ITunes Match Content Upload Limit

Hi;
Is there a limitation for content uploading to iTunes Match service?Can i upload any music any time to match and make it available for all my deivces?

For Itunes match you are limited to 25K tracks that have not been purchased in itunes store. Itunes store purchases are not counted towards this limit.
When you sign up for match, your library is scanned and tracks are matched or uploaded. The only tracks uploaded are those ones that Itunes can't match.
You cannot pick or choose the the tracks that you wish to be uploaded.
Matched, Uploaded & purchased will be available on your IOS devices.
Jim

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Where is iTunes Match content stored on apple TV? I recently joined itunes match and it is working on my ios devices, but I can't find my uploaded music on Apple TV

It isn't actually stored anywhere, it needs to be downloaded from the internet before any content can be played.
iTunes Match content is accessed through the 'Music' icon on the main screen though, it needs turning on though in settings first.

ITunes Match exceeded 25k limit question

Hi,
My iTunes library exceeded 25k songs, and so I went through and deleted quite a lot of albums - when you right-click an album though, it doesn't ask you if you also want to delete the songs from iCloud - I think from experimenting that I should have selected the individual songs instead - however, I've taken my local library down to 24k now but it's still saying my iCloud exceeds the 25k limit.
Any ideas on what I should do next - is there an option to manually manage my iCloud collection for instance?
Thanks
I'm on OS X 10.9.5, and the latest version of iTunes FWIW.

Hi,
This is a draft of a user tip I intend posting. Does it help?
"iTunes match has a limit of 25k tracks for tracks matched or uploaded. iTunes purchases do not count towards this limit.
Can you have iTunes match and an iTunes library with more than 25K?
Yes but you need to manage your library so that you keep matched and uploaded tracks below 25k. With iCloud status column added to song view (go to menu > view > view options and tick appropriate box), you can tell what has been matched, uploaded, purchased, ineligible, duplicate or waiting. You can also have a "Removed" status. Such files are ignored when match scans your library.
I achieved this by creating a second blank library - I signed into match and was able to view all tracks in iTunes Match. iTunes: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one
I then deleted some tracks from this library - effectively deleting tracks in the cloud. They were not deleted from you hard drive and will still appear in your original library. This method works well if you have a second computer on which your library only shows tracks in the cloud.
When I went back into my original library, the iCloud status for those tracks were shown as "removed". iTunes Match will now ignore those tracks. You can now add new tracks provided you kept matched and uploaded to less than 25k. I keep a smart playlist any track with iCloud status = matched and any track with iCloud status.
If you have exceeded the limit, the iCloud status will tell you so but even after you have deleted the excess tracks, you might still get this message. You may find that using the above method will fix the problem BUT i can not verify this. If you back up your library regularly to may be able to restore the iTunes library.itl from a time immediately before you first had exceeded limit problem."
Jim

How can I force iTunes Match to upload a "Duplicate" to the iCloud?

I have one album where the first track was uploaded, and the other eleven tracks are all tagged as "Duplicates." These tracks were not uploaded to the iCloud. How can I force iTunes Match to upload these eleven tracks erroneously tagged as Duplicates?

I'm adding my 2¢ because I just "discovered" iTunes Match yesterday and decided to subscribe thinking there was no downside (doh!).
Well, firstly, there's the enormous downside of Apple's structure not being able to keep up with (what they should have known would be) enormous interest... my iTunes has been matching for >20-hours and has yet to reach half-way up my library. BTW: I thought I read the iTunes Match info fairly thoroughly prior to subscribing and did not see anything about it being for songs vrs full library.
And secondly, and even more important to me, is that Apple's method of determining duplicate songs is not robust enough, especially for classical music and audio books (e.g., LoTR). I have >12000 "songs" in my library, and Match has determined a boatload are duplicates. They are not of course and even if Apple's duplicate-determining algorithm just looked at disc & track numbers it would "know" that. Anyway, there's a fairly good chance I will not have one complete album upload/match out of >500 albums. That's nae Scottish, in anybody's book.
Gotta say, using Garage Band to individually alter >2000 "songs" on the off-chance that may assist Apple's duplicate algorithm to be correct is not gonna happen. If, after the matching/uploading is complete, I still have >even 100-not-duplicate-songs listed as duplicates, I'm getting my $29.95 subscription back.
... and C: does anybody know why Apple's Lion spell check doesn't work on Apple's discussion forums???

Will iTunes Match re-upload songs replaced in Library at higher bitrate?

In my iTunes Library (18,000+ tracks, mainly ripped from my own CDs), I have tracks ripped at different bitrates, from 128, 160, 256, 320 kbps, as well as Apple Lossless. Given how cheap storage has become since I first ripped many of my CDs, I am going through my CD collection one last time and re-ripping everything into Apple Lossless (ALAC) format. I am starting with the tracks that are in the Library now at 128 & 160 kbps. Many of these songs have been matched by iTunes Match, so they are available to me from iTunes at 256 kbps, but I will still create ALAC versions.
My question is about the tracks that iTunes Match has uploaded to Apple. When I replace the tracks in my Library recorded at low bitrates with the ALAC version, I would like for iTunes Match to notice and re-upload the new file. I understand that iTunes Match will convert ALAC files and upload them at a max of 256 kbps, but right now it seems that iTunes Match does not recognize changes in the underlying file on my computer. For example, if a track was originally uploaded as 128 kbps and then I replace it in my Library with an ALAC version, the 128 kbps version stays on Apple's servers instead of being replaced by a 256 kbps version. I have tested this by downloading tracks from the cloud on other machines connected to my account and they come down at 128 kbps, even though an ALAC file is in the "master" Library.
So my question: is there a way to get iTunes to replace uploaded files on Apple's servers with the highest bitrate version possible if you change the local file after it has been uploaded?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Drew

Hippogreen,
I chose not to follow your Item 4, ie, I am ripping new ALAC tracks directly over the lower bitrate tracks in my existing Library. I just did not want all the extra labor involved in recreating playlists when I reimport, and I did not want to lose the metadata of playcounts, date original imported to library, etc.
If you do as I am doing and want the new ALAC track to directly replace the existing ones in your Library, your Item 1 is relevant:
1) If I have heavily corrected the metadata of a track and it is substantially different from the info provided by iTunes (when I re-rip the CD into ALAC format), how will iTunes know that it is a duplicate? I assume I will have to manually de-duplicate in such a situation. I am thinking of uploaded rather than matched tracks.
Like you, I had heavily corrected and personalized metadata, including my preferred capitalizations (often very different from Gracenote and the automated data from iTunes!), track performers, etc. I wanted to preserve all of that, but if your tracks' metadata differs from that which is automatically supplied when you insert a CD, then iTunes will not offer to replace the existing tracks. The solution for me was an AppleScript I found at the fantastic website Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes (dougscripts.com). Get the script "Copy Track Info to CD Tracks v1.3". The URL is:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=trackinfotocdtracks
This script copies all of your personailzed metadata to the CD tracks so that your own metadata is preserved while iTunes recognizes that the CD is already in your library and replaces the tracks. You can read the complete instructions at dougscripts.com and in the included documentation. It has been a lifesaver, and is truly the only way I have been able to move forward quickly re-ripping my CDs into ALAC.
Note also that when iTunes "replaces" the existing tracks with the new ALAC versions, it does not actually delete the original files. They remain in the same folder where originally stored, but they just become unlinked from the iTunes Library entries. The new files are linked to the iTunes entries, but you are not in danger of losing your original files. You have to go in and delete them manually if you want, or keep them.

HT5085 iTunes Match not upload songs.

iTunes Match not upload songs.
Done "Step 1: Gathering information about your iTunes library" and freeze.
Please advise how to solve this problem.

you are not alone
iTunes Match doesn't upload my songs?
Match process stalling out at end

WORKAROUND - Found a Way to Force iTunes Match to UPLOAD

I wanted to let everyone know that after months of living with incorrect matches (mainly The Beatles in Mono), I've finally found a semi-easy workaround to force uploads. I haven't found this anywhere else, but if someone else has documented it, I apologize. I posted this onto one of the many threads regarding the issue quite some time ago (~ 6 months), but I wanted to make sure it was seen by as many as possible. (Sorry for the long post—skip anything you're not interested in! )
MY THEORY
The basis of this was noticing that there seemed to be discrete steps to the matching process (when adding via already-ripped FILES and not CD at least):
You add the files to iTunes
You can force a scan by right-clicking and selecting "Add to iCloud"
iTunes scans the new files
iTunes reports that it is sending the file data to Apple
iTunes waits for a "Matched" or "No Match" response from Apple
If the response is "No Match," then iTunes triggers the upload
After observing this for some time, I concluded that if (edited) files could be imported that would give a definite "No Match" result, there may be time in-between steps 4 and 6 to replace the files with the real ones (which had been triggering a false match in the past). To my delight, this worked. Here's what I did:
STEP-BY-STEP:
Deleted existing files from iTunes/iCloud, but kept the files on the computer. I then moved these to a different folder.
Took existing files and converted them with dBpoweramp. This will cost money but is well worth it if you are looking for a way to force an upload to iTunes Match. I converted them using the same AAC settings (this doesn't matter), but added the "reverse" DSP, which reverses the audio. This has been enough to foil iTunes into not matching the track, while ensuring that each file will contain unique audio data. This will be quick and painless, at least for the first time. I did it this way because it will retain all of the tags AND length of the file. iCloud will get the file length from this step, and will not change it afterward...so you probably want to use files of the same length as the real ones.
Now I have a copy of the files with audio gibberish but still having correct metadata, etc. I then put these files in my "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder.
Right-clicked on these files and selected "Add to iCloud." If you use "Sort Album" like I do, you can change it before this step and it will upload into iCloud with the correct sort information. If done afterward, it doesn't usually sort correctly on my iPhone.
After iTunes displayed the message "Sending information to Apple" (don't remember the exact message), I pasted the original (correct) files and replaced my audio gibberish files. It is important to note that the filenames must be the same, e.g. "01 Come Together.m4a" if a single-disc, or "1-01 Back in the USSR.m4a" if multidisc. iTunes will also truncate the file name at 36 characters (I believe) so this will all need to be done beforehand. I use various MP3tag actions that I'd be happy to share if anyone wants them. If you are starting with a file that has already existed in your iTunes library, this will already be done (provided iTunes is managing the library).
When Apple returns a "No Match" signal back to iTunes, it then begins to upload the files which I have just pasted.
This has worked for me 100% if doing the upload one time. In some rare cases, I may decide to EQ a file and then re-upload, or otherwise edit the file. Or perhaps I have more than one version (original/remastered, or original mix/remix) that I want to coexist in my library. In those cases, I have again utilized the dBpoweramp "VST Plug-in" DSP, where I use something like Freq Show to garble the audio. It is necessary for the garbled audio to be unique each time for this to work.
A FEW THINGS I HAVE LEARNED
If you delete a file and wish to re-upload it, you can use the same files from step 2 (provided you still have them) and iTunes will recognize them as the files previously uploaded. I am not sure how long this works, but your uploaded music remains in iCloud, though invisible, for some time — even if you selected "Delete from iCloud."
iTunes/iCloud evidently does use metadata (at least Album) to help determine if you've already uploaded a song within the same album. I ran into this when trying to test an EQ/level change I had made, and even though the audio content was completely different, iTunes would not upload or would flag as duplicate. If I altered the Album field in any way it would proceed. Other tags can be kept the same.
If you do have mono content, it is trivial to use the dBpoweramp "Channel Mapper" DSP to remove one channel during the conversion from lossless to AAC. The nice thing is, I encode with Nero AAC quality 0.65 (~250 kbps VBR) and this will reduce the file size significantly. There is no real advantage to keeping both channels, since you're doing a lossy conversion anyway. Sometimes the encoders (even very good ones) don't see the file as being mono, due to different artifacts and noise in the left and right channels. Or perhaps the mono tape was transfered with a stereo tape deck, etc. Try it yourself and see if it makes a difference. Also, iTunes will report the file as "mono" when you do "Get Info." I keep the FLAC disc image/tracks in stereo so it will exactly match the CD, but only encode one channel to lossy. If you know the source is mono for sure then there is no possible advantage to keeping both channels of a lossy conversion. (If you're not sure if the source is mono, use your favorite DAW, e.g. Audacity, to invert the phase of one channel before combining left and right. Once you do that, if all that is left is very low-level noise or other artifacts, then you know it is safe to encode as mono.)
IF YOU CARE ABOUT MASTERING
It is also worth noting that if you care about what mastering you have in your iTunes library, there is no other way I know of to guarantee you have the correct version in your iCloud library except to upload it. I found this out the hard way: I had a retail CD version of Paul McCartney's "RAM" album that was recently remastered. I put the CD in, added to my library, and iTunes Match quickly returned with "Matched" for all tracks. Some time later I was listening with headphones and noticed that some tracks had hardly any hiss at all, whereas others had a good amount of it. Since "RAM" is a rather hissy album, I investigated it against the CD and finally found that many of the tracks were being matched to other versions of the song (either from the earlier CD version or compilations with different mastering). So most of the tracks were hit with heavy noise reduction for the iCloud version. I had to follow this upload procedure to be sure that I got the right version. Purchasing the item(s) from the iTunes store would work also, but I had already paid $100 for the deluxe box set. This same problem occured with the Bob Dylan mono box. I was surprised to find that iTunes actually matched my mono versions to mono versions, and continued listening until one day the stereo version played on a certain track instead of the mono. So, even if the iTunes store has the mix/mastering that you are wanting to add to iCloud, the only sure way is to upload it (or purchase it from iTunes in the first place.) If given the choice going forward I would choose the latter, since I am not hung up on physical media and cannot tell a 256K iTunes store encode apart from a FLAC file in a double blind test (almost nobody can).
This has been bothering me for months. I'm really happy to be able to play my correct files on all my devices! For those of us who have unique versions or masterings of albums we prefer, this should be a workaround until Apple decides to give us a "force upload" option. I have tested this on Windows 7 primarily. Should work on any OS.
Hope everyone finds this useful!
Nick

I wanted to first thank you for this, as this is the only workaround literature that seems to be floating around out there. With that said, I know it is a big ask, but is there any way that you could create a video showing step by step how to do what you do? I have several tracks that are stuck in waiting mode, and if left in itunes, will never upload or match...they only cause the upload process to hang up and restart. I've tried leaving it for days...I've tried converting the files, signing in and out of itunes (and itunes match), updating itunes match, and I tried your technique...unfortunately to no avail. Perhaps I didn't do your technique correctly. I used audacity to reverse the audio.
ANY help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!
Thanks

HT4914 iTunes match not uploading songs

I have uploaded a vinyl copy of quite a few artists from my collection and it appears that iTunes match is not recognising them and replacing the uploaded content with one of better quality as stated!
The one which came to my notice first of all was Queen- She Makes Me ( Stormtrooper in Stilletos) from The album Sheer Heart Attack. This album is in iTunes!
Any ideas??????

I'm a little confused you said iTunes Match is not recognizing them and replacing with better quality. If iTunes Match doesn't recognize a song it will upload the version that is on your computer. If it does recognize it you'll have access to the 256KBps version on all devices immediately (wont need to upload).

Itunes Match wont upload new songs... keeps refreshing...Help!

On my mac, I open Itunes, and I add a new song, then my itunes match starts the process of uploading. it will get half way through step two then stop and restart and it will continue doing this until, I get frustrated enough to just delete it.
Now, I have already have most of my library on Itunes match but its only recently started happening when I add new songs.
add these songs are coming off a cd! any ideas? the troubleshooting doesnt help!
Thanks In advance!

i am having the exact same issue - had itunes match since day one without problems and now nothing else will upload

Itunes Match Wont Upload 2000 Songs

I just got itunes match,
I let it do its thing for a few hours and it started to upload the music.
Then my interent crashed because the bell lines in my aera suck some times. and now I'm trying to get it to work again and it just stays at the point after
step 1 Sending to apple.
Now, I went out of the house and I went and did some shoping and I got this error when I got back
Itunes says "We could not complete your itunes Store Request. An unkown error occurred (4002). Please try later
Well is this not great or what?
I think the servers are just over taken by the latest wwdc confrence but still, its 2012 could apple not run wwdc and itunes match at the same time?

Hi,
This is a problem with genius.
Turn off iTunes match. This will delete genius results. Sign out /then back into iTunes store.
Turn genius back on then after genius has been updated, update iTunes matched. You will be asked to add the computer again.
Trust this works.
Jim

Itunes match not uploading any songs just stuck on "uploading 1 of 1432" for teh last two days , any help ??

I purchased Itune match it matched about 9432 songs and the remaining 1432 it did not got to step 3 of uploading and its been 3 days just keeps saying uploading 1 of 1432 . i have restarted itunes , tried on different ISPs etc no luck what gives , on top of that on my iphone since i turned on match my play lists dont show up . when i try to synch with match off still my play lists do not show up ?

Don't know what fantasy planet bigAl_25 lives on. It does not work consistently for anyone that has a substantial library period. If your lucky, you get 6 songs before it freezes up. Know countless people that have it. Don't know a single person that it works for consistently (on an Iphone) who has a substantial library. I have to run with my Nano because it doesn't work. I have had Apple products since 1984, I know how to trouble shoot issues. There is no current solution. Like other posters, I have tried every single possible fix, including all of those recommended here. It's just not ready for prime time. Until it is, it will continue to be be hit and miss, with the only temporary fixes being to go back to menu, select different mix, or playlist. If that doesn't work, quit app. If that doesn't work, restart the phone. One of these will probably solve your problem, but again only temporarily for about 6 songs, and the cycle repeats itself. You do get a little bit better results over WiFi and if you download all the songs to the iphone before you roll the playlist, but again inconsistent at best. Best idea, worst implementation. I'm sure Apple will eventually fix it. Until then it is hit and miss. I don't care about the $25 (but won't renew if not working when my year is up), just want it to work. GET WITH IT APPLE. Match is a home run, devote more resources to getting the bugs out.

ITunes Match Not Uploading

iTunes match suddenly quit uploading music to the cloud. It goes through all the other steps but when it comes to uploading it fails. The songs are reading error beside them and I tried to refresh iTunes Match but it keeps failing to upload. Is anyone having this issue?

Mine cut out about an hour ago and I actually logged in here to see if I was the only one affected. Every upload I attempt gives me an "error" message.
I also just called the Apple Support number, and they said to just keep trying (seems like this has happened before?). I gave them my one-minute rant on how a $25 service shouldn't really be down, or at least there should be a better SLA than "call back in 24 hours".

ITunes Match not upload tracks

Hi, I have a problem with iTunes Match.
I tried several things, including Logout and subsequent Login, convert songs to AAC but nothing; iTunes still does not upload tracks! Do you have any idea?
THANK YOU in advance!

Thanks for coming back to me Andy,
Unfortunately it appears you're experiencing the same issue that several of us on here have reported recently. At this point there isn't really anything you can try to fix the problem as it's looking increasingly likely the issue is at Apple's side. I would however recommend contacting the iTunes Support team to report the problem, the more people that report it the more likely it will get picked up sooner.
Go to https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action Select Show all Products and Services at the bottom of the page, select iTunes > iTunes Store > iTunes Match and use one of the contact options such as Chat.
I've currently got a case open with support for this and will post an update as soon as I hear anything back. Let me know how you get on.

Deleted iTunes Match Content Reappers

I am really at a loss of words at how poor the iTunes Match service has become with every "new and improved" version of iTunes. Right now, any songs that I have in iTunes Match cannot be changed or deleted. If I change the song/album Metadata in iTunes on my Mac, when iTunes Match automatically updates, all of the changes I made revert back to the original data. If I delete an album, it reappears during the next automatic iTunes Match update. I cannot figure this issue out for the life me. Apple Support is not much help either. I am aggravated and about to swear off all Apple products... Has anyone come across this issue and found a solution? It's been going on for the past 2-3 months. Thanks for the help.

Is this on an album you have purchased through iTunes or on an album you added yourself?
I think what jimzgoldfinch was stating is:
Add yourself: Normal right click delete and delete from cloud "SHOULD" work.
Purchase through iTunes: If you delete and delete from cloud, any time Apple re-syncs your "purchased" items it will dump it back in. So he was saying to go Previous Purchases in the iTunes Store where you should be able to remove it from there so it hides it from the re-sync list.
Basically if you bought it from Apple they think you always want it and will shove it back into your library.
Now if it's something you added yourself, you might make sure you haven't downloaded it to another device from the cloud, because it will see it on the other device and re-upload it as well. I've had this happen since I have both a MacBook and Windows iTunes. I downloaded it on both, deleted from MacBook and cloud, but then once my Windows machine updated it's iTunes Match...it added it back in. I had to remove it from both computers and iPhones to make sure it wasn't just sitting somewhere to be matched again.
Hope this helps

Why did iTune Match not upload all of my music?

Why do some of the songs on my phone appear as gray and not selectable to pull from the cloud? I would understand if it was whole albums that did not upload, but it is very random as to which ones are there and which ones are not. For example, I am sometimes missing 6 out of 10 songs on 1 album. So what made 4 of the songs work, but the other 6 not work? The ones that did not go to the cloud play on my computer fine, so I know they were locatable on my end. I did see that some of the songs that did not go to the cloud were pointing to the wrong folder on my computer, so I fixed those. I went ahead and started the iTunes Match process over again. I am hoping this was the right thing to do. I thought maybe the upload just failed somewhere in the middle of the process. Any assistance you can provide to me in this matter would be most helpful.

Hi Wartman73,
If some of your songs are not appearing in iTunes Match, I would first give this article a run through to see if that resolves the issue:
iTunes Store: Troubleshooting iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4054
Have a good one!
- Ari

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