ITunes Match wants to realce my library by a empty new library

I am trying to add my iTunes Mac to a new Mac, but when I turn on iTM it says that it will realce my library with the new Macs library. I can only accept or cancel.. Please help me...

The behavior you describe is not what happens in iTunes on a computer. What you describe is the behavior on an iOS device and it is expected.

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HT4914 Can I use iTunes Match to transfer music from an iPhone4 to a new iPhone5s? I'm traveling without my laptop!

Can I use iTunes Match to transfer music from an iPhone4 to a new iPhone5s? I'm traveling without my laptop!
- Music was purchased outside of iTunes store
- On a vacation
- iPhone 4 has all my music
- No access to iTunes
- Want to buy a new iPhone 5s on vacation but this is holding me back

Honestly, I've never used iTunes Match.
Keep in mind that iTunes Match is only for music, any other media content would not be affected.
Also, pictures synced to the device from a computer will not be moved over unless the new device is restored from a backup on that computer.
Personaly, unless the current iPhone was damaged or otherwise acting as if on it's last leg, I'd wait. There may be better options in 3 months.

HT4914 I have an iTunes library of some 18k tracks. If I subscribe to iTunes Match, can I delete my library from the pc hard drive and then download my entire collection back at the higher bit rate of 256?

I would like to improve the quality of my iTunes library, most of which were ripped at the old 'higher quality' setting and not lossless.
I would consider subscribing to the iTunes Match programme if I would later be able to download my music back on to my PC at the improved higher bit rate stated.
Is there a problem with this?

In iPhoto, Select All the Photos you want to move... Then goto > File > Export >
Choose the settings as seen here
Click Export and select your External Drive
Best to create a Folder to put them in... and away you go...

How do I get iTunes Match to upload my music library from my external hard drive? It only got some of the music and not a lot of it at that.

I'm trying iTunes Match and not having a great time of it so far. It only got a fraction of my music from my music library. I contacted support and they told me that it would recognize my external hard drive and take all of the music. My collection is all from CDs with the exception of a few from iTunes. I just want more of my collection to be available.
Can anyone help with that

The issue is not related to the external drive. iTunes Match has difficulties matching tracks ripped fom CDs because they may differ slightly from the versions on sale in iTunes. You can try the match again. Otherwise do a search of this forum. There are already many discussions on this subject here that may help you.

ITunes match and my household music library

I'm looking for ideas / tips here, as to what other people do.
My family shares the music library on 1 MB Pro. So there are a lot of songs in the music library that 1 person might like, but the rest do not. But I notice that all the music library's songs are now on my iPhone via the cloud. So when I shuffle, I'm getting all the songs from the music library to play, including those of my 7-tr old girl, ha.
Prior to signing up for iTunes match I only had on my iphone the 600 or so songs that I really enjoyed, and would shuffle thru those. I'm assuming the obvious suggestion will be to create a playlist of those same songs and then just shuffle that list. Any other ideas or suggestions are also appreciated.
Thanks

Out of interest, how many songs are we talking about that you want excluded?
I have another possible solution if there aren't too many.

ITunes match has destroyed my music library. Help!

So basically several years ago I bought an external hard drive to combat low storage space on my laptop, and moved all my iTunes files to there. However, the hard drive is broken, so most of my music could only actually be played on my iPod, the only songs I could play from my laptop were ones which had their files saved on to the laptop itself. I saw about itunes match and thought that would enable me to save songs from my iPod on to the cloud, thus allowing me to access all my songs from my laptop too. However, instead my ipod has now also lost all the songs that were saved to my hard drive, and only has the few songs I had saved to my iPod. So right now it seems I've paid £21 for the privilege of losing the vast majority of my music library. Is there anything I can do about this?
On a side note, this issue has made me realise how terrible and counter-intuitive apple tech support is.

Sorry to here about your problem. I'm afraid that there is nothing you can do to recover your lost music. Itunes match works by scanning your iTunes library on your computer not your ipod.
Possibly, you could see if you can get someone to recover the music from your ext hard drive.
jim

ITunes Match is syncing my music library using 3G but I have the option switched off.

Hi,
I have found a problem syncing my music using iTunes Match and my iPhone has used 2GB of my data plan in a day. The steps to reproduce the problem are:
Precondition: iPhone is using iTunes Match and has a list a few songs in the cloud without syncing.
Steps:
Switch on 3G connections in the settings. (Settings > General > Mobile data > Mobile data & 3G ON)
Start syncing a list of music.
Switch off the option to use data plan to sync music (Settings > Music > Use data plan > OFF)
Result: iPhone continues downloading all the songs of the list using my data plan.
Expected result: iPhone stops syncing the music because there is only a 3G connection and the option is switched off.
This is why I would like to make a complaint to Apple. How can I do it?
Thanks.

Everything that is on your device should be in your library too. If that is not the case then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device. See also Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy.
Once you have secured your content you can work on resolving the sync issue.
When the media on the device won't update as expected during a sync the method that usually works is this:
Export the contents of the camera roll. (You should do this routinely anyway.)
Backup the device, unless you have a recent backup that you would prefer to restore.
Restore as a new device. (The general restore process doesn't seem to clear things out before reloading, so there can be issues with missing artwork or incorrect capacity calculations.)
Restore the chosen backup.
In some cases it might pay to use the recovery mode method given in HT201263: If you can't update or restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch at step 3 to ensure that a device has been completely reset before reloading your content.
tt2

ITunes match has wrecked my music library!

So here's the scenario. I have just under 25,000 songs in my iTunes library. I also have a subscription to iTunes Match and so far it has worked perfectly until around 48 hours ago.
For no reason I can work the metadata for my library has changed in the cloud and those changes have been pulled down to my Macbook Air (the only place I have match turned on). I now have around 10,000 songs that have a blank album title and all list the same artist (not anyone who appears in my library!), they still have the correct track names, artwork, track and disc numbers.
To check it was actually incorrect in the cloud I enabled match on my iPad and that shows the same, incorrect, results.
So here's my dilemma, I somehow need to get the cloud version to roll back to around 48 hours ago.
I have a backup of my library file (but not the actual library), if I replace the library file I get back all the correct data however now those 10,000 songs get a file not located error as my library was set to keep organised! When I then use locate it replaces the correct data with the incorrect data!

Thanks for that Michael. Unfortunately the problem seems to be with the copy in the cloud. If I turn on match on my iPad I see the same, incorrectly labelled, library. I did actually try deleting the entire local library and redownloaded but it's made no difference.
It seems something has happened to the cloud copy that has corrupted a lot of the metadata so if I can't roll back the cloud version somehow I have a big problem!
I have just under 8,000 tracks that have been affected, of those around half are sat on my iPod with the correct metadata but I don't think there's anyway to recover that back into iTunes.

ITunes Match indicates more songs than Library

Updating iTunes Match says "2821 songs are now available in iCloud", however, my library says 2820. This occurs w/ 3 separate computers (Win7 desktop and laptop, and a MacBook Air running OS X Lion) all synced to the same iTunes Match account. I know it's only a variance of 1 track, but has anyone else run into something similar? Any way to manage just the music in iCloud?

iTunes Match if only matched with a single library can only contain upto the number of Songs in that single library - clearly if it has access to more than one library it is soon going to contain more Songs than any individual library.

Does iTunes Match eliminate need for storing library on my iPad?

I have an iPad (3), and a subscription to iTunes Match. My iPad (16GB) is almost out of room, the vast majority of the space being ocupied by 9.8 GB of Music. I assume that is because many tunes are being stored on the iPad, even though I don't need them to be there. How do I get all that music off the iPad, freeing up space for other things. I understand that I'll need to have a wi-fi or data plan (god forbid!) to acces my music in the Cloud, so all I really want to do is not store so much music locally. Thanks.

LoonyTunes,
Yes, this is the way I have my iPad set up. I removed all the music from the iPad flash memory, thereby freeing up a whole ton of memory for other more important apps like games. My iTunes account is connected to my iTunes match, so every song is accessible. Keep in mind, when you want to listen to a song, it must be downloaded. As you do this, memory will be used, so it's important to keep track of how many songs you have downloaded. It is easy to delete the songs, and download them again from the cloud if necessary. Canava is wrong when he says music is streamed to your iPad. It is streamed on OSX devices, but downloaded on iOS devices like your iPad and iPhone.

HT4915 iTunes Match not updating Changes from Library and reverting to original data WHYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!?

How do I keep iTunes Match from De-Organizing my music? I have spent hours organizing my music ratings, info, and deleting duplicates only to quit iTunes and find out that it reverts back to the original when it starts up and syncs with Match. It first de-organized hours worth of my time. Then I tried it again with iTunes match off only to find out that once you turn it on it de-organizes it again!! I have iTunes match turned off on all my devices. HELP!!

Oh let me elaborate some more as my frustration kept me from being clear. I updated my library (which is of significant size) with different ratings, genre and deletion of duplicate songs. While iTunes Match was on. I closed the ITunes program and, later once I re-opened it it asked if it connect to the internet like usual and right in front of my eyes reverted what I had updated back to before I updated it.
I never had this issue before except for when I first upgraded my macbook and copied the music files straight from the iTunes folder from a backup disk which did not save any of my ratings.
I then modified a couple of songs again, closed the I-Tunes application, opened it again, and saw it revert it again.
I turned iTunes Match off on all my devices and modified some songs, restarted iTunes and the changes stayed.
Something with the "Cloud" is not allowing these changes to remain permanent. Once a change is made to a file it is timestamped right? So why is the cloud and computer not following the latest timestamp?
I have finished organizing a sizable amount of music and am now worried about turning Match on again in fear that it will screw up my entire library.
I do this about once every 5 years or so where I spend a lot of time organizing my music, photos, etc... I just wish that for once I would have technology that wouldn't make it a nightmare.
Side note: I am bilingual and recently changed my computer language from English to Portuguese. So iTunes thinks its totally cool to change the genre of only the songs that are played to the portuguese spelling of the genre, which practically duplicates all my genre. Thats pretty annoying. Just leave the freaking music metadata language alone dudes if the artist speaks english the metadata should be in english in my opinion. Or at least have this auto language update as an option under preferences one could opt out of.

HT5085 Itunes Match is constantly scanning my library

I recently updated my Itunes, now itunes match is constantly running, as i'm listening to music, it constantly pops up with the 3 steps, gathering, matching and uploading... For some reason it gets to uploading artwork and remaining songs, then after about 5 minutes starts all over again.
I have even stopped using the computer and came back this morning, Itunes match is still running, the thing is I can't tell which songs its getting stuck on so I can just remove them, then reimport them from the cd's.
I have ran the disk utility to check for errors on my HDD, even verified and repaired just in case, no errors were found.

Hello i have the same problem. Have you resolved the problem, if so how did you do it?

ITunes Match won't recognize my MBA equipped with a new SSD

Hi,
Here's the situation: I replaced the SSD in my late 2010 MBA to add storage space. Everything went perfectly well and I have been using it for weeks, no problem whatsoever with any of my iCould stuff - calednar entries, contacts etc. as everything was transferred over by making a back-up of the old SSD onto the new one and re-instlaling Mavericks to the new one.
I also have been using iTunes Match for years and love it: ATV, IOS devices are all connected and work perfectly. Until I tried using iTunes Match on the MBA equipped with the new SSD. Note that my iTunes music (not the library file) sits in an external drive connected to my Home network which I don't currentl have access to. That's also teh reason why I signed up for Match: once synced, I didn't have to connect to tht drive and could travel while still having access to all my music.
The library only sees two local songs that were downloaded recenrly after I purchased them on the iTunes Store. I'm still using the same Apple ID nothing changed, but iTunes isn't showing any of my iTunes Match songs in there. I checked Match had been turned on (it is), I checked that I didn't max out on the number of devices (I haven't) and even checked availability of iTunes Match in other countries (temporarily in France), but otherwise residing in the US.
So now, when I try to "add this computer" to iTunes Match, it gives me the following error:
Only one library can be matched at a time. If you continue, the other iTunes Match session will be stopped and this computer's library will be matched instead.
=> Seeing that the "old" library and the "new" one technically come from the same Mac (only now it has a new SSD drive), I'm at a loss and scared to have all of my previously synced/matched songs deleted from itunes Match if I only sync the two local files that were just downloaded/purchased. <=
Would appreciate any help or suggestions please.
Thank you in advance!

wandererny wrote:
Only one library can be matched at a time. If you continue, the other iTunes Match session will be stopped and this computer's library will be matched instead.
Hi,
You often get this message when match thinks that you already have a match in progess on another computer.
If you are happy that all your music is on your new hard drive (or if it is only in the cloud), you should select "this computer".
Jim

Cannot get itunes match to stay in the on position...new iPhone 5...help!

just got a new iPhone 5. iTunes Match has worked perfectly on all my devices until now.
When I turn iTunes Match on in setting, it shows to be on. However, if I back out of that menu and look at it again, it remains off. Quite frustrating, as I cannot seem to get it to work on my great new phone! Any help would be appreciated!

never mind...just needed to restart the phone...seems to be working now...

TS4124 how can i manually add songs to itunes match ? I currently only have room for 1500 new songs but my library has 35000 songs. can i select the new music i want to add?

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What do you mean by:
roberthgh wrote:
I currently have room for 1500 songs
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ITunes Match wants to realce my library by a empty new library

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