunes Match will in fact supersede any synched content on the iPhone. The suggestion from Apple support was to download on the phone all the previously-synched content via iTunes Match wireless connection. Of course, that would take hours if not days. And that crazy workaround won't help you because you want songs other than what you have in the Cloud.
It appears that various members of this forum have not had this same experience. I'm not sure what's going on here. Usually with Apple's tight control of hardware and software these anomalies are avoided.
And I didn't really need iTunes Match except I wanted commercial-free iTunes Radio (which I think is great, by the way). At least for now, commercial-free radio (with a paid subscription) can be achieved only by enabling all of the iTunes Match features. I'm not sure why Apple requires this bundling unless its part of a general push to a streaming model for everything (more revenue opportunities) as opposed to supporting local storage.

I the cloud and itunes match. Some songs have the "waiting" icon next to them but are unable to upload and instead of determing them ineligible itunes continues to try to upload that song and never gets to the rest of the list.

I have icloud and itunes match and most of my songs have been uploaded to the cloud. Some songs still have the "waiting" icon next to them and when I turn itunes match on they neither upload nor are they determined ineligible. My computer will literally spin its wheels for hours trying to upload the same song. Additionally, I uploaded an audiobook disc on my computer and 3 of the 11 tracks are still waiting to be uploaded???

The exclamation mark happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
If the missing files just can't be found then, assuming you are in region where you are permitted multiple downloads of your audio purchases, delete the current enties and download again from your purchased history.
tt2

HT3819 What's the difference, other than the 24.99, between Home Sharing (free) and iTunes Match (24.99)?

What's the difference, other than the 24.99, between Home Sharing (free) and iTunes Match (24.99)?

Home sharing allows you to share content between computers and devices on your wifi network - so if you have your library on your computer's iTunes and you want to access it on your iPad then both your computer and iPad have to be turned on, iTunes open on your computer, and both need to be connected to the same wifi network.
iTunes Match will upload your music library to the cloud (including music copied from CDs and from other sources) allowing you to accces it from your computer or iPad without requiring your main computer to be on - and if you have access to a network when not at home you can download or stream music from it. It's also acts as a second backup of your content (you should still maintain your own backup of your library).
iTunes Match, from http://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/ :
Once your music is in iCloud, you can play it from any of your devices. Just browse the complete list of all your music stored in the cloud and tap to play to it. You can store up to 25,000 songs in iCloud (more if songs are purchased from the iTunes Store), but only what you play or download is stored on your device. Tap the iCloud download button to download music from an artist, album, or playlist. So you have immediate access to a huge music library without having to worry about the storage space on your device.
But whether it's worth it only you will know. Personally I don't use it, I keep and maintain my own backup of my content and sync it to my devices so that I don't have to rely on being online to access what I might want to listen to,

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.

How do icloud and itunes match work with multiple libraries?

How do icloud and itunes match work with multiple libraries?

This forum is for troubleshooting compatibility issues between Macs and Windows, not iTunes. You'll probably want to repost your question in the iTunes discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=150

ITunes Apple ID and iCloud Apple ID and iTunes Match

I have a family Apple ID associated with my iMac and iPad for iTunes and Apps. I have two new iPhone 5s. Each iPhone has been setup to have a separate Apple ID for email (iCloud) and to use the family Apple ID for iTunes and Apps. Can I initiate iTunes Match from my iMac and use iTunes Match on all devices especially since the iPhones have two Apple IDs "loaded" ?

Hi,
If you are using the same ID for Itunes purchases, APPs and Itunes match, you should be OK. Separate ID can be use for iCloud which is not the same as iMatch.
Read this http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4895
JIm

New Family Sharing and iTunes Match

Hello to all. With the release of iOS8 and the Beta of Yosemite, I have decided to leverage the new family sharing of the iTunes accounts. The set up works fine and I have gotten it working, just wondering how to get iTunes match to work with it. So pre-iOS8 I had an account "A" that all my iTunes purchases and iTunes Match were done with and then my wife and I both have personal accounts "B" and "C" for iCloud. So basically when I set up a device I would use one of our iCloud accounts (B or C) and then A for iTunes. This allowed for us to both see our purchases and also have access to our music via iTunes Match.
Now that I have put in Family Sharing and we now sign in with our own accounts. The purchases of apps work and we can see each others purchases. But when I goto iTunes we are not able to see the music that is associated with our primary account and it is requiring us both to purchase iTunes Match.
So any help on how to get iTunes Match to work across account with Family Sharing.

This has forced my family to go back to using one iTunes account. It is unfortunate because of all the features family sharing offers. My wife was excited about not having to compete for bookmarks when we are reading the same book, one little example.
be sure to leave feedback at https://www.apple.com/feedback/. I also sent some emails to the major apple blogs out there in hopes that they write about it. I assume the more negative attention the better chance there is a solution, not that this is deal breaking or anything, but still.

HT204053 Enter the Apple ID you want to use for iCloud in Control Panel Network Internet iCloud. Enter the Apple ID you want to use for store purchases (including iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match) in iTunes iTunes Store.

Enter the Apple ID you want to use for iCloud in Control Panel > Network > Internet > iCloud.
Enter the Apple ID you want to use for store purchases (including iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match) in iTunes > iTunes Store.

Welcome to the Apple community.
iTunes and iCloud and different accounts, you will need to delete both accounts from your device before adding the new details in their place.
For iCloud go to settings > iCloud, scroll down and hit the delete button. You can then sign back in using your correct details. For iTunes go to settings >store, tap your account ID and then sign out, you can then sign back in using your correct Apple ID.

Mp3 and itunes match

Recently purchases the beatles in mono, and itunes match just keep turning around and around? anyone could help?
Also, bought a rolling stones complete vinyle set that have a free download in mp3 of all the vinyl, never been able to keep them in itunes match, imatch keep going on and off, all the way, it even erase my entire librairy on all my computer when i turnit off, to see if it was that, i let it running for 3 days, without any improvement, i finaly erase all my mp3 files? anyone has an answer?

tapajeurs wrote:
Recently purchases the beatles in mono, and itunes match just keep turning around and around? anyone could help?
See this specific thread for a discussion on The Beatles mono boxed set: Re: The Beatles in Mono - 48 of 185 mono songs Matched to stereo versions. And this is a list of several threads discussing the boxed set:
https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?resultTypes=&dateRange=all&peopleEnabl ed=true&q=The+Beatles&containerType=14&container=2882&username=&rankBy=relevance &numResults=15
tapajeurs wrote:
Also, bought a rolling stones complete vinyle set that have a free download in mp3 of all the vinyl, never been able to keep them in itunes match, imatch keep going on and off, all the way, it even erase my entire librairy on all my computer when i turnit off, to see if it was that, i let it running for 3 days, without any improvement, i finaly erase all my mp3 files? anyone has an answer?
As for the Rolling Stones... where did you download the MP3 files from and what bit-rate are they? Many times when the iTM process in iTunes keeps looping back to step 1 it is because it is trying to match some particular tracks. My advice is to add the tracks a few a time; say, one album at a time and let iTM work on those and complete before you add another album. Having the process try to work on dozens or even hundreds of tracks when it is looping like that can be frustrating.

4th gen touch and iTunes Match no longer works

I have a 4th gen touch, and iTunes Match no longer works - I choose it in settings, and it just turns itself off a few seconds later - it worked before, and I had to restore the iPod, and it doesn't work any more.

Hi randy_m,
If you are having issues with your iPod touch turning off iTunes Match unexpectedly, you may want to try some things to troubleshoot.
First, quit all running applications and test again -
Force an app to close in iOS
Next, I would try restarting and if needed resetting the iPod -
Restart or reset your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
If the issue is still present, you may want to restore the iPod as a new device -
How to erase your iOS device and then set it up as a new device or restore it from backups.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

Photostream and Itune match are no longer working ?

I couldn''t acces the Photostream wile in the previous releases I had no issue with that.
So today I had some time and reinstalled my Apple TV 3, heart about some network problems and a reinstall should have solved the issues
However, after the reinstall, I could no longer acces the Itunes Store, not Photostream or Itunes Match
After a cold restart, I could acces the itunes store; Photostream still doesn''t work and Itunes Match starts to contact and tell me that i can take a view minutes to download, but after a couple of hours the Itunes Match songs are still not displayed
So in fact I have a worthless Apple TV 3 now, which cannot play my cloud music, the only working function is Airplay
I have to admit that was the main feature to buy the box for;
Anything for the moment or are we facing real bug nows ?
By the way, I have the Apple TV 3 connected via fixed ethernet using DHCP
via a 100Mb synchronous connection. Iphones, laptops, Ipad other devices are all working fine
and the ethernetlink on the ATV 3 is also checked.

Disabling Fixed Ethernet, and only use Wifi solves the issue. Looks like a bug on fixed ethernet

HT4914 Ripping CDs and iTunes Match question

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