Itunes match hangs up

iTunes Match hangs up....on the first Song of 1700 Songs to down/upload. Everytime i start Itunes, it fetch up my informations about my music....but it stops uploading on the first Song of 1700. Where is the Problem?
And where can i get back my money for this useless Addon?

Hi,
Read this discussion.https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5777244?tstart=0
Jim

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Over the past fortnight, iTunes Match has gone from working seamlessly, to hanging at the first step - Gathering Information about your iTunes Library. I amrunning the laters version of iTunes - Ver. 10.6.1.
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HT204406 iTunes Match hangs in step 2 at the last song

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Bob,
To your note above,
"Hi Daan,
I have the same problem. I heard from some people that just need to wait until Apple's servers are taxed less. This is due to last 19 more countries where iTunes was made available match.
Regards Bob".
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ITunes Match hangs on iPad 3 after iOS 6

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I have a solution (albiet time consuming) to iTunes match step 3 crashing

So I've been a iTunes Match subscriber for about 6 months. At first it took me a few goes of it to get it down to about only 350 songs needing to be uploaded in Step 3.... Then the REAL frustration began.... From that point forward no matter what I tried I could NEVER get past Step 3. As soon as Step 2 finished and step 3 began, iTunes would crash. So for the past 5 months I have been unable to get those 350 songs uploaded. It wouldn't even do just one then crash. I was frustrated but after looking I could do without having access too those 350 songs at all times. But then there WAS a song that I HAD to have access too and the frustration began again. I tried EVERYTHING I could find on the internet. Uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, turning Match off then on, deleting errored files (I only had 4). Playing with router settings, everything. I noticed a lot of people wondering about having music on external hard drives even which mine is. (I will say from experience if your using a USB hub to connect your external hard drives, try connecting them directly into your computers USB port to speed things up a bit). Then I started reading about people having success converting one troublesome song or two to ACC, deleting the old version, then "manually" right clicking on them and clicking "add to iCloud" My issue was that this option was NEVER available to me when I right clicked the songs in iTunes! Plus some of the 350 songs were already in ACC format. Tonight, after playing around I've found a round about way (and time consuming if your doing this for 350 songs like me, feel bad to those who have THOUSANDS) to finally get these songs to upload to iTunes Match. Here is what I did, and I REALLY hope this can help someone else.
#1. When you first open iTunes, you notice in the top/middle info window that iTunes attempts to connect to the iTunes store, AND iTunes match tries to do its thing as well. AS SOON AS YOU OPEN ITUNES, click the small little X next to the progress indicator inside that info window until ALL acivities have stopped.
#2. Make sure you have the "iCloud Status" sort turned on
#3. Sort your song list in iTunes by the iCloud Status Look down the list until you get to where all of your "waiting" songs are at
#4. Select a small managable group (10 worked best for me, more than that would sometimes cause errors and I would have to redo them)
#5. Right click on the selected group and then select "convert to ACC"
#6 DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING ELSE AFTER 'convert to ACC"
#7 Once this completes you will hear the normal "ding" that iTunes is finished
#8. The original files will still be selected with the new ACC versions below each one, not selected. Hit your delete key.(You only want to keep the newly converted ACC files) Also, EVEN IF A FILE WAS PREVIOUSLY ACC, STILL SELECT IT FOR THIS CONVERT TO ACC PROCESS!!!!! If itunes asks if you want to delete these and move to the recycle bin, do so, as you now have another copy that seems to play well with iTunes.
#9 Now you have the 10 recently converted to ACC songs... Select those ten, right click on them then the "Add to iCloud" option (which for me was the first time I had ever gotten to see it at all)
#10 iTunes Match should now begin the process of trying to match JUST THOSE SELECTED songs, then upload whatever is needed. Using this system, I HAVE YET to run across iTunes or iTunes match, hanging up, or crashing all together.
I know this is a bit time consuming, and you COULD do this just for the songs you REALLY wanted to make sure were in the Cloud if you wish. My thought was if I'm going to do it, I might as well do them all.
I REALLY hope this will help someone as I have read so many forum posts, websites, ect, with people just as frustrated as me. And it even made it more frustrating as I had seen new "solutions" posted online yet said solutions still wouldn't work for me. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment and I'll try to answer and help!

So I've been a iTunes Match subscriber for about 6 months. At first it took me a few goes of it to get it down to about only 350 songs needing to be uploaded in Step 3.... Then the REAL frustration began.... From that point forward no matter what I tried I could NEVER get past Step 3. As soon as Step 2 finished and step 3 began, iTunes would crash. So for the past 5 months I have been unable to get those 350 songs uploaded. It wouldn't even do just one then crash. I was frustrated but after looking I could do without having access too those 350 songs at all times. But then there WAS a song that I HAD to have access too and the frustration began again. I tried EVERYTHING I could find on the internet. Uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, turning Match off then on, deleting errored files (I only had 4). Playing with router settings, everything. I noticed a lot of people wondering about having music on external hard drives even which mine is. (I will say from experience if your using a USB hub to connect your external hard drives, try connecting them directly into your computers USB port to speed things up a bit). Then I started reading about people having success converting one troublesome song or two to ACC, deleting the old version, then "manually" right clicking on them and clicking "add to iCloud" My issue was that this option was NEVER available to me when I right clicked the songs in iTunes! Plus some of the 350 songs were already in ACC format. Tonight, after playing around I've found a round about way (and time consuming if your doing this for 350 songs like me, feel bad to those who have THOUSANDS) to finally get these songs to upload to iTunes Match. Here is what I did, and I REALLY hope this can help someone else.
#1. When you first open iTunes, you notice in the top/middle info window that iTunes attempts to connect to the iTunes store, AND iTunes match tries to do its thing as well. AS SOON AS YOU OPEN ITUNES, click the small little X next to the progress indicator inside that info window until ALL acivities have stopped.
#2. Make sure you have the "iCloud Status" sort turned on
#3. Sort your song list in iTunes by the iCloud Status Look down the list until you get to where all of your "waiting" songs are at
#4. Select a small managable group (10 worked best for me, more than that would sometimes cause errors and I would have to redo them)
#5. Right click on the selected group and then select "convert to ACC"
#6 DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING ELSE AFTER 'convert to ACC"
#7 Once this completes you will hear the normal "ding" that iTunes is finished
#8. The original files will still be selected with the new ACC versions below each one, not selected. Hit your delete key.(You only want to keep the newly converted ACC files) Also, EVEN IF A FILE WAS PREVIOUSLY ACC, STILL SELECT IT FOR THIS CONVERT TO ACC PROCESS!!!!! If itunes asks if you want to delete these and move to the recycle bin, do so, as you now have another copy that seems to play well with iTunes.
#9 Now you have the 10 recently converted to ACC songs... Select those ten, right click on them then the "Add to iCloud" option (which for me was the first time I had ever gotten to see it at all)
#10 iTunes Match should now begin the process of trying to match JUST THOSE SELECTED songs, then upload whatever is needed. Using this system, I HAVE YET to run across iTunes or iTunes match, hanging up, or crashing all together.
I know this is a bit time consuming, and you COULD do this just for the songs you REALLY wanted to make sure were in the Cloud if you wish. My thought was if I'm going to do it, I might as well do them all.
I REALLY hope this will help someone as I have read so many forum posts, websites, ect, with people just as frustrated as me. And it even made it more frustrating as I had seen new "solutions" posted online yet said solutions still wouldn't work for me. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment and I'll try to answer and help!

ITunes hang due to iTunes Match

My iTune hang every turn on iTunes Match.
If I turn it on, I can't download/update large application or update all. I have to update one by one and only small one that's success (<100 MB).
iTunes Match also not working on my MBP. If I download nothin but just turn on iTunes Match, after a while my iTunes will also hang. So, my songs are purchased from iTunes store via iDevices will also not be updated on my MBP.
Right now I have to turn iTunes Match off then I can use iTunes normally. Download or any update are working fine.
Error is below and I have no idea what to do. Actually the error show much longer than I paste it here If you have any suggestion, kindly tell me.
Thank you very much
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Date/Time:       2015-03-20 22:33:26 +0900
OS Version:      10.10.2 (Build 14C1514)
Architecture:    x86_64h
Report Version: 21
Command:         iTunes
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Version:         12.1 (12.1.0.50)
Build Version:   1
Project Name:    iTunes
Source Version: 1200012001000050
Parent:          launchd [1]
PID:             864
Event:           hang
Duration:        1.00s (process was unresponsive for 35 seconds before sampling)
Steps:           11 (100ms sampling interval)
Hardware model: MacBookPro11,3
Active cpus:     8
Fan speed:       2159 rpm
Timeline format: stacks are sorted chronologically
Use -i and -heavy to re-report with count sorting
Heaviest stack for the main thread of the target process:
11 ??? (iTunes + 10548) [0x1087f9934]
11 ??? (iTunes + 8074918) [0x108faa6a6]
11 -[NSApplication run] + 594 (AppKit + 95635) [0x7fff91b71593]
11 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 194 (AppKit + 145200) [0x7fff91b7d730]
11 _DPSNextEvent + 964 (AppKit + 147329) [0x7fff91b7df81]
11 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71 (HIToolbox + 190123) [0x7fff98d8c6ab]
11 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 431 (HIToolbox + 190570) [0x7fff98d8c86a]
11 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235 (HIToolbox + 191215) [0x7fff98d8caef]
11 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296 (CoreFoundation + 464984) [0x7fff8c4ce858]
11 __CFRunLoopRun + 927 (CoreFoundation + 466495) [0x7fff8c4cee3f]
11 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 269 (CoreFoundation + 469005) [0x7fff8c4cf80d]
11 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 17 (CoreFoundation + 525953) [0x7fff8c4dd681]
11 ??? (iTunes + 8800346) [0x10905b85a]
11 ??? (iTunes + 8800148) [0x10905b794]
11 ??? (iTunes + 8797140) [0x10905abd4]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7130737) [0x108ec3e71]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7171065) [0x108ecdbf9]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7173238) [0x108ece476]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7218926) [0x108ed96ee]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7229095) [0x108edbea7]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7220255) [0x108ed9c1f]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7223076) [0x108eda724]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7225008) [0x108edaeb0]
11 ??? (iTunes + 14405745) [0x1095b4071]
11 ??? (iTunes + 14405134) [0x1095b3e0e]
11 ??? (iTunes + 14022490) [0x10955675a]
11 ??? (iTunes + 14024146) [0x109556dd2]
11 ??? (iTunes + 14053714) [0x10955e152]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7965285) [0x108f8fa65]
11 ??? (iTunes + 7964397) [0x108f8f6ed]
11 ??? (iTunes + 3570058) [0x108b5e98a]
11 FSDeleteObject + 24 (CarbonCore + 417815) [0x7fff8fa96017]
11 PBRemoveObjectInternal(FSRefParam*, unsigned char) + 190 (CarbonCore + 429124) [0x7fff8fa98c44]
11 BasicDelete(FSMount*, unsigned int, char const*, unsigned char, unsigned char) + 43 (CarbonCore + 342669) [0x7fff8fa83a8d]
11 FSMount::remove(unsigned int, char const*, unsigned int) + 374 (CarbonCore + 829746) [0x7fff8fafa932]
11 FileIDTreeBeginTransaction + 235 (CarbonCore + 222989) [0x7fff8fa6670d]
11 FileIDTreeBeginTransactionBridge + 453 (CarbonCore + 218279) [0x7fff8fa654a7]
11 usleep + 54 (libsystem_c.dylib + 519760) [0x7fff8e6c9e50]
11 __semwait_signal + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib + 91274) [0x7fff90d5148a]
*11 semaphore_wait_continue + 0 (kernel + 1373536) [0xffffff800034f560]
=============================================================

Hi judysings
Thanks for your help.
I tried to follow for each topic from your link. Actually it doesn't contain any topic about uploading issue.
After I turn on my iTunes Match again, the same problem appears. My iTunes hang again after iTunes Match status bar updating in a while.
Before I turned on, I've check and never seen any duplicated except from different albums.
Actually, this problem happened since a few days ago that iTunes down for the whole world area. So, my iTunes database most likely the same even before and after it down. My one seems not fully recovered.
Anyway. Thank you very much

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When I start iTunes, everything is fine. When iTunes Match starts checking my library and the cloud, iTunes then hangs and I have to force quit. If I turn off WiFi, I can prevent iTunes Match from starting up and use iTunes and sync iDevices fine. My Library seems to be fine, but if I turn on WiFi again, iTunes Match starts connecting and again iTunes crashes. I have tried to turn off iTunes Match, but iTunes Match has to connect before it will let me turn it off, and connecting is what is crashing iTunes.
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ITunes match completes step 1 and hangs on step 2

Up until the evening of June 10th, Itunes match has worked great. Nothing new that I can think of but it will no longer comiplete the matching process, completes step 1 and hangs on step 2 for hours and hours.
Reboot
turn off Itunes match and turn back on
turn off Genious and turn back on.
Nothing has worked so far.
Running Mavericks on a 2009 Imac with latest version of Itunes. Cant figure out how to get help as Itunes match is not listed as an option for support just Itunes and The Itunes store.
sure could use some advice that does not include trashing my library.
I have about 6,000 tracks in my Match library.
Rick

Hi. We have another thread going on this topic here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/26083187#26083187
Lots of people are having this same issue.

HT204406 My iphone 4s hangs in itunes match

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I have:
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I have:
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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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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

ITunes match is keeping my phone from syncing.

So I've been stumped the past couple days as to why my phone would not sync.
It would get stuck at the "Waiting for sync to start"
Then I would get some error about how the Sync couldn't start.
So I restore my phone. Set up as new phone hoping this would fix the problem.
It did, restoring and setting up as new phone allowed me to sync my phone.
So I sync a couple of my apps to my phone and decide to use my phone for a while.
Turn on iTunes match on my phone so I can hear some of my music.
Then I decide to sync more apps to my phone that I had forgotten earlier when I was Syncing my phone.
And no luck. Stuck back at "Waiting for sync to sart"
This has happened a couple times now, I've had to restore multiple times.
Everything is up to date, my iPhone is up to date, so is iTunes.
My phone syncs perfectly fine until I turn iTunes match on via my iPhone.
THIS IS REALLY ANNOYING.
Anyone have a solution?
Or having the same problem?

Same deal, seemingly. iPhone 4S 64GB, Lion, iTunes 10.5.3, iTunes Match On (i.e., all the latest, but nothing beta).
What I've just found strong evidence of is a connection between this "waiting for sync to start" issue and the whole "loads of empty playlists" issue. Whether this ties in to the faux-over-capacity issue I don't know, but I've got that bug too.
Here's the lowdown:
Noticed my capacity / over-capacity fluctuating awhile ago, but it always seemed to sort itself out. It still goes back and forth, but now I've noticed I just hang on "Waiting for sync to start." Actually, it's been doing that for a few weeks I think, but I wasn't paying close attention since all I cared about syncing during that period was getting music onto the phone, which iTunes Match managed to handle in its own ham-fisted, not-ready-for-prime-time way.
Just a minute ago, though, I looked at the iPhone's "iTunes Wi-Fi Sync" info page (wi-fi sync is off; iCloud sync has been long on, and seems to do its thing nicely in the background; last time 4am this morning). Guess what? Last direct iPhone to iTunes sync was on 20 January 2012. And guess what that corresponds to? It was the last sync before I created a playlist on the iPhone that subsequently spawned 32,000 blank playlists of the same name (I created the problem playlist whilst staying at a hotel with no Wi-Fi; a lack/breach in solid internet connection has been linked to the cause of this problem, according to other forums).
Side note: I used a script someone published to delete all these blank playlists. It took about a day to do it. And it worked, insofar as all the blank lists disappeared from the Mac version of iTunes (they stayed on the iPhone, alas, or some did -- it's impossible to gauge the quantity of them). Alas, about 2,000 of them re-appeared this morning on the Mac iTunes, but running the script deleted them within 30 seconds; they're still on the phone as far as I can tell.
Anyway, I might wait for iOS 5.1 or go ahead and RESET ALL SETTINGS (as was suggested on another thread) and restore from iCloud backup (possibly chancing it by going with iOS 5.1 beta 3 while I'm at it). I've never tried restoring from iCloud before, but imagine it "might be some time" as the Brits facetiously say, especially here in Outer Mongolia with good but not brilliant internet speeds.

HT204406 how do I get the playlists in Itunes match to show on my Iphone

I've been reading through all the articles and trying as many solutions as people have offered with no results. Itunes Playlists are showing on my macbook and my Imac, but I cannot edit which playlists are showing on my Iphone 4S, I connected it by USB to see if I could edit the playlists selected there but there was no way to do that as it says Itunes Match is on, and it's only placing copies of purchased/recently added playlists onto my phone.
People had mentioned in earlier posts, adding and removing computers, authorizing and deauthorizing, editing the playlists titles, deleting songs from playlists, turning phone on and off, toggling on and off on Itunes Match, NOTHING IS WORKING! I'm a dance teacher and I need my playlists, this is making my life very very difficult and I'm incredibly frusterated that instead of Paying for a service that was supposed to help my music problems I have paid for a service that has simply created a brand new one. I even paid for an extra 10 GB of Icloud space to see if that changed anything and it didn't so now I'm up to 40$ in annual charges all for something that is so far absolutely useless to me. PLEASE HELP! There's not even a helpline on apple phone support for itunes, or itunes match it simply redirects me to the online forums. I"M DESPERATE for your help!!

I did see this yes, I also spent about 20 minutes on the phone finally with a technical support person at Apple who told me to restart and reset my phone which got rid of the few playlists I'd somehow managed to keep on my phone, and also got me off his back because I had to hang up with him to do so....useless.

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