Song matching question...

I download quite a bit of new music through mixtapes and such outlets, of which are usually low bitrate files. Most of my music is within 6 months old (maybe about 300 tracks.) My question is, at some point, if/when these songs are available on iTunes, will they automatically be matched and upgraded in my library with this new iTunes Match service?

You can't.
In this order, the screens are as follows:
1) Normal, showing progress bar of current song
2) Scrub, showing a diamond instead of a progress bar. Use the scroll wheel to scrub through the current song
3) Rating, showing the current song's rating out of 5 stars. Use the scroll wheel to change rating

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For iTunes Match, how come some songs "match" on an album and other songs on the same album "upload" without matching?

For iTunes Match, how come some songs "match" on an album and other songs on the same album "upload" without matching? All songs are available on iTunes. I don't get it! Any way to manually match songs that iTunes apparently can't match? I have hundreds in this unmatched state.

gsl wrote:
Shazam has NO problem determining what these songs are. Maybe Apple needs to consider licensing their technology as it seems MUCH more accurate than what they are doing.
You aren't comparing like with like.
The main task that Shazam has is to identify the name or a track and the artist. I believe that it suggests the album as well, but if it gets that wrong then it doesn't really matter too much.
With iTunes Match, getting the album (i.e. identifying which version it is) is much more important. If it gets that wrong then it breaks up the flow of an album. This makes the task that match has very much harder.
In fact, there is a strong argument to say that currently the problem iTunes has is that it is matching too many songs, resulting in matches from different albums.
I'm sure that match is not struggling to identify whether it has a song or not, but whether it has the correct version of a song. When you introduce different masterings into the process then, depending on the thresholds set, it is probably correct in concluding that it hasn't got a particular version, even if you think it has.
The solution would appear to me to be a tweaking of the matching thresholds along with the ability to force an upload, but we just don't know what restrictions they have (remember that if Shazam gets it wrong the it doesn't present you with a copy of a new track that you didn't have previously). It is almost certainly not just a case of improving their technology.

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You probably edited the master slide without changing the theme colors? Check the Object Style for Answers in the Object Style Manager. The numbering takes the same color as the answer text.
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I have a quiz that has a few multiple choice, a few true /
false, and one matching question. When the user finishes the quiz,
the Review button takes them to the first question and tells them
if they got the answer right or wrong (if they got it wrong, it
displays the correct answer).
1) For the matching question, there is no "review area". Is
it possible to add one?
2) Once they see the right or wrong anwers, how do they
advance to review the next question? (I do not have a "NEXT" button
on the questions).
Thanks in advance!

Hi, I'm Larry.
Sorry for the wait - normally we try to be sure no one slips
through the cracks, but - you did.
1) There is certainly a review area for "Matching"
questions. If you don't see one, it has been corrupted somehow, or
perhaps this question was not to be "Included in Scoring"?
If you are sure the review area isn't there - but should be -
create a new question slide with the same question and answers,
then delete thie current one. Be sure that you have checked "Allow
User to Review ..." in the Quiz Manager settings.
2) I use two buttons (only) on my quizzes.
And "Next" is always one of them. I use the "Submit" button
to indicate I have selected my answer, and I use the "Next" button
to move forward AFTER reviewing the quiz (ONLY). And I place a
caption on each question slide warning the user that the "Submit
button is to be used to move forward EXCEPT after the Review is
complete.
Hope this helps. An example of what one of my scored movies
might look like
the
one at this link. This is a movie covering the various movie
types - with a quiz and the opportunity to print out a completion
certfiicate if you pass (but not if you don't). Enjoy!

Review Quiz - Matching Question

Hi fellow Captivate-rs! I'm urgently hoping for some help...
I've got a four-question "Knowledge Check" (quiz), complete with a "Results" slide, at the end of my project. When clicking the "Review Quiz" button, the correct answers display for the user to compare against theirs as well (as should occurr, of course). The only exception is with "Matching" questions. When reviewing them, I see yellow boxes where the correct answer could/should be viewed. However, the correct answer(s) do not appear. Does anyone know of a solution? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Captivate doesn't allow much flexibility in these pre-programmed quiz question slides.
If you're not trying to output to HTML5 you could rebuild the question as a drag and drop interaction using the Infosemantics Drag and Drop Lite Question Widget.
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/drag-and-drop/question
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http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/drag-and-drop/question/help
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Using Captivate 3, I would like to use the matching question
to match images, such as icons, with their usage. Is it possible to
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But, placing one image on top of another in a web page must be a task that happens all the time.. I just have not found a straight forward way to do it yet.
It's really not common.
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I have lots of songs that are somehow related to a previous libray. I have two copies of most songs, but, one copy has 'question' mark next to it when you attemp to play it, and it says it cannot locate original file, would I like to locate it. I just want to know how to easily delete/remove all the songs with questions marks.

I wouldn't call this an easy answer- but there's a method to my madness. Hear me out.
In your Music library, go to File > Show Duplicates. Sort by Song Name. You can select each one with the exclamation point next to it by holding down your Command key and clicking each one. When you've selected them all, hit Delete, and you're set. If you have selected all the right ones, it will NOT ask you if you want to move the files to the Trash.
The reason this is preferable to some other method is that your missing song might contain metadata that your newer songs do not- like rating, grouping, genre, etc. If you Show Duplicates and have your important view options chosen, you can make sure you transfer all the right info from the old song to the new one.
It's not elegant, but it works.

C5.5 Issue with color/colour in matching question drop down list

Hi is there a way to change the colour of the letters that appear in the drop down lists for a matching question in 5.5?
I'm using white text on a grey background for my quiz slides, which is nice and easy to read, but then in the preview the letters in the drop down appear as white text on a white background. I can't see a way to change the font in the drop down back to black (as it is on my editing view), without also changing the colour of the answer text.
Is there a way to change this?
I've just tried covering the lists over with a chunk of background image - so that the user doesn't even know they're there, but the quiz slide has ordered the image behind the lists.
Failing there being a way to change the colour, is there a way to have a matching slide without a drop down list at all?
Thanks for reading
Lynn

Hi Shekhar
Thanks for the extra info - I'd tried changing the properties and using the object style manager before, but hadn't considered using them together.
This time, I followed your advice and:
I set the colour for 'Matching entries' to black in the object style manager
Then went into each column 1 entry and set the text to white
The result was white text in the column, with black in the list. Much better than before!
However, when I changed the text in column 2 to white, the list entries became white as well.
After a lot of experimentation, I've discovered that if you just select the text object and change the colour, you change all the text including the lettering and numbering of the answer - this changes the list colour.
If you change the text in the answer by highlighting it, this doesn't affect the lettering/numbering, however it still changes the drop down
To leave the drop down the right colour you need to change the answer colour by highlighting first, but, and the order is vital, you need to insert a space between the letter/number and the answer text first.
So, the end result I have is that the column 1 text is the right colour, the column 2 text is the right colour and the text in the drop down is the right colour. Unfortunately the lettering for the column 2 answers has to stay the same as the letters in the drop down list, so they don't show up brilliantly (black on a dark grey background), but it's a massive improvement on the invisible list I had before!
Thanks again!
Lynn

Adding variables to match question slides

Hi All,
I am using Captivate 7 and need your help/idea/expertise on this. I am trying the following:
Adding a drag and drop slide wherein I should be able to drop the source to any target.
If the drop happens on the correct option (this is the challenge, how can I define the correct answer!), a message should flash saying "You are right"
If even a single drop goes wrong, then I the right answers should flash, (this I can create a new slide though)
But to set such conditions what should I exactly do? Please help.
Thanks,
Roja

The title of your question is bit confusing. Why should you have to add variables to match question slides?
The content of your question is totally different: each D&D slide can act as a question slide. It doesn't really have all the features of a question slide but most of them: Reporting, Score (only black/white, not partial score/penalty), Attempts, Actions On Success/Failure. When it is configured as a question its score will be reset when the user 'Retakes' a quiz with multiple attempts on quiz level etc. Progress quiz indicator will not be included however. And defining the correct answers is a breeze with the wizard or with the button Correct Answers.
The best part about D&D are IMO the 'Object actions': you can specify an advanced action for each drag&drop act and that is what you need. Do not use a simple action, because it will release the play head. That action can show a feedback text/object that was previously hidden, it can apply an effect to an object like flashing, etc. This blog post was written for CP8, but can help maybe:
Drag&Drop tips - Captivate blog

Matching Question Slides

Help
I am creating a matching questions slide with 6 selections.
Everytime I try to drag the last selection a box (similar to the
submit box) appears.

Not enough information, my friend, though I appreciate the
offer of a beer. What might be "similar to the submit box"? Does it
have text on it? What does it say? Where does it appear? - in the
air above the monitor? - in the leaves in a teacup? Okay, I'm
really just kidding, as you can tell ... but you will have to throw
us a bone and try to better describe your problem.
Based on what you said here, the only thing that comes to
mind is to go back and edit the "Matching" question slide to make
sure you have at least one match on the right side for each on the
left side. Not two, not zero, just a single one for each.
P.S. Welcome to the Captivate User Community!! I like your
screen name. Is your real name Icarus? Just wondered...

Matching Question--possible bug

Here's an issue that's been reported and verified by both technical support and myself.
In matching questions, if you drag incorrectly from one column to the other and then correct your mistake--the question is marked incorrect even if the end result is correct. Anyone seen this problem? Know what to do about it?

I agree, this looks like a bug. This code
if (names.contains(bundleName)) {
//the fallback branch intersects the main branch so we can stop now.
break;
}in getBundleImpl() causes the en_US bundle not to be loaded. It stops too early.
Probably it should continue rather than break.
I wrote a little class to find out which bundles the ResourceBundle class tries to load:
class CL extends ClassLoader {
     public CL()      {
          Locale.setDefault(Locale.US);
          test(Locale.UK);
          test(Locale.KOREA);
     void test(Locale l)     {
          System.out.println("--- "+l+", default: "+l.getDefault());
          try {
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     public URL getResource(String s)     {
          System.out.println("getResource("+s+")");
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}output:
--- en_GB, default: en_US
getResource(Messages.properties)
getResource(Messages_en.properties)
getResource(Messages_en_GB.properties)
--- ko_KR, default: en_US
getResource(Messages_ko.properties)
getResource(Messages_ko_KR.properties)
getResource(Messages_en_US.properties)

Quizzing problems - Matching question - answers not accurate ++

Really getting frustrated with proofing a matching question (have tried it in both Cpt3 and 4)
Attempting to use: Drop down style
1. Correct answers not reproducing Correct response. in Capt 4
2. in Capt 3, the answers are not showing up at all in the drop down box, thus no responses either.
help is appreciated
thanks
Grayley

Some pointers:
[list]
[*]don't use relative URL's that are rooted at the "slash", especially if you're running Apache/JServ. The Apache/JServ has a buggy version of getRealPath() -- a servlet API method -- and it doesn't return the right information for URL's like this. Best is to always use fully-relative URL's.
[*]Removing the namespace is not the right way to go. You have to make sure that you declare a namespace prefix in the stylesheet that uses the exact same namespace URI as the one you're trying to match against, then you MUST use prefix-qualified names like xxx:Foo/xxx:Bar/xxx:Baz to match elements with qualified names in the particular namespace.
[list]
For example, if your source XML looks like:

<data xmlns="x-schema:http://www.schemas.multex.com/glearnestapisrv.xdr">
<row>
<ename>Steve</ename>
</row>
</data>Then you stylesheet needs to look like this to match the <row>/<data>/<ename> element:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xxx="x-schema:http://www.schemas.multex.com/glearnestapisrv.xdr">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:for-each select="xxx:data/xxx:row/xxx:ename">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>Steve Muench
Development Lead, Oracle XSQL Pages Framework
Lead Product Manager for BC4J and Lead XML Evangelist, Oracle Corp
Author, Building Oracle XML Applications
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Used iTunes match and states 2400 songs matched, yet no icloud matching

Used iTunes match and states 2400 songs matched, yet no icloud logos next to my songes except a few indicating duplicates and no songs match to my iphone. Help. I've tried re-matching, turning icloud off/on. no luck. No songs now on iphone. Any suggestestion.

If you right-click on the header bar above your music and select "iCloud Status" it'll show you exactly what their status is and if they've been matched, uploaded or are still waiting to be processed and/or uploaded.
You may need to quit iTunes and relaunch it to kick-start the process again if Match says it's done but your libraries show differently.

Match question. Are deleted songs being streamed to my Mac?

In an attempt to clean up my Mac, after matching and uploading songs, I deleted songs from my Macbook library. If I play songs randomly, those songs that are not on my Mac still play. Are they being redownloaded or are they streamed?

Streamed.

ITunes match question (manual sync and iTunes library)

Hi all
Just noticed that iTunes match is now avaliable in Denmark, and therefore I have a few questions that I can't seem to find answers for elsewhere.
My situation is that I have all my music on a NAS (and on at USB backup drive). Some of the music is in 128 AAC and is 320 mp3.
On my macbook pro I have all of my music converted til 128 AAC so I can fit all of my music on my iPhone (10000 songs). All my music on my iPhone is manage manually through iTunes. I normally 1) add it to itunes, 2) transfer it to iphone and 3) remove the music again from my iTunes library. I mostly just have an empty iTunes library (since i play music from my iPhone and my Sonos system) and just use iTunes for ripping CDs and editing of tags.
Since my iPhone is running out of space, I thought it would be a good idea to have some of my music i iCloud (iTunes match). From what I've read it is not possible to have both music transfered manually from iTunes to my iPhone and at the same time accessing music from Itunes match? What I really would like is to have 20 GB on my iPhone with the rest avaliable through iTunes match (20 GB) for when I need it. Is this possible?
My second and most important question is about the itunes library. What happens if I connect to iTunes macth and afterwards remove all my music from my itunes library? As I just explained I prefer my itunes library to be empty unless i want to transfer music to my iPhone.
Hope you can help me with some answers?
Thánk You.

That info has not been released yet but to venture a guess, I doubt any extraneous info such as comments will be used.
Also, iTunes Match will not use your tags to identify songs. Some algorithm will analyze the audio file to match.

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