ITunes Match & multiple music libraries

As you can see from my products list below, I have a history of devices -- all with iTunes' libraries connected by the same login of my @mac eddress. As I added a new device, it became my default iTunes library. Syncing & ripping my CDs between the last to the newest device has been spotty, so iTunes, iCloud & iTunes Match make me positively giddy.
Guess I'm still fuzzy on how iTunes Match in particular will work. Do I need to use the device containing the bulk of my ripped music as the library scanned? If that device happens to be an iPod classic 3, do I need to sync it to my iTunes library using one of my newer devices before signing up for iTunes Match? Unfortunately, I'm betting I won't have enough disk space on a single newer device to do this....
What's the most efficient way of prepping for iTunes Match & iCloud? Thanks!
And, thank you, Steve. This world has become much less interesting, but I wish you restful peace.

I see. That makes more sense to me. This link might also help you understand it better: http://www.apple.com/itunes/whats-new/
Basically, what iTunes Match will do is scan your iTunes library and when it finds non-purchased music that is already on the iTunes Store it will be added to your iTunes in the Cloud; any non-purchased muisc that is not in the Store will then be uploaded to your iCloud account. Up to 25,000 tracks, I think. This will allow you to download your purchased and non-purchased music to any iDevice or computer that is logged in with an AppleID.
Keep in mind iTunes Match is not a streaming service. It does physically download the files to your iDevice even though they may start playing automatically (depending on network speeds) the files are still being downloaded to your iDevice.
Make more sense?

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ITunes Match, multiple users/libraries

I've poked around a bit, and can't find a clean answer to my question.
My situation is three users, a couple of shared devices, and several ipods/iphones. To this point, we have used one apple id for everything. But each user has pretty specific tastes, so three fairly divergent music libraries. I want each user to be able to manage their library in the cloud most effectively without merging. iTunes Match, however, doesn't differentiate by library. If I turn it on for everyone, everyone's music gets mashed together, including play counts and playlists.
My next solution was to just give everyone their own apple id, and pay for each person to have music match. However, when I tried this last night, as I activated a new id, I was told my computer was already associated with an Apple ID, and that ID would be locked out for 90 days in terms of iTM.
My conclusion is that there is no way to have multiple users manage their libraries independently using iTunes Match. Is this correct? Does anyone know of anyone work arounds? Am I missing a setting somewhere?
Thanks

Each user on each computer will have to set iTUnes to use the external as the library location.
Next depends on what you want to do. Move all files to external then using iTunes add the files to iTunes library again. Empty library in iTunes then add files to library recreating library from scratch.
All users will have to maintain each library separately even though all files will be in same place and accessible to all users. When one person adds something to their own library the other ones will not know it. If someone else wants those files also then they will have to use add folder or add file option to add the files to their own library. It should not duplicate the files on the drive but is sometimes does when you do this. Deleting files or renaming them can be problematic if one user deleted a file another user has in library it will affect both. Podcasts are an exception, these will always duplicate if multiple users subscribe. This allows individual management of episodes.

Itunes match replacing music libraries

does it actually do that?
an article in Macworld said that it did not

It does and it doesn't. =)
If you have music on your phone and you turn on iTunes Match on your phone, any songs that have not been uploaded to the iCloud will be removed. But any songs that are already in iCloud will remain on your phone as they were, rather than being deleted and re-downloaded again.

Multiple Music Libraries on One iDevice

I currently use iTunes to manage my music on my iMac and Macbook. I have my Electronic Music seperated into its own library for various reasons. As a DJ it's way easier to manage that way rather than having to dig through Led Zeppelin and The Beatles and all my other regular music.
To do this I use the "hold Option button while opening iTunes" which allows me to choose what library I'm trying to access.
What I want is to be able to sync these multiple music libraries onto my iPhone AND KEEP THEM SEPERATE.
I really don't want to have to merge them together to get all of the music onto my iPhone. It's much more conveinient for them to be seperated. Right now I sync my electronic music to my iPod and my 'regular' music to my iPhone, but it's sort of redudant to be carrying around two devices when this is literally just a software patch away from iTunes being able to do it. (Wake up Apple)
So I guess what I'm asking is if there are any thrid party apps that allow one to do this.

If you use manual syncing, you can sync items from more than one iTunes library to your iPod. (You can sync iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad with only one iTunes library.) When manually managing content, you can add content from multiple libraries to your iPod or iPad. Even when manually managing music, some content may be available from only one library at time. This includes all content on iPhone and video content on iPod and iPad. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12113 and http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1202
As for multiple libraries you can put in a request to Apple but I would not wait for it. (Hint: the big media companies do not want people syncing all their buddies' libraries to each others iPods, and who controls distribution of media to the company that designs iTunes?)
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Both myself and my wife have 2 separate iTunes accounts, I subscribe to iTunes Match. Music purchased on my wife's account appear on our computers iTunes library but my iPad cannot access the music she has purchased. Is there any way to overcome this

Both myself and my wife have 2 separate iTunes accounts, I subscribe to iTunes Match. Music purchased on my wife's account appear on our computer iTunes library but my iPad cannot access the music she has purchased. Is there any way to overcome this

The only way to do what you want is to log into your wife's iTunes Store account on your iPad. Doing this will lock you out of your account for 90 days.

After subscribing to iTunes match the music I had uploaded from my cd's is gone . How do I get it back?

After subscribing to iTunes match the music I had uploaded from my cd's is gone . How do I get it back?

Did iTunes match complete its scan of your iTunes library on your computer? Do you have a back up on an ext HD?
I Suggest that you read this Subscribing to iTunes from an iOS device.
JIm

How does iTunes match handle music that isn't available in iTunes?

How does iTunes match handle music that isn't available in iTunes?

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HT204074 How does iTunes match handle music that isn't available in iTunes?

How does iTunes match handle music that isn't available in iTunes?

Music in your iTunes library that isn't available at the iTunes Store is uploaded to your iCloud account.

HT204406 iTunes Match replacing music with censored versions

Has there been a solution found for iTunes Match replacing music with censored versions? Everything I read has been old and no real solutions. This was unexpected and an unacceptable result of me paying for a service. At minimum there should be a question prompting the user to agree to censored replacements or the use of original music if a match cannot be found. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help and sorry if this is duplicated info.

You're files are not gone. They are still on the HDD of your computer. Apparently, at some point you've created a new, empty iTunes library. Go to ~/Music and tell us what folders are there. At minimum there will be a folder named "iTunes" where all your files will be.
If you have backups, you can restore the iTunes library files from immediately before the problem happened and be back to pretty close to where you were.

ITunes match for two libraries on one computer

Whenever I try to enable iTunes Match in the latest iTunes beta, it says "This computer is already associated with an Apple ID." I cannot proceed with scanning my library. In the other account, with their Apple ID, it works.
There are two user accounts on our Mac. Does this mean that iTunes Match is linked to the device itself, and not the unique Apple IDs/user accounts? This means in a family that shares a computer, with unique and separate iTunes libraries within each user account, only one person in the family can use iTunes Match (but strangely, both can pay for it).
Any ideas?

I wonder if the following would work...
For both accounts and itunes libraries, use the same apple id.   This should work on the same machine.
Unfortunately, that means the libraries between the two accounts would 'merge' oncd match does its thing and be the same under that one id in the cloud.
For purchases, one of the accounts would have to sign in with their ID in the apple store which would log them out of match. Logging out of match means you only have access to the files you have downloaded from the cloud or where already in the library.    I think your purchased music would be fine and once downloaded to the library, when you log back into match would be picked up and placed in the iCloud library.
From what I can guess, you would have to be stuck with one shared library and this may not be what you want.
They didn't really make match to be a shared among accounts and instead locked it to the machine - probably because of the music licenses. With purchased/drm music and video thouugh, they can be shared across 5 appleid's. Very confusing. You have 10 devices on one id for match and auto/redownload of purcahses and you have 5 appleid's you can share content with.
I've got 4 machines, 5 apple id's, and one match account so far. Only two machines are using match so far (mine and a server), and just using homesharing for the others for now.   Maybe when I'm bored I'll try to see if there is a way to activate match on all the other machines and also work with the other non-match Apple ID's. In a way, home sharing may be easier for the users of those ID's to pull from the master library matched from the server.

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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ITunes Match: No music showing up on my iPhone

Hi!
I have several Problems with iTunes Match on PC (on iTunes 10.5.2.11) and with my iPhone 4 (iOS 5.0.1). I activated iTunes Match to test it. And it loaded all my music to the Cloud. I could see them on my iPhone 4 too. But then I saw that iCloud doesn't correct ID3 Tags. So i corrected them myself (my collection isn't tagged good actually). I deleted all songs from the iTunes list and readded it.
I deactivated iTunes Match an reactivated it. And it asked me to add my PC to the iCloud. I said "yes". But then I had every song double in the Cloud - one bad tagged and one right tagged.
So I ordered the list that I only saw the songs in the Cloud (with the Download Symbol). I deleted them. So everything looks fine on my Main PC. But on another PC connected to the Cloud I still see the double amount of songs until now. It doesn't change.
And the worst: My iPhone doesn't show up my music but only 3 of my 9.000 songs from only one interpret. I don't know why this interpret (Papa roach).
I don't know what to do.
Christoph

Got it fixed.
I wandered down to the Apple store. The nice young man had several theories, all wrong, as to what might cause this. I had with me my iPad, my iPhone, and my PC. I never had to use the PC.
Eventually, the nice young man signed me out to the Apple store, did a hard reset on the iPad, and had me sign back in to the Apple store. Nothing useful happened. He then went away to consult with the other nice young men. Or to light incense. Or to find a toad. He never said.
While he was away I noticed that iTunes Match had, in all the excitement, been turned off.
I turned it back on. About a minute (that's a long time), the Music on the iPad started to re-appear.
Problem's solved. The nice young man is very proud of himself.
One wonders whether turning Match off, maybe exiting Music, then turning Match back on might have been worthwhile. Nahhhhhhhhhhh. I'll wager you need incense. Or a toad.
Leonardo

How do I play my iTunes music on my iPad using WiFi and iTunes match (my music is stored in the cloud).

How do i play my iTunes music on my iPad using WiFi and iTunes match? I don't want to download my music to my iPad.

But that's what I don't want to do. I think I must have misunderstood what was possible with iTunes Match and the cloud. I had thought I would be able to play my music directly from the cloud using WiFi. I didn't think I would have to download it from the cloud to play it on my iPad. I store it in the cloud because I don't have enough storage space on my iPad -- I can't download all my music because I run out of storage space. If iTunes Match doesn't allow you to play the music FROM THE CLOUD, but instead only allows you to DOWNLOAD IT FROM THE CLOUD TO YOUR IPAD TO PLAY, then it's not serving the purpose I thought it would. What's the point of storing it in the cloud if you have to download it to play it?
The only way I could imagine it working for me is if it possible to only download particular albums or songs. Or does your whole library have to be downloaded?

Itunes match - No music in itunes match and icloud but in my iphone still appear.

I have Itunes match acoount,If I already delete all my music from itunes and icloud, why still appear music in my iphone?, Itunes match is enable.

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HT4914 Will iTunes Match upload music from my iPhone?

Thanks!

No, you can only subscribe to iTunes Match and upload music to it from a computer's iTunes - turning 'on' iTunes Match on a phone will, I think, remove your current music from it

ITunes Match & multiple music libraries

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