Stop songs uploading to iCloud

Is there a way to block , short of deleting , songs from uplaoding to iCloud. I have a large amount of songs that I want to keep on my Mac Pro but do not want to load to the cloud (Christmas songs etc) how can I prevent them from uploading and counting against my 25,000 songs?

Personally I think it's probably an essential feature, anyone who has more than 25,000 tunes in their library, should be able to select which 25,000 get matched.

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Are songs uploaded to iCloud at the bit rate they were recorded?

Hello,
When I rip a CD, I always choose the Apple lossless setting.
Suppose I rip a CD on my MacBook Pro. When I upload these ripped songs into iCloud and then play them on another Apple device--say my iMac--and then download them there, are they downloaded at the original lossless setting?
In other words, do I lose any sonic quality by playing on one device a song I've ripped and uploaded on another?
Thank you.

Okay. Something has changed since last February or somebody got it wrong.
Chris CA wrote:
If the songs are not matched, they will be uploaded/downloaded/streamed as lossless.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17573191 - "iTunes Match does not properly handle lossless files. If it can match them, you get the Store's 256 version. If it cannot match them, it creates a 256 version and uploads that. Either way, you have lost the benefit of the lossless file."

Will a song uploaded to iCloud via iTunes Match be deleted if the song is deleted locally?

Is it safe to remove songs from iTunes to free up space on one's hard drive after they have been uploaded to iTunes Match? That is, will the song in iCloud be deleted if the song is deleted locally?
Thanks.

I think iTunes Match is still in beta so I wouldn't do that unless I was sure of my personal backups. I'm not sure I would do that even if iTunes Match wasn't in beta. At least not for several months to let the service shake out problems first.
Edit: I didn't find the words Beta on any Apple documentation so I think that part is wrong. I was taking Chris Breen's word for it from Macworld.com but he might have meant it ironically. But as I said, I still would be hesitant to delete from my library just yet.

Upload of iTunes library on iCloud don't stop and the new songs not on icloud ? help (mac user)

the upload from my library on iclous don't stop... hours and hours, and the new songs not on icloud ? why ?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Hours and hours is not all that uncommon for large libraries, how large is yours.

How to get songs back on iTunes once uploaded to iCloud & deleted off hard drive?

I have my 10,000 song library saved on an external hard drive. I got the subscription to help limit used space on my laptop hard drive. I started iTunes Match with my entire library (external drive) and uploaded my entire 10,000 songs. Once completed I deleted everything from my iTunes program & unplugged my external.
Now my computer has absolutely no songs on it and I now expected to have access to my entire 10,000 song library from the cloud. Once restarting my computer and iTunes I opened a library of all my songs visible in iCloud with download buttons but I was unable to actually click & download any of the songs that showed.
I turned off iTunes Match from the "Store" menu and turned it back on. Now my library is completely empty but when I check the iTunes Match tab it tells me that I have 10,000 songs in iCloud waiting for me.
How do I get my songs???????

This sounds like an issue of the local iTunes client getting confused about the location and status of the library.
To use iTunes with all Song files on an external disk is straightforward if you have instructed it to find the Song files in that location.
A good route would be to connect the external hard drive such that iTunes client can see all your Song files as normal - check that you can both play your Songs and complete an Update iTunes Match.
Assuming all is well at this point you can instruct the iTunes client to delete all Songs keeping files and not requesting iCloud deletion. At this stage all Songs should appear with a working download indicator against them.
If you now switch off iTunes Match. Restart the iTunes client and create a new blank local library store on your computers internal disk, then switch on iTunes Match - all Songs will now appear. You can complete a test download, it will simply store to your new library location. From here you have the state you wished, all Songs accessible from the iCloud - with the ability to download should you choose.

All my Garage Band songs are gone in the app after I uploaded to iCloud.

All my Garage Band songs are gone in the app after I uploaded to iCloud. Where can I retrieve the songs? iCloud doesn't show any Garage Band folder backup. Help please!!!

Is your GarageBand version up to date? If not, upgrade to the latest version. also, you coud try to reset GarageBand to the factory settings. That brought my iCloud projects back.
Open the "Settings" app on your iPad and scroll down to the applications. Open the GarageBand settings and set "Reset GarageBand" to on.
BTW: If there are network problems it sometimes may take a very long time, before the song is downloaded from the cloud again. That is why I never upload the original to iCloud - I duplicate the song and share only a copy to iCloud. Once I am sure the upload has been successful and the cloud version is working I delete the original.
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Léonie

HT4914 I have several songs in my ITunes library that show as ineligible to be uploaded to ICloud, even though most of them were purchased through the ITunes Store. Has anyone else experienced this and figured out why?

I have several songs in my ITunes library that show as ineligible to be uploaded to ICloud via Match, even though most of them were purchased through the ITunes Store. Has anyone else experienced this and figured out why?

I had the exact same issue!! Seriously p*ssed me off when I checked out my ITunes purchased items (via my computer) and noticed that most of the additional tracks listed on my IPhone playlist was listed there too. However, I never authorized any purchases!! (I have actually written Apple Support asking for a full refund of all tracks listed on my purchased list)
Be careful when you swipe your finger to the left/right on those "additional" tracks on your IPhone playlist... I'm pretty sure that the cloud symbol is an option to download or automatically buy those tracks.
Solution for the problem:
1 - go to your IPhone settings
2 - choose "iTunes & App Store"
3 - go to "Show All" & "Music"
4 - turn off "Music" by moving the bar to the left (it should be a white color once you turn it off)
Should solve your problem :~)

How do I stop movies from uploading to iCloud, How do I stop movies from uploading to iCloud

I don't want ecery show I buy to be uploaded to iCloud how do I stop it?

you are on the appleTV generation 2 forum.. is this an appleTV generation 1 problem?
if it is a gen 1 question.. that is how the it is supposed to work.. appleTV 1s cannot be backed up so after a sync is performed items will get synced back to the linked computer (where it can be backed up) where it can be synced back to the appleTV (will be in two locations) or can be streamed to the appleTV.. if that didn't happen you could possibly lose all the content sitting on your appleTV gen 1 if you had a hard drive failure or had to restore you appleTV.
appleTV gen 1 is not intended as a archive for media, only as a temporary location to mirror some portion of the content sitting on the iTunes folder sitting on the linked iTunes library.. it functions exactly like an synced iPod.. not like an external hard drive
this is the kind of confusion relating to how appleTV functioned is why i believe apple went to a much simpler streaming only model in appleTV generation 2
in any case if this is an appleTV 1 question.. you are on the wrong forum..

How can you stop burst photos from uploading to iCloud Photo Library

So I took around 500 burst photos with my phone and deleted them right after but they still appear to be uploading to iCloud Photo Library. I have upload burst photos turned off in settings but they're still uploading. How can I turn this off and stop burst photos from uploading?

We aren't allowed to discuss beta software in this forum according to the hosts. Try the Developers forum.

HT204053 I have a problem. I bought Pages and Numbers for my iMac and so far everything was OK. Suddenly i have a problem with connection to iCloud. Dokuments created on iMac in Pages or Numbers are not transfered to iCloud. Not uploaded in iCloud.

I have a problem.
I bought Pages and Numbers for my iMac and so far everything was OK.
Suddenly i have a problem with connection to iCloud.
Dokuments created on iMac in Pages or Numbers are not transfered to iCloud. Not uploaded to iCloud. There is a sign (small shape of iCloud), that they are waiting to be uploaded to iCloud.
I think the iCloud is OK.
i can see and manage documents in iCloud. i can create them on iPad and see them and delete them in iCloud.
But not on iMac.
i dont know what has happened and I am not abble to find the solution. It was OK till some days ago….

I have a similar problem! Everything stopped working after upgrading to Mac OS 10.8.4 through the App Store. Help!

Itunes match; a) if incorrect genre etc data has been uploaded to icloud, cannot delete it or replace the track/ data b) now have 9k tracks "stuck" in icloud and cannot delete them no matter what I do. eh?

Hi
I;m having so itunes match issues.
I ran itunes match. I';ve since foumd, I think:
a) if incorrect genre etc data has been uploaded to icloud, I cannot find how to delete it and reupload correct song and data. I am presently assuming that once songs are matched, the meta-data, genre, etc etc thats uploaded is now treated as 'the master' by itunes.
Question: if I want to change the genre on a track, whats the correct way to overwrite the data held in the icloud? if I delete the track i just bring down the old incorrect genres again!
b) I've deleted from the icloud all my music tracks (select all, delete, Y to delete tracks from icloud). I have turned off itunes match on my ipad, iphone, appletv mac and windows pc. I've deleted the itunes library files too from mac and pc in desperation. But hours /days later, when I turn on itunes match on mac or pc, it tells me i still have 9k tracks in icloud. All with the old, wrong meta-data ready to mess up my [now-corrected] files back on my pc!
I cannot delete them no matter what I do. The number of tracks in the cloud was 12k, now 9k so its reducing, by about 1500 tracks a day.
does it really take itunes servers that long to delete the tracks I've asked it to delete, or am i seeing garbage data?
is there a quicker way of deleting all my itunes match library, songs and data?

Thanks for the helpful replies.
My original intention was to 'upgrade' some of my tracks. In those cases, I'd iTunes matched, and the process was completed.
I later downloaded those new tracks but found during that process, the tracks I was downloading had the old metadata.
I guess the idea there is to update the local genres, 'update iTunes match' and wait. How long, I don't know but that's the current solution,yes ?
Thing is I was trying to get my local library updated and, as I thought it, back in order, but was finding my local genre updates were being overwritten. I had a lot of tracks that kept on stating they could be downloaded so I thought the new files hadn't been copied down...
I think I was trying to get match to do too many things at once.
Deleting my tracks in the cloud? Was an act of desperation to start over with all known good genres locally and to re- upload, start over. I'd read in some forum or other to do that, I guess that was wrong,
Ok so I will.. Err,
A wait and see how long it takes to delete my tracks in the cloud ie let it complete the process I'd already started.
B Correct my local tracks genres
C Wait til those changes propagate up to the iCloud ( or whatever the right term is)
Q1: How long should I wait for A and C to complete?
Q2: Is it 100% definite that local genre changes will get copied up to the cloud, when I 'update iTunes match'?
I don't see any animated cloud icon, but I will watch for it!
Thanks again
Iain

HT204406 Although I have subscribed to ITunes Match my ipad setting only states under Settings Music, to subscribe to iTunes Match. But i have subscribed. i have played the downloaded songs from the icloud, too, and when i turn off my computer, the ipad m

I subscribed to Music Match with iTunes and yet my ipad settings for Music only still has the option to subscribe, and therefore I cannot click on an option to Activagte iTunes Match, since it is not there. I have all the right number of songs from the icloud showing up in my ipad now, and I have played a few, but when I tried to turn off the computer, it showed a field stating that my ipad music would stop playing too, and it did. I thought this might have something to do with homesharing, but this I thought was something separate from iCloud.
There is something wrong, but I don't understand what. It has just synced, but the problem persists.

Home sharing is separate from iTunes Match. Sounds like you were playing music using home sharing, which turned off when you turned off your computer.
Open iTunes on your computer and go to the Store menu. Confirm that there is a setting called Turn Off iTunes Match. That will confirm that iTunes Match is enabled on your computer. Then check to see what Apple ID you subscribed to iTunes Match with. It will be the ID in Store>View Account (in parentheses).
On your iPad, confirm that you are signed in with this same ID in Settings>iTunes & App Store (at the top). If so, you should see an iTunes Match setting listed with an on/off slider. Slide it on to enable iTunes Match on your iPad.

Number of "songs available in iCloud" problem

Everytime I update iTunes Match the number of "songs available in iCloud" is 1 extra to the amount of songs in iTunes on my Mac.
For instance I currently have 12089 in iTunes, but updating iTunes Match always says I have 12090 songs available in iCloud.
The weird thing is, if I turn on Match on my iPhone or PC they show the correct number of 12089 songs.
Has anyone experienced this? What can I do to fix it?

So the results are:
Desktop Smart Playlist: 3946 Desktop iTunes Match: 3953
Laptop Smart Playlist: 3946 Laptop iTunes Match: 3953
Beatunes on Laptop: 3946
Conclusion: iTunes Match requires some time (12 hours overnight in this instance) to give a stable result on library content. Beatunes had been running on the laptop in concert with iTunes (iTunes Match enabled).
Assertion: iTunes Match has to be hosted in a distributed form to allow for the massive parallel processing to support the user community. The replication of consistent information across the respective servers / datacentres needs time. It is quite possible that the desktop and laptop had affiliated to separate Apple computing resource.
Outcome: Worth not being alarmed by apparent minor variation in iTunes Match results on Song count. For my library 3946 is an accurate count of the number of Songs, 3953 accounts for other items and a few potential songs with iCloud Status other than Matched, Purchased or Uploaded.

Journal Upload to iCloud doesn't work

Hi! I want to Share a Journal from iPhoto to iCloud, so that I can Share a link to Others. But some how, during the Upload to iCloud the uploadbar Stops at One Point and the Loading Wheel keeps Spinning forever. I have some Files in iCloud, but the link in Safari doesn't Show the photos. Also the File size in iCloud Sems to small. It's like ist Beginns to Upload and then Stops at some Point. I have an iPad Mini and the beweist iOS Update. I trief many Suggestionen in the Internet but nothing wirkend. Can someone give me a hint?

the upload bar stops at some point
There are two reasons that I can think of:
You may have exceeded an upload limit, see iCloud: Photo Stream limits; in that case you will just have to wait a bit, before you can start uploading again.
Or one of the photos in your journal is corrupted and cannot be uploaded. Then you will have to find the item that is causing the problem - try to create a small test journal with different photos and try to publish that. Can you publish journals at all, or does only your particular journal not work?
To check for bad pictures or the layout of your Journal you miht try to share the journal to iTunes instead, if you have a mac:
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I can i tell that my itunes match worked and itunes songs are in iCloud

Itunes is on a Windows PC running Windows 7

I think they were trying to ask, do do they tell if their songs are in the cloud in windows 7.
Easiest way is to enable iTunes Match on you're iPod, iPhone or iPad in the settings then turn show all music to on in the music settings also and it will show you all songs in the cloud.
Or no the PC/iTunes in the music section, right click on the column titles up the top ie where it says song name, artist etc and enable the cloud or cloud status field and it will tell you if a song has been matched or uploaded to iCloud.
Ones that say matched or uploaded are in iCloud, ones that say waiting or nothing or something else aren't in the cloud.
Right click on a song that says matched or uploaded and pick delete. If is in the cloud a extra tick box shows up that says something like 'also delete from iCloud'. If it has that option when you attempt to delete a song from iTunes then it means the song is on your PC and also iCloud.
If you pick to delete the song but don't tick delete from cloud it will delete from the PC and leave it in iCloud.
If you also tick the box it's deleted everywhere.

Stop songs uploading to iCloud

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