Updating iCloud status of uploaded songs?

I have old files encoded though iTunes at 128kbps that iTunes Match doesn't match and has uploaded. I have decided to import these files again in a higher quality to standardise my library at 256kbps, the problem being that I don't know how to change the status of the files that I have changed? I don't want to delete the songs from my library as I'll lose all my play counts. First album I'm doing this with is Mos Def 'Black on Both Sides' which for some strange reason isn't in the iTunes store.
Thanks for any help.

The easiest thing to do is when you import the new files over write the existing ones with the new ones. That will maintain all the metadata. Getting them to update in the cloud may be tricky. The best thing to do is after you get the new files ripped just run the Update iTunes Match command in the Store menu. This may accomplish what you want to do.
If it does not, you'll need to create a new iTunes library by holding down the Option key which launching iTunes. Enable iTunes Match on the new library, let it do it's scan, then find the music and delete it, making sure to use the Update iTunes Match command. Then switch back to the main library. Let the scan do it's thing where you will probably see the songs you just deleted from the cloud get a status of "removed." Highlight all of them, right+click and choose "add to cloud."
That should take care of it.

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I found the answer. I was viewing my Music Library in List view. When I changed it to View>Album List the columns appeared. This may be a bug.

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I have about 250 songs (out of over 5000) that fail to upload to iCloud via matching.
They show an error symbol in the song list and if you click on it it says something like "could not be uploaded because an error occured."
It then eventually shows iCloud status of "waiting."
There doesn't appear to be any pattern to the songs with this problem.
Songs are mostly AAC audio files with a few MP3.
Some songs are just one or two from an album that has successfully uploaded or been matched.
I've tried deleting the songs from the cloud, converting them to mp3 and readding, but it doesn't work.
I've tried turning off itunes match and back on again. No difference.
This basically means I've spent a lot of money so I can't play 250 songs on my iOS devices.
All rather anoying.
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Hi,
If i am not in understanding you are uploading the data intothe ods first and then to the infocube which both the extractions are delta right?
And your load is failing int he ODS stage am i right?
If i am right. And if this is a delta load to the ODS, you have to wait until the loading job in the background finishes. When the technical status of the request is yellow we should never force red to remove it. If you want to remove the req then first you have to kill the process associated with it.
As you mentioned, in the reconstruction tab you can see some requets in status yellow. Kindly kill the processes associated with it and force it to red and then make a repeat delta to ODS.
Then you can activate and further load it to the data target.
Hope this helps
Janardhan Kumar

HT204406 I purchased an album from itunes, and put it in a playlist. icloud status lists all the songs as purchased, and when I click on "Update itunes Match", this playlist will not update. There is a cloud to the right of the playlist name.

I purchased an album from the itunes store, and put it in a playlist. icloud status listed all the songs as purchased, instead of the usual "Waiting". When I clicked on "Update itunes Match", everything updated except this playlist. There is a cloud to the right of the playlist name. This has never happened before.
Any ideas?

I deleted the songs from my desktop (iMac), then I used itunes match to reload the songs back on my desktop from my laptop. When they reappeared on my desktop, then I right-clicked on the songs and clicked on the option to add to icloud. This however did not work, and they just duplicated into icloud, but they were "greyed out" and unuseable. I hope I'm explaining myself clearly? In other words, the songs seem to be trying to go into the cloud, but they are greyed out in my library and cannot download. It is as if they are ghosts? My songs do play fine when I transfer them via itunes match, and everything appears normal. They just won't transfer via the cloud. As I said before, every other song in my library always work fine via the could, but only the songs off this one album that I bought from itunes in 07' will not work???

How to upload song to icloud

I have 3 CD's I purchased and improted to itunes. Songs play great on my computer. Moved all songs into iCloud so I can play on my apple TV. Most play fine on the TV, but these I mentioned above appear normally on the playlists etc, but get error messages when I try to play on the TV. Song not available and then no content.
The icloud status on itunes is blank.
How do I get these to upload so they will play?
I have tried synching and updating my cloud etc with no luck.
What is the problem?

Do you have iTunes Match enabled, if no that is the reason why.

ITunes Match leaves ripped songs in multiple iCloud status states

Itunes Match seems to have made a complete mess of my Library. I had to restart match several times, and in the end it looked like it was about to complete but when I came back to it, I found that is had started the whole matching process again. Now I see most of my songs ripped from CD duplicated in multiple iCloud states. Most of my ripped songs appear duplicated as Uploaded and also as greyed out Waiting status. Some appear duplicated as Uploaded and Matched. Some of my music is duplicated as both in Matched state, one with the iCloud download option and other without. As far as I can tell, nearly all my own ripped tracks appear as duplicates with different iClouds status in one form or another. Purchased tracks from iTunes are fine with no duplicates. What a mess!
I seems that during these multiple attempts to match iCloud was getting different results each time and I ended up with a hodgepodge of duplicates. I have tried quitting iTunes and coming back in. I have updated match, it went quickly and made no changes. I have turned off match and then put it back on (prompted to add the computer) - no change.   How do I clean out this mess?
Note: I worked with a separate iTunes Library to to the match. My main library contains songs in both AAC and Apple Lossless formats. I first tried matching that library and realized that it was going to give me duplicates. So I created a new empty Library and deleted my iCloud tracks to reset it. Then I opened a custom library with just my AAC format files to do the match. This seemed to work although as I noted it got stock a couple times and then seemed to repeat the match process in the end. Note these multiple libraries point to the same media files. Fortunately it doesn't look like I have lost any original tracks, but the display is very messy with all the duplicates.
Are these iCloud states stored locally where I could delete a file and then reopen the library I wish to match and update the matches to refresh the iCloud status and hopefully clear out all the duplicate listings? I am hoping I don't need to start over since this took two days to do. But if I do, what must be done to start from a clean state. In addition to clearing out iCloud via deleting from an empty library, are there other local files that need to be purged?

Don't feel bad -- I'm running iTM on Windows XP and it's clearly not listed as supported either.       Are some of those dups greyed out? I've had that issue if I tried to match and then killed the process before it completed. If so, you might need to clear all them out before you re-run.   In other words, if you create a new library and see a bunch of iCloud stuff when you enable iTM, you might want to go through and clean up iCloud before you attempt any more local matching on your end.
The only real problem I see with 10.5.8 (or XP for that matter) is that if you contact Apple directly, they might suggest upgrading as the first step since it's not listed as supported.   Unfortunately it is what it is and Apple, like any other large tech company has to set EOL dates for certain OS's.

Uploading songs to iCloud via iTunes Match from multiple computers?

I've already setup match on my Windows 7 Desktop, and have uploaded iTunes match and everything worked out well there.
The problem I have arises when I connect my second device (OS X Lion laptop) to the same iTunes match account. The library appears and I can download songs from iCloud just fine, but iTunes match does not try to upload music from the 2nd library that did not exist on the first.
Is this a known feature limitation? Was iTunes match only designed to upload from one and deposit on many? or is it upload from all download to all?

Thanks Mike.
I also called Apple support and got the same answer. Theoretically it should work, but if it isn't a few things might help:
1. try re-associating the iTunes account to the 2nd source
2. try updating the icloud via: Store -> Update iTunes Match
3. try removing the songs from your iLibrary (you may or may not get a "Delete from iCloud", even if the songs are not showing up in iCloud, and then re-add to your library by finding the files via Finder and dragging them into the library.
The 3rd step solved my problem. Apple support said this may be an issue but the manual re-addition is what fixed it for me.
Also, there is a 25,000 song cap and 250mb/file cap on any uploads.
Good luck others,

TS4124 how do sync a book that I have added as music to itunes on my iMac and then listen to this book on my iPhone. Itunes says the icloud status is waiting so the song(book) is in the process of being matched but has not yet been processed. (no help t

how do sync a book that I have added as music to itunes on my iMac and then listen to this book on my iPhone. Itunes says the icloud status is waiting so the song(book) is in the process of being matched but has not yet been processed. (no help there)

Hi,
Why are you trying to add a book as music? It will not match as this only applies to music files. It will be uploaded if the bit rate is 96 Kbps or greater.
You should change media type to audiobook and you will be able to sync by wifi or USB.
Jim

Can i delete songs from ipod touch once i upload them to icloud, can i delete songs from ipod touch once i upload them to icloud

once you upload songs,photos or documents fron ipod touch to icloud, can you delete them from ipod touch to free up memory from ipod touch and can you access them from icloud without downloading to ipod?

You can't upload music to iCloud unless you are an iTunes Match subscriber, and if you are the songs are uploaded or matched from the iTunes library on your computer, not your device. Photos are only uploaded to Photo Stream temporarily (30 days), for up to 1000 photos so it's not meant to be a permanent storage option. The uploaded photos are also generally of lower quality than the originals on your device. Also, only photos taken on your device after turning on Photo Stream are uploaded. Finally, when you turn Photo Stream on, uploaded photos will be streamed back to your device in a Photo Stream album (so it actually uses some of your memory rather than saving it). As for documents, only iWork documents are uploaded.
If you really want to free up storage on your device consider more permanent cloud storage services such as DropBox (which will handle photos and all documents).

TS4124 Hi, do you know how can I upload inelegible songs from itunes to Icloud. They are songs added from original CDs. Another question would be how can I transfer all the music I have in my Ipod Classic to my Itunes or ICloud as I want to back it up.

Hi, do you know how can I upload inelegible songs from itunes to Icloud. They are songs added from original CDs. Another question would be how can I transfer all the music I have in my Ipod Classic to my Itunes or ICloud as I want to back it up.

Depends on why it's ineligible. If it's under 96 Kpbs, try right-clicking on the file and choosing Create AAC Version. (If you don't see this option, go to iTunes>Preferences, click "Import Settings..." then choose "Import Using: AAC Encoder" and "Setting: iTunes Plus".) Then rescan your library to see if this version will add to iTunes Match. Or, after changing your import setting, just re-import the song to your iTunes library.
If the song is over 200 MB you would have to reduce it's size to make it eligible.

Can't update my iPod 30gb vision + problem uploading songs on it.

I could upload songs to my iPod in the beginning, but then I connected the iPod with iTunes on a mac and from that time I'm not able to upload any new songs on it anymore.
So I downloaded the new itunes V 7 to see if it maybe would work with it, but mij iPod needs to be updated to be able to show up in the new iTunes, but I can't get it updated and I always get this error when I open iTunes:
'The software for communicating with the iPod is not installed correctly. Please reinstall iTunes to install the iPod software'
Which is ******** because it worked with the older version of iTunes.
Anyone have had this problem?
Pard'me for my English btw.
Thnx in advance

Have you checked out these two documents which address the issue?
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I need to know why songs in my library show and ICLOUD status of "waiting" and I can never play them.

I need to know why songs in my library show and ICLOUD status of "waiting" and I can never play them.

The same thing happened to me.
1. You will need to know the location of your iTunes library for later, the default is under music under your username. If its not there find it and remember where it is for later.
2. Then you have to exit iTunes and create a new empty library. To do this hold the option key when you open iTunes. Choose create Library on the pop up dialogue. Create the library anywhere on your system, you can delete the entire library once you have completed your iCloud changes.
3. When the library opens in iTunes it will be empty. Click on iTunes Match and click the start button. after it finishes all of the songs on your iCloud match account will be listed under music.
4. you can select up to 1000 at a time and delete them.
5. when you have deleted everything close iTunes and open again holding the option key and navigate to your original library, usually in the music folder under your username. You should be all set and can click iTunes match again and your account will be populated with the ones in your current library.
6. You can navigate to the temp library you created in finder and delete it as it is no longer needed.
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Why does Match list the iCloud status of iTunes purchased songs as "Exceeded Limit"?

Why does Match list the iCloud status of iTunes purchased songs as "Exceeded Limit"?

because you have loaded over 25,000 songs to the icloud library. to find out exactly what is in icloud from itunes match follow these directions to create a blank itunes library and load only the itunes match songs from icloud.
1. You will need to know the location of your iTunes library for later, the default is under music under your username. If its not there find it and remember where it is for later.
2. Then you have to exit iTunes and create a new empty library. To do this hold the option key when you open iTunes. Choose create Library on the pop up dialogue. Create the library anywhere on your system, you can delete the entire library once you have completed your iCloud changes.
3. When the library opens in iTunes it will be empty. Click on iTunes Match and click the start button. after it finishes all of the songs on your iCloud match account will be listed under music.
if you want to delete some or all songs from icloud so you can re-sync itunes match to show the songs in your current library fowwow this.
4. you can select up to 1000 at a time and delete them.
5. when you have deleted what you want, close iTunes and open again holding the option key and navigate to your original library, usually in the music folder under your username. You should be all set and can click iTunes match again and your account will be populated with the ones in your current library.
6. You can navigate to the temp library you created in finder and delete it as it is no longer needed.

How do I enable 'iCloud Status' view in iTunes 11.1?

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Hi,
In addition to Michael's comments, try closing iTunes and re opening.
On one occasion after I readded match, iCloud status was missing from view options. Relaunch solved problem.
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Cannot upload songs to iTunes Match

Hi all,
I have the account for something more than a year. After a year of uploading tracks and updating my Library i managed to keep only the songs i am interested in and removed all the duplicates. That was a good time to clear my itunes match and re-upload-match everthing that i have now in my Library of the local computer. I managed to clear the itunes match librady in the cloud and now it says in all my devices that i have no content. Though, when i "Update itunes match" it scans my libray and says "Your itunes library is now available in iCloud. No songs are available in icloud" even though i have in my local library aprox 7000 songs. Does anyone has this problem? Any solution to upload/match again?

Hi again,
I had already the view you advised open. Well here are the different statuses i have:
1)Duplicate (almost 50%)
2)Ineligible (only 20 songs)
3)Removed from icloud (the other 50%)
I have no song with no status at all. Though, the ones that are marked as duplicates are not duplicates in my library. It is like it still finds them in icloud even though icloud is empty with songs
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