ITunes Match - who keeps originals?

If I subscribe iTunes Match, do I keep originals of my songs in my imac, or they will be deleted from it and moved to cloud?

You keep the originals unless you choose to delete them (I wouldn't do that.) Your tracks are not "moved" to the cloud. Match stores references to tracks that are already available from iTunes. Tracks not found are "copied" from your computer to the cloud.

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  • How can I delete a song from iCloud / iTunes Match, but keep it on my Mac?

    How can I delete a song from iCloud / iTunes Match, but keep it on my Mac?
    I subscribed to iTunes Match a few weeks ago and my entire library was uploaded.  I do not want all of my library in the Cloud, especially given that there is a space/song limitation.  Any help is appreciated.
    Thanks!

    Apologies Brandon, we have moved on somewhat from your original question.
    What I have done is effectively used Michael's idea. I'll try to explain a little further.
    You can run iTunes match on up to 5 computers, and you can edit the iCloud library on any of them. Michael's idea works on the basis that, whilst you can edit the iTunes library, you can't remove songs from other computers.
    I have basically the same setup as you, but I also have a MacBook Air, which is running iTunes Match but without any music downloaded so it all streams.
    I added the songs on my main library, which then added them to the cloud. When they appeared on my MacBook I deleted them straight away. As there was no local copy I was asked if I wanted to delete them from the cloud, and I said yes. When I went back to my main computer I found that, as expected, they were still there, but the iCloud status is "removed". They are therefore on my library but not in iCloud.
    Since then I have run match updates a couple of times and there is no sign as yet that it will try to add them back to the cloud. It's too early to say that this is a definate answer to your problem, but it looks very hopeful.
    Our other discussions have moved onto the 25,000 son limit, which I note from your comment you may also be interested in. Watch this space.
    If you don't have access to a second computer to run the other library on then look back at Michael's post where he explains how to set it up on your main computer.
    Hope that clarifies a bit.

  • TS4009 itunes match i keep getting error message 4002

    itunes match i keep getting error message 4002

    For iTunes Match, try posting at their forum:
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_match
    Also, look at the right panel (here) under "More like this", there are many links to other posts from users with error 4004.

  • HT4914 Can I use iTunes Match to keep other files like the way dropbox does ?

    Can I use iTunes Match to keep other files like the way dropbox does ?

    iTunes Match is currently only for music

  • Itunes Match upload keeps failing

    Hey there,
    I signed up for iTunes Match yesterday and it's matched up most of my library but it's just started running the Step 3 "Uploading Artwork And Remaning Songs" FOR THE THIRD TIME - it gets all the way through the process then I turn around ten minutes later and the **** thing has started the whole process again. Any ideas?
    Cheers
    Rob

    Rob,
    I posted on a similar topic, you are lucky if it takes 10 minutes to get to the point where it crashes, due to the size of my library mine takes around 2 hours, and I have had to restart it hundreds of time and been at it for 4 months now I think. Each time an update for itunes is available I hopefully install it, problem not fixed as yet, I live in hope. itunes 11 was in my opinion a downgrade, features removed, can't see where apple are going with this, downhill mostly.
    Only solution I have found so far is sheer persistence, just keep on restarting it, until eventually you get all your songs uploaded. There are some songs at the top of the list which dont have an itunes match/cloud status but I will deal with those once uploads have finished.
    From what I've read elsewhere the crashing *may* be related to the size of the files (seems iTunes match doesn't like large files). If you have lossless or WAV files, consider converting to AAC 256kb which I think is what iTunes match wants to put into the cloud, so might help. The conspiracy theorists would probably say the bug intentional and in order to get you to purchase apple hardware.
    Last time I asked iTunes about a refund a very partronising lady replied and in essence told me that iTunes store policy is "All sales are final", in other words, no refunds. I guess if it happened on the internet then it didn't really happen, not same as the store where you can get no questions asked refund.
    Hope you get it sort, good luck

  • ITunes Match Songs Keep Starting Over

    I've been using iTunes Match since it first released and absolutely love it! However, I've been experiencing a strange thing the last couple of months and it's happening more frequently. I haven't changed any settings or anything - it's an issue that just started out of the blue.
    I keep all my music in the cloud and stream it on my iMac. Particularly my playlists. Sometimes, right in the middle of playing a song, it will stop the music and put the song back at the beginning. Out of nowhere! All of a sudden the song will stop, I look at iTunes, and the play marker will be at the beginning of the song, and it's stopped. One particular song I couldn't even get through it because it kept stopping it and I had to start the song over and over until I just skipped it. I thought with the new Yosemite the issue might be fixed, but it's continued from the previous version into this new OS. I've never had that problem before songs in the cloud or playlists in the cloud, but this has happened a number of times over the last few months.
    My internet connection is great (50mb download) and it's not cutting in and out. I thought that might be the issue because the songs in the cloud will just stop, as if the internet cut off the song, and then iTunes will put the marker at the beginning.
    Any thoughts?
    Hardware: iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
    Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
    Memory: 8 GB
    OS: OS X Yosemite Version 10.10
    ITunes: 12.0.1.26

    I have the same problem. It seems once a movie or tv show has a problem, it will never "complete" the download. It gets all the way to the end and then inexplicably starts over. Sometimes it says "processing" and then starts over. Frankly, I find there are more quirks with the iPad than my Android tablet. Just saying. Amazon's system, cloud player, and movie rentals blow iTunes out of the water.

  • I paid for itunes match it keeps saying I havent paid for it?

    What am I doing wrong, I have the email saying that I have paid for it, but when I go to my Iphone to switch it on,it keeps saying You are not currently subrscribed to itunes match use itunes on your computer to subscribe?

    You must be logged into the mobile iTunes Store using the same Apple ID with which you purchased the iTunes Match service in iTunes.

  • ITunes Match Uploads Keep Stopping

    Looks like a couple of peole have posted on this, but I haven't seen any advice yet.  My Step 3 - Uploading Artwork and Remaining Songs - keeps stopping.  I get maybe 5-10 items uploaded, then the progress stops.  Still get the progress wheel spinning, etc, but no more items get uploaded.  I've started and stopped the process multiple times, restarted my computer, etc.  Saw one recommendation suggesting that there might be an odd track that hangs up the system.  That doesn't seem to be my case - I get about a dozen items uploaded, then the progress stops.  I Stop and Start, then get a few more uploaded. 
    Very frustrating and disappointing.  Really seems like Apple rolled iTunes Match out before things were ready. 

    Don't get me wrong, I'm very exicted about the iTunes Match service and think it is a fantastic idea!  I just wish more of the bugs and issues would have been ironed out before release.  I am a huge Apple fan and user because, normally, everything 'Just Works'. 
    I understand about bandwidth limitations - again, my problems stem from having to start and stop the upload process dozens of times because the process would stop/hang up, despite my rebooting, Option-Clicking, etc.  My iTunes library isn't large - just under 10,000 songs.  After matching, I had to upload approximately 1700 songs.  I limited or turned off all other internet/wireless activity while uploading.
    The purpose of my posting about this issue is 1) to hopefully find a fix, and 2) to give Apple some feedback about what is going on with iTunes Match.
    By the way, I finally completed my upload.  Now that my library is uploaded, hopefully adding additional CDs/tracks here and there won't be much of a problem.  And I'm really looking forward to using this! 
    I've seen this mentioned on other tthreads, but I don't want a refund - just wish Apple would have ironed things out a bit better before releasing.  Someone mentioned that iTunes Match is still considered in Beta - I don't recall reading that anywhere, and hope that is not true.  What has distinguished Apple from the rest of the pack is that they've had the discipline to hold off on releasing products and services until they were working smoothly, and not using their customer base as an extended testing phase.  Just hoping this experience was just an anomoly, and not an indication of things to come.

  • 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.

  • How do I delete songs from iTunes Match while keeping them in my computer's iTunes library?

    So I know I'm not the only one with this problem, but I can't seem to find an answer specifically relevant to my issue. I have a playlist on my computer entitled "Christmas Music" in which I store all of my holiday songs (about 64 songs out of over 6,000). Now that the Christmas season is over, I no longer want to listen to these songs, so I have unchecked them all in my iTunes library. However, because I am subscribed to iTunes Match, the songs all still play when I have my music shuffled on my phone—iTunes Match apparently doesn't care whether they are checked in your library or not; it will still sync them across all your devices and play them during shuffle mode regardless.
    The solution would be for me to somehow remove these particular songs from iCloud so they no longer play in iTunes Match. However, I would still like to have the songs in my iTunes library so that I could listen to them again in the future during the appropriate time of year. I can only seem to find instructions on how to delete the songs permanently from both my iTunes Library and iCloud, when all I really want to do is delete them from iCloud.
    Is there a way for me to do this that doesn't involve permanently losing any of my songs? Please help.

    Instead of removing the music from the cloud or the iTunes library why not shuffle your music using a Smart Playlist which excludes the holiday music, or tracks that are not checked. For example, use this very simple Smart Playlist:

  • TS3297 In trying to use ITune Match, it keep telling me that my network connection was reset and try again. Never works even though I clearly have good internet connection?

    I signed up for ITunes Match. When I open ITunes on computer it ends up with error message that the network connection has been reset and try again. I have good internet connection. What can I do to resolve?

    look around the forum tons of people repport that they can't update
    makes you suspect that apples update servers can't meet the depand of too many users
    trying to update at once

  • ITunes match freezes, keep getting error 4004

    I have consistently kept getting this error 4004 when running iTunes Match.

    For iTunes Match, try posting at their forum:
    https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_match
    Also, look at the right panel (here) under "More like this", there are many links to other posts from users with error 4004.

  • ITunes Match keeps resetting my iTunes Library metadata

    I would be very grateful if somebody could help me!  I have painstakingly gone through all my classical music tracks (all 2000 of them) fixing the metadata.  I joined iTuines Match the day it was launched all my songs were already synced to that service.
    For example, I want the composers name at the beginning of each song tile:   Beethoven; Symphony No.9
    Then I want the composer field to list the composer's name like this:  Beethoven, Ludvig van
    And I want the performers name (not the composers name) to be in the Artist & Album Artist fields:   Leonard Bernstein, New York Philhamonic
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    It sounds like your iPad is not signed into the same itunes STORE account.
    Make sure that it is and that the toggle button for show all music is turned on and you should slowly see your music becoming available on your device.
    As far as the constant signing in I would say do you have the latest software on your computer?
    If you do then I would suggest uninstallling itunes and reinstalling from the apples website.
    Sometimes this helps FIX somethings we can't see.  You will probably have to sign in once you reinstall but it should just go through the motions and it will not double upload your music.  At least it hasn't for me.
    When you reinstall itunes your itunes library will not be affected so don't be worried about it messing your library up. At least it never has for me.

  • HT5637 I want to keep the 15.0 storage but unsubscribe from the iTunes match?

    how do i unsubscribe from iTunes Match but keep the 15.0 storage in iCloud or can I?

    Hi ddorothy,
    Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
    For more information on this, take a look at this article:
    iTunes Store: Subscribing to iTunes Match
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4914
    To turn off Auto-Renew for iTunes Match
    iTunes Match will automatically renew your subscription at the end of your 1 year subscription by default. To turn off Auto-Renew:
    Open the latest version of iTunes.
    Choose Store > Sign In.
    Enter your Apple ID and password, and click Sign In.
    Choose Store > View My Account. You may be asked to re-enter your Apple ID password.
    In the "iTunes in the Cloud" section, click Turn Off Auto-Renew to the right of iTunes Match.
    Best of luck,
    Mario

  • Mp3 and itunes match

    Recently purchases the beatles in mono, and itunes match just keep turning around and around? anyone could help?
    Also, bought a rolling stones complete vinyle set that have a free download in mp3 of all the vinyl, never been able to keep them in itunes match, imatch keep going on and off, all the way, it even erase my entire librairy on all my computer when i turnit off, to see if it was that, i let it running for 3 days, without any improvement, i finaly erase all my mp3 files? anyone has an answer?

    tapajeurs wrote:
    Recently purchases the beatles in mono, and itunes match just keep turning around and around? anyone could help?
    See this specific thread for a discussion on The Beatles mono boxed set: Re: The Beatles in Mono - 48 of 185 mono songs Matched to stereo versions. And this is a list of several threads discussing the boxed set:
    https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?resultTypes=&dateRange=all&peopleEnabl ed=true&q=The+Beatles&containerType=14&container=2882&username=&rankBy=relevance &numResults=15
    tapajeurs wrote:
    Also, bought a rolling stones complete vinyle set that have a free download in mp3 of all the vinyl, never been able to keep them in itunes match, imatch keep going on and off, all the way, it even erase my entire librairy on all my computer when i turnit off, to see if it was that, i let it running for 3 days, without any improvement, i finaly erase all my mp3 files? anyone has an answer?
    As for the Rolling Stones... where did you download the MP3 files from and what bit-rate are they? Many times when the iTM process in iTunes keeps looping back to step 1 it is because it is trying to match some particular tracks. My advice is to add the tracks a few a time; say, one album at a time and let iTM work on those and complete before you add another album. Having the process try to work on dozens or even hundreds of tracks when it is looping like that can be frustrating.

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