Just a question about iTunes Match....

Is anybody else have a problem with itunes Match....cause i am...i drag a song list into itunes...imatch starts to scan then it stops and give me a itunes store error...i log out of itunes a few times...then bag in and it works sometimes...now today it is not working!!

In iOS 5 all music is downloaded to permanent storage when you listen to it. It is similar in iOS 6 except the "streamed" songs are not store in permanent memory on the iOS device.

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General question about iTunes Match and multiple libraries

Hello to everyone,
I have a general question about the iTunes Match service, which is available since yesterday in my country (Italy). Currently my library situation is the following:
Computer A (desktop, Windows 7): "big" iTunes library (about 20 GB), at the moment not associated with my Apple ID
Computer B (MacBook Air 2011): "small" iTunes library (about 5 GB), associated with my Apple ID
At the moment, both my iOS devices (iPhone 4 and iPad 2) are synchronized with the smaller library on the MacBook Air.
Question is as follows: should I subscribe to iTunes Match, would it be possible to upload the "big" library (provided I associate it with my Apple ID) to iCloud while keeping my devices synchronized with the "small" one?
Ideally, at the end of the day, the situation should be the following: both iOS devices with music from the small library + possibility of downloading songs from iCloud (coming from the big one). Is this possible?
Maybe the question sounds stupid, but I want to be sure about this before paying for the service.
Thanks a lot.

Yes, you could also associate your larger library with iTunes match if you associated your Apple ID with it. However any purchases in the library made from another Apple ID will not be matched with iTunes much.
If both libraries are part of iTunes match, then all your devices will see all of the content from both libraries, which content you choose to have on those devices and which you have accessible via iTunes match is entirely up to you.

Questions about iTunes Match before subscribing

I'm thinking about signing up for iTunes Match so that I can access my music on my Apple TV without my MacBook Pro being on. I have 1,575 songs in my library and 1,275 of the are purchased from the iTunes store. Will iTunes, match all the songs inlcuding the ones I purchased or the 300 that I ripped off a CD? Also since the songs will be matched that means I can download them from any device right? Will I also be able to delete the orginial files off my computer and then download the ones that were matched? My last question is after one year and I don't re-subscribe will I still be able to keep the matched songs? Someone please help me with these questions so that I can subrscribe as soon as possible. Thank you

A search of the forum would have turned up these answers for you.
Most songs that you have purchased from the iTunes store will be identified as "purchased." Only songs that are imported into iTunes from other sources such as CD or Amazon's service are eligible to be "matched" or "uploaded." Any imported songs that are not "matched" will be "uploaded." But do not expect 100% accuracy at any rate. When you download "purchased" songs to your library, or another computer, or an iDevice you are getting the same song you already have. When you download "matched" songs you are getting the version from the iTunes store, and "uploaded" songs are obviously the same songs that are already in your iTunes library.
For imported songs that are "matched" that you might download they are yours to keep. If you choose not to renew your iTunes Match subscription nothing at all will happen to the songs that you downloaded from the store.
However, if your primary purpose is to upgraded existing music you might be disappointed in the results.

I've just signed up to iTunes Match as I have songs on my iPhone 4 which wont sync with iTunes as they are from CDs but I can't see my music in the cloud now. Anyone had the same problem and have an easy fix?

I've just signed up to iTunes Match as I have songs on my iPhone 4 which wont sync with iTunes as they are from CDs but I can't see my music in the cloud now. Anyone had the same problem and have an easy fix?

What fixed it for me:
On your computer, open iTunes > My iPhone (or whatever name you gave your iPhone) > "Music" page
Uncheck "Sync Music"
Click "Sync" button (bottom right)
Let it run and finish
Uncheck the box for every song, playlist, etc.
Click "Sync" button (bottom right) (This step may be unnecessary, but I did it and got the result I wanted.)
Let it run and finish
Check the boxes for the music you want on your iPhone
Click "Sync" button (bottom right)
Let it run and finish
See if that doesn't work for you. I tried a lot of things that did nothing, but this seems to have fixed it, and quickly.

I have an Apple TV 3 and have just signed up to iTunes Match. However there is no toggle in the Apple TV settings (I've looked in iTunes store) to turn on iTunes Match.

I have an Apple TV 3 and have just signed up to iTunes Match. However there is no toggle in the Apple TV settings (I've looked in iTunes store) to turn on iTunes Match.

There would normally be more than 4.
If AppleTV does not 'see' the internet you get Settings and Computers alone.
I'm in UK too - there have been some reported outages of Apple services today globally.
First thing I would do here is unpower and restart AppleTV and also maybe your router.
I'll check mine to see if music is still listed.
AC

Hi, my question is about iTunes Match.

Hi all.
I'm new here.
I have just bought iTunes match and think it's great.
However!!!
I've just returnrd from the Apple store and they can't answer my question and think there is a problem with the Apple software. Anyone else experienced the following:-
When in Airplane mode my tunes is empty.
I go online on either my iPhone or iPad and LISTEN to a song. I do not click on the right side to load it.
Then, when I go into Airplane mode, the song and sometimes even a song adacent to it appears and it is not possible to side swipe it and delete it.
The only way to delete it from the memory on the device is to go back online, and go to the song and press on the right hand side and load it.
Then to go again to airplane mode and side swipe and delete the song.
It is amazing that this happens, not only to a song I just listen to, but often also to an adjacent song in the play list.
has anyone else come accros this and has anyone a solution?
Thanks.

sorry, here is another pic, closer... the spots are really small, but for a new expensive phone i think is unadmisible..

Some questions on Itunes match

Hello,
I just purchased Itunes match and have a few questions. I have rarely used Itunes before and so just started with a (literally) empty library. I decided to pull a folder into itunes, edit the tags and then try the upload. Here a few questions issues:
1) does the File size or lenghth matter. For example Itunes sayed that there are 60 Files to upload. After the first 2 files were uploaded it sayed 30 files have been uploaded! The files are each mp3's which are about 30min long and i was wondering if Itunes counts those longer files as more than one against my upload limit? This is very important because i have a lot of very long files and it would then not work with my upload limit.
2) I am wondering if i change something on a file (whether matched or uploaded) it also changes on the cloud (e.g. Tags).
3) Is there a way i can temporary stop Itunes match, import more files into itunes edit the tags and then upload them? When Itunes match is on it automatically uploads them before i can edit them. And if i turn off itunes match and back on it starts the complete process (identifying files etc.) over again? As i start with an empty Itunes and all files having no tags ( alot of them are long recordings from classes, University etc.) i want to import them year by year, edit them upload them check them before moving on.
Thank you for your help

Love_infinitam wrote:
1) does the File size or lenghth matter.
I don't think so. However, if you haven't enabled in your View Options, Icloud status, you might want to do it. If there are additional files that were uploaded, you can do a sort and see them all.
2) I am wondering if i change something on a file (whether matched or uploaded) it also changes on the cloud (e.g. Tags).
If you're asking whether the already uploaded file will have its ID3 tags automatically changed during a later matching session, so they are the same as ones you altered on your local copy, I'm unsure, but I'd say no. To be absolutely certain, you might need to go through a process that purges the uploaded copy, then re-upload. This is time-consuming, but the process has been discussed in the forums.
if i turn off itunes match and back on it starts the complete process (identifying files etc.) over again?
Yes it does start over. However it's a cumulative process. If it sees files in your library that it has already uploaded, it doesn't upload another copy. As mentioned above, in order to get a fresh copy uploaded (with new ID3 tags), you need to remove it from the cloud, which also requires you to remove it from you iTunes library, then reimport it.
For what it's worth, there is also a contextual menu item that allows you to "Add To iTunes Match" those items you've highlighted in iTunes. However it seems to do the same thing as selecting "Update iTunes Match" in the Store menu, meaning when I've done it, I haven't seen any change in the steps taken, nor the time it takes to go through the process.
I gather what you are hoping to do is to get all of your University recordings organized in a manner that works for you. No matter how you get them organized in iTunes, they may not automatically appear that way in the cloud. However if your file naming gives you the basic organization, I imagine setting up smart playlists will do the trick. You'll have access to those playlists on any device that has your iTunes Match account turned on.

Sigh. I just don't understand iTunes Match.

Forgive me. I'm an idiot. I'll just list questions below for anyone to answer. Thank you in advance for any help.
I've got a 160gb ipod (my music device 99% of time) and an iphone (rarely use for music).
I've got a library of about 16,000+ songs, 60% ripped, 25% from emusic, 10% bootlegs, 5% from misc places like Amazon downloads.
So I understand that only songs not in Apple's library get uploaded. Pretty much all the bootlegs had to be uploaded. I think I've completed that process.
My main interest was having a cloud backup should my hard drives fail. I'm pretty sure that's what iTunes Match is. If I lost everything I could just download it from the cloud right?
What about tracks that have errors in them? I've got a couple ripped tracks that skip. Is there a way to download a clean 256kbs version from the cloud into my itunes library?
My wife has an iTunes library with approximately 2000 tracks. Is there a way to get hers backed up into the cloud?
I now have a ton of random crap in my iTunes library. Single tracks by one artist I never downloaded, misc videos, etc. No idea where those came from.
On the iPhone I notice it's showing my whole library with a cloud icon next to the song. I suppose it lets me stream the track or download it if I want but I never need to use the iphone for music so whatever.
Any thoughts? Particularly on the skipping tracks? THANK YOU.

My main interest was having a cloud backup should my hard drives fail. I'm pretty sure that's what iTunes Match is. If I lost everything I could just download it from the cloud right?
Wrong. Because what you have in the cloud is a mix of uploads (actual copies of your tracks) and "matches" (an attempt to find a copy of your song in the iTunes store), you do NOT have a true backup of your music in the cloud. Examples abound of explict tracks being matched to clean versions, long tracks being matched to short versions, mono Beatles tracks being matched to stereo (mono isn't even for sale in the store), and on and on.
Nothing takes the place of a true local backup, and with the cost of an external drive so lo, there's really no reason not to get one.
What about tracks that have errors in them? I've got a couple ripped tracks that skip. Is there a way to download a clean 256kbs version from the cloud into my itunes library?
If you have a situation where you were lucky enough to get a damaged track to match, then yes, you can download a clean copy. If it is only a few songs and you are sure they are damaged and sure they did match, the easiest way to get the Match track will be to delete the original from your library (and be sure not to delete from the cloud). ZFrom there, you should get the track name with a download icon next to it.
However, if the track was damaged and marked as ineligible, then Match just skipped it. You'll want to get a clean copy fromthe CD in that case.
My wife has an iTunes library with approximately 2000 tracks. Is there a way to get hers backed up into the cloud?
Yes. You should be able to turn on iTunes Match in her copy of iTunes. You will be asked if you want to add the computer. Say yes and use the same ID you used to sign up to iTunes Match.
I now have a ton of random crap in my iTunes library. Single tracks by one artist I never downloaded, misc videos, etc. No idea where those came from.
Chances are that at some point you or someone in your family either purchased them or got them for free through some promotion like Free Music Tuesdays. Even if they were deleted from your iTunes library, they'd still be in your purchase history.
On the iPhone I notice it's showing my whole library with a cloud icon next to the song. I suppose it lets me stream the track or download it if I want but I never need to use the iphone for music so whatever.
Yes, by default with iTunes Match turned on, your Music app is set to show y ou all the music available in the cloud, plus all that is stored on your iPhone. iTunes Match does not "stream" music to your phone. even if you just decide to play one track that isn't already on your phone, it is downloaded in the background.
Given the number of questions you have, it sounds like a little reading would help you a lot. Here's a good place to start. If you get an error, just hit the reload button.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3619849
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Stupid question re iTunes match and family sharing

So, here is my dilemma...we have a large family and a ton of os devices--iphones, iPads, apple tv's, iMacs, MacBooks, etc. Up until now, we have set everyone up on the same apple id, which has been crazy--my and my wife's phone ringing with the kids' FaceTime calls, me not being able to sign into iTunes match because there were too many devices associated with our account, and so on. Now, wit the upgrade to iOS 8, my wife's phone is ringing when I receive calls and vice versa. So, I was looking into the family sharing, but am not sure how that affects iTunes match. I want to keep my iTunes match, because I have a huge music library and enjoy being able to listen to my music anywhere. I guess my questions is, what is the best way to set up my accounts now? Keep my apple id for my iOS devices, and set everyone else up as a "family member" under sharing with them having their own apple id's? If so, what does that do to my iTunes match library? can I keep iTunes match and still have family sharing on? I don't care if I can share my music library with everyone in my family, but what I do care about is that I don't want to lose my access to iTunes match and my entire library, some of which consists of songs downloaded 7 years ago. I know it's a stupid question, but as much as I've read and searched, I still haven't found the answer to my question. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Sounds very bad... you can try this, create a account for each member of the family, delete all products (leave all your devices as new) and put the accounts in the devices again, for example, this iPad is from the kid, put the Apple ID of the kid in her iPad, after, this iPhone is from your wife, put the Apple ID from your wife in her iPhone. But remember, the purchases save in the Apple IDs when the family use before, for change the purchases contact with Apple.

Is it just me, or is iTunes Match a "scam"?

All right, so here are a few disturbing observations I've made while using the new (for the rest of us) service of iTunes Match...
1st observation:
I have some songs in my library marked by iTunes Match as "Matched" which had wrong tags on purpose... for example, take... Carlos Gardel's "Por una cabeza".
Since I didn't have this song's album name, I tagged it under the album field: "Search for album..." in order to remind me of searching the corresponding album for that particular song. Well... iTunes Match happened to match this song anyway! So I deleted it in order to download the "higher quality" version which is supposedly, already in the iTunes Store servers (I don't know why since I don't even know which album(s) have this version of the song).
2nd observation:
So I have a song named "Lambada" with no artist tag, same "Search for album..." album tag and nothing else. Well... iTunes Match managed to find my song and allowed me to download a higher quality version of it!
3rd observation:
I have a faulty song from Telepopmusik's Genetic World album, more than 8 minutes long (because of like... 3 minutes of silence this file has), when this song is supposed to have a play time of 5:05 or something. And yes... iTunes Match, found my 8 minutes version and when I deleted my file, I downloaded the higher quality version of... 8 minutes (with the added 3 mins silence song)! (which iTunes Store doesn't even have in its catalogue...)
So after thinking about this for a minute... I've reached the following conclusion...
1. iTunes Match doesn't use tags as a method for matching songs. (otherwise, my Lambada song would be impossible to match)
2. iTunes Match seems to just locally convert your songs to an AAC version (and not downloading the iTunes Store catalogue song, even though it says so), otherwise, my Telepopmusik's song would be transformed into the iTunes catalogue 5 min version of the same song...
3. If those theories are correct, then yes... we are paying for the songs we already had in the first place, with no song upgrading whatsoever (not one you could've easily achieved by just right clicking a song and choosing - CREATE AAC VERSION).
Please correct me if there is anything fallacious in my reasoning... I'm just a little disturbed about this...
Best.

People, please read before commenting! It is tiresome having to repeat things...
Mike Connelly wrote:
How are you checking to see if a song is matched or uploaded? You can right click the top headers in iTunes and get two new ones, one with cloud icons and the other with text saying Matched/Uploaded/etc.
If you're deleting and a download gets you the same file then it was probably uploaded instead of matched.
As I told roebeet on my first reply: "About your second point, yes, I do have the iCloud Status column enabled that's how I began noticing this weird things, and no... the Telepopmusik song was matched since the beginning, that's why it makes me doubt about all of this."
@KeithJenner,
Obviously Apple won't explicitly say it... that would be openly accepting that you clean music, but I sure can tell that everyone understood the implications of the service... Anyway about your point:
"As for the issues stated here about getting the old song back, it has been raised a number of times on this and other forums and every time it is discovered that it was indeed an uploaded file rather than a matched one. I'd be surprised to find that isn't the case here, but I suppose you never know."
As you can see from my quote above, my song was matched the first time I ran iTM, I THEN deleted my file, and downloaded the 256 kbps and yep, it was my own file... I mean, I don't care anymore, I've already paid for a year, so I'll hope it gets better with time, but what I can say now is that, Apple's advertisings are misleading, I took the bite and unless the service gives me a REAL benefit, I won't be renewing my subscription.
What I'm trying right now, is to make people be aware of the real "features" of the service.
Anyway, thank you everyone for your comments.
Best.

A question about itunes

I had a question reguarding itunes. Here is my situation, my computer has two hard drives, C drive and D drive. My C drive is for Windows and a few programs, my D drive is for all my files, some programs, and my music. My C drive kicked the bucket the other day and I am ordering a new hard drive. I am worried about when I reinstall itunes onto this new drive what will happen. I do not want to loose what’s on my ipod or have to re-copy all of my music and videos, not to mention the tedious process of organizing things the way I like. All my music from itunes (along with the itunes program) were on my D drive, so I still have all of that. Is there a way I can just sort of throw everything into (when I reinstall itunes) the new itunes folder, by copy and pasting? Or is there anything else I can do?

Hello, "User", and welcome to the DIscussions.
Resellers often have to send in an activation for the card before it can be used. This is to prevent shoplifting, since many such resellers have their cards just hanging on an endcap or otherwise easy to grab. If activation is necessary, it takes time for the reseller's system to get that sent in to the iTunes Store, hence the instruction on waiting. If you try to redeem the card prior to the activation being sent and registered, redeeming the card will fail and could perhaps invalidate the card..
Best to wait as you've been advised.
By the way, for future posts, the forum in which you originally posted (Feedback about Discussions) is for questions about the Discussions themselves (as the information under the big red "Please Read This Before Posting Here" said). You'll get the best results if you look for the forum most appropriate to your question.
Regards.
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ICloud and Apple ID are different, what about Itunes Match??

My apple ID, what I use to purchase apps and songs with, is different than my iCloud ID which I use to synch mail, contacts, etc with.
Now that iTunes Match is live, and I am using it, what is going to happen when I do a synch? Has anyone in my situation tried yet?
Im wondering if, when my phone goes to the cloud to synch, it wont see any music under my iCloud ID and just not synch that, or will it be ok this way? It has worked great up to now, but am worried.
If you are wondering why I dont just try it, well it seems the servers at Apple are once again overloaded and I cant do anything more with iTunes match then what initially synchronized. I get a time out error now. So I thought I would ask the question and try to resolve any potential problems before they happen!

I was in the exact same situation as you. I had an Apple ID I purchased all my songs/movies/shows/apps with, and a completely different one that I used for iCloud. I decided that for iTunes Match, I'd just use my iCloud ID, and it's been great. I never have to use my old account. Whenever my old apps have updates, my iPhone just asks me for my password (it remembers my old email), and the updates download. It's easy and great - you'll be fine. Enjoy iTunes Match!

Need help: question about itunes update problem

I started up iTunes yesterday and a window popped up saying there was a new version of iTunes to update, so I did it, and now I can't save equalizer presets! The feature doesn't work at all anymore, and it used to work great. It just goes back to Manual every time, and just won't save anything you put in. This really frustrates me, as it was one of my fave things about iTunes. Can anybody tell me what happened? Can I fix it or go back to my old version without losing my library?
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How do I make sure I don't lose my library? if i uninstall and then re-install an older version (which I have on disc), how do I make sure my library comes with me?

Just a question about security

Hi All.
Just a simple question really, I read on one of the forums here a question about running windows and apples mac os at the same time.
My question is: would they not cause conflict, as with apple you don't need to install security but windows is riddled with bugs and virus's surely one would infect the other?
Sorry to sound so silly, I'm not very computer savvy , but it strikes me as wrong somehow.
Thanks Tricia

You will have whatever threats assail Windows and must protect against those, but none of them will cross over to the Mac side. Note: there is cross platform Windows/Mac malware, i.e. malware written for both. But to be infected you need to be infected directly on the Mac side.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/the-slow-and-steady-evolution-of-cross-platform-m alware/4930

I have an iphone 6 with the most recent iOS. iTunes Match is on. Music app only showing songs purchased on iTunes and no playlists are displayed. Just happened when updating iTunes Match. Solutons?

I have an iPhone 6 with 64 GB of memory. I have iTunes Match turned on my account and on the phone. Suddenly, the Music app is only displaying music purchased directly from iTunes and no playlists are displayed. This occurred after updating iTunes Match on my PC; when new music did not appear, I turned off iTunes Match off/on the PC then did the same on iPhone 6. It looks like iTunes Match is trying to do a full download to the phone but it never completes. Ideas?

Hi Moonage Daydreamer01,
I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues on your iPhone. If you continue to have issues with iTunes Match, you may find the information and troublehshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
How to troubleshoot iTunes Match - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

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