ITunes Match brings up an issue...

Uploading unmatched songs wouldn't be such an issue if this country got it's act together and offered decent upload speeds. I have Mid tier Roadrunner service and my upload bandwidth is only 1/2 a megabit. This is ridiculous for this day and age. We should have at least a 3-5 Mbps upload. Uploading just one song is painfully slow and reminds me of when I was downloading mp3s from Napster on a 56k modem. Well maybe not THAT bad but you get the idea. I hope Apple fine tunes the matching so we don't have to spend so much time uploading. Any thoughts?

You also need the iTunes library files: iTunes Library Extras.itdb, iTunes Library Genius.itdb, iTunes Library.itl. These files will put everything back just the way it was on the other computer.

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    GDubEN4637 wrote:
    but I keep losing music that I upload from CD or it reverts back to cloud on the sync
    If you are an iTunes Match subscriber, you can't sync your musice from your computer using iTunes, it that's what you are doing.  You have to download it from your iTunes Match account in iCloud.

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  • 2 HUGE Issues with iTunes Match that I am having...

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    Hi,
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    Mettelin wrote:
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    Message was edited by: burakkuchi - Added problem 6.

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