Why is itunes Match so different?

is itunes match different than syncing your device and computer? Also Match can hold 25,000 songs but when you play them don't you download them and put them on your device anyway?
thanks
david

I don't know. Ask Apple and see if they tell you.

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Why does iTunes Match download songs that I skip?

I haven't seen this question posted yet, but feel free to direct me to any pertinent posts.
I've been using iTunes Match for the last couple days, and all in all I really enjoy the service. There is one issue that I've yet to see addressed on these boards yet though; why is iTunes Match downloading songs that I skip? I listen to all my music in random, so occasionally there will be a song I just don't want to hear at the moment. I assumed that if I don't listen to a song completely that it would not be downloaded to my device. Not true apparently. I was able to use about half a gig of data in a few hours just by skipping songs. Every song that was skipped, even if I didn't hear a single second of it, was downloaded (at an average size of 5-8 MB). I sincerely hope this is just a bug and not a 'feature'.
Any insight on this would be appreciated.

I have noticed this too. I filled up my phone VERY fast yesterday.
and deleting is not easy, lots of left swipe DELETE action, took a while.

Why does iTunes Match cause iTunes to crash ?

Why does iTunes Match cause iTunes to crash ?

My problem is similar. It began right after I allowed an Adobe update to run. (Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.45.2 is recorded in my Registry.) Now every single website I try to open triggers a window (see below) and repeats many times.
It makes no difference whether I "Allow" or not. I think it runs this window for every flash object on that website. It is occurring while I enter this post!
It makes using the Internet MOST challenging. Surely this is causing major problems for everyone.
I have IE8 on Windows Vista.
Here's the text from the message:
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This program will open outside of Protected Mode. Internet Explorer's Protected Mode helps protect your computer. If you do not trust this website, do not open this program.
Name: Adobe Flash Player
Publisher: Adobe Systems Incorporated
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buttons: Allow Do Not Allow"
Should I appeal to Microsoft or Adobe for a solution? Is is possible to install the previous version?
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Why no iTunes Match in Israel

Everything Apple is available in Israel but STILL Apple chooses to limit its services, like iTunes Match and iBooks (except free books) here. Apple computers and devices are two to three time the price of the same thing in the USA but we are denied access to services which are basically part of the reason that makes Mac, iPods, iPhones and iPads "special".
Why?

Once again, thank you for your interest and thoughts. I couldn't agree with you more about the lack of competition due to sole franchises. Apple has given iDigital the sole franchise for Israel and, while they do hold stock of Apple products, they will only supply individual units to other stores after an order and deposit has been paid. This does not apply to iPads and iPhones though. They do supply the stores and other firms are also importing themselves. The problem with doing this with computers is a thing called a keyboard which, I am sure you are quite aware of. I suppose one could also buy one from outside and put letter stickers on it, Hebrew, Arabic, etc., but they peel off and are ugly. However, the killer with buying on-line is the shipping cost which gets added to VAT.
I took your advice and checked out the Apple Store price for my MacBook Pro (non Retina) in Belgium. The price there is NIS 7,344 compared to NIS 8,199 here and that includes 23% VAT. I was in Belgium in June and, while I didn't check the prices of MacBooks and iMacs, I did notice that the other Apple goodies are about the same price as here.
With other brands of computers running Windows or Android, the situation is totally different. There is huge competition and all sorts of deals are available.
In conclusion then, it appears that we who are now "grown-ups" and have migrated to Mac, will just have to live with the higher prices. By the way, my first Apple was an Apple II Plus in 1980 with 64 KB or RAM and two external Apple Disk Drives!
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Frank.

Why does itunes match delete all songs from my iPhone leaving me music less in the mountains! :(

i went through a drive through the mountains recently needless to say with out radio, only sourse of music... my precious iphone. well aparently after i had subscribed to itunes match it felt the need to go behind my back and delete all the songs i had previously on my phone! *** apple? i had to do an emergency pull over and yank out my macbook and when i pluged it in sure as could be no music stored on the phone so i was apparently streaming music chewing up a huge chunk of my data in little over two hours!i had to shut off itunes match on the macbook and the iphone and sync again just to get some music!!!
There has to have a solution!! why did it do this? Did anybody else have similiar issues?

I have the same problem and I'm not sure this addresses it. I want to subscribe to iTunes match using my Mac; the intention being that I can then remove all the subset of my tunes from the ipad mini, and when travelling listen to music on the iPad mini via iTunes Match.
So the question still remains, does the music stored on my iPad mini get automatically removed when i subscribe to iTunes Match, or do I have to remove it??
Also, my iPad mini is showing that 1.8GB of storage is taken up by music at the moment, will all of this be freed if I subscribe to iTunes match and delete the music (irrespective of whether this is done manually or via an automatic delete).
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Why can't I play purchased movies on my Apple TV? And why does iTunes match not work on my Apple TV?

I have an Apple TV (early 2012) and bought some movies in the iTunes store. Now, Apple TV doesn't let me watch my purchased content. I very well can listen to music I have bought in the iTunes store and watch the purchased movies on my iphone 6 (running the latest iOS 8) and on my MacBook Air (running the latest version of Yosemite). I can also rent movies on Apple TV and watch them - no problem at all.
The other problem I have is that I activated iTunes Match on my Apple TV. But it doesn't work either. On my Mac and on my iphone - there's no problem. On Apple TV instead there is always appearing the message, that it will take a couple of minutes to setup iTunes Match on Apple TV. Well... that is too nice to be true! It takes hours and even after that it doesn't work at all.
I checked the forums and tried different things:
1. Updating my Apple TV's software to the latest release
2. Restoring all settings of my Apple TV and taking it offline (meaning: logging out of iTunes on Apple TV and taking it off power)
3. Restarting my modem and router after half a minute break and taking it off power.
4. Setting up Apple TV again and reconnecting it with iTunes and my WLAN-router.
5. I also wanted to Airplay the screen of my MAC or iphone to Apple TV -> doesn't work (even though I can watch the movies on this two devices without any problems). Other content can be airplayed to Apple TV without any problems as well.
-> Nothing seems to work!
When I tried to play the moves the following to messages appear:
1. iTunes is currently unavailable. Try again later. (But Apple TV recognizes how much of the movie has been watched already. It indicates that it is connecting and authorizing... and after that the message above appears). OR
2. Apple TV says that the movie will be ready to be watched in two hours from now... or that you have to chose a lower resolution, if you want to watch it any sooner.
Does anyone face the same difficulties? And of course: Does anyone know any cure and salvation for my Apple TV? ;-)
Thanks so much for your assistance!

There's an issue currently that a lot of us are experiencing in that we all get the error message "iTunes is currently unavailable; please try later"
It's an issue with Apple and we're awaiting an update re this
I've posted a topic in regards to this after having a long conversation with Apple support this morning and will be receiving a call from their tech team tomorrow to run through it further
As it stands iTunes cannot be accessed via ATV's and nor can it be streamed via AirPlay from iTunes to the ATV
However I can access all films/iCloud content via my Mac Mini with no issues!

ICloud and iTunes Match with different Apple IDs

I won't bore you with how it happened, but I ended up with two AppleID accounts using two different email addresses, one for iCloud (upgraded from MobileMe) and one for iTunes. I enabled iTunes Match before realizing this, and now my iPhone and iPad won't work with iTunes Match. If I change the iPhone/iPad to use the iTunes account, I don't have iCloud. Can I merge two accounts? Or is there a way to change my iTunes Match to the same account used for iCloud?
Help!

I tried doing this because I have the same problem, but I can't log in to iCloud with my regular apple ID. For some reason it needs to be an email address. Any other ideas?

How can I use two account in iTunes Match of different countrys

I do have two ID accounts, USA and MEXICO, just the one in Mexico is activated with iTunes Match, last week I was in USA and i bought 1 cd, when i tryied to find my music (Mexicos ID) there was no music, I checked at the config and activated again de Mexico´s ID and the iTunes Match... the the CD was gone. I logged to my US ID again, purchased again the cd (it just download) and I sync to my computer and I said that I have to copy the CD manually (I don´t know how) and when i tried to activate my Mexico´s account it appearead a message that I have to wait 90 days. IT IS THE SAME IPHONE!!!! Why do I have to wait 90 days to get mi iTunes Match music in the device i got it?!?!?!?!?!?!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4627?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
When you turn on iTunes Match or Automatic Downloads, or when you download past purchases on an iOS device or computer, that device or computer becomes associated with your Apple ID. This article describes how to manage these associations.
You must wait the 90 days.

Why is iTunes Match not available in India

Can anyone tell me why match is not available in India.
I am English but live in India As I no longer have a UK credit card I cant even change my country back to UK

Michael is correct. While iTunes Match has been rolled out in many countries, India certainly is not the only country where it is not yet available.

ITunes Match showing different content on different devices

I have recently signed up for itunes match and have connected three devices as follows:
Windows 7 x64 PC running latest itunes 10.5.2.11
Apple ipad version 1 64gig 3G with iOS 5.01
iPhone 3GS 16gig with iOS 5.01
I have matched 4900+ songs from my PC iTunes library with iCloud. I have recently removed all my old music files and re-downloaded the iTunes *.m4a version of every matched song.
I also have uploaded 1000+ songs that were not matched. I have no errors at all... so PC iTunes software appear to be working okay.
My Ipad and iPhone have also been switched over to iTunes Match and I have therefore deleted all 'local' songs on both devices... I then switched on the 'SHOW ALL MUSIC' in the settings of the music app to show the icloud list... but it is different on both my ipad and iphone compared to the PC and compared to each other.
My PC has a total of 5992 music files either matched or uploaded to iCloud
My Ipad shows 5804 music files on icloud
My iPhone has 3632 music files on icloud
Loads of space is confirmed as being available on both devices
I have tried rebooting both ipad and iphone I have switched off/on 'SHOW ALL FILES' in settings to reveal that there are no songs on either the iPad or iPhone so only seeing view of songs on iCloud.
I have turned off/on icloud on both devices and still same file totals.
I have even updated itunes match several times from my PC via itunes store menu.
I have switch on/off itunes Match on my PC... I have even backed up my library deleted all the music both locally and on Icloud and then re-imported and rematched/uploaded all the files again without any errors but both my iPad and iPhone fail to see all files on the icloud.
I have even waited quite some hours to see if they eventually will update but no luck.
I have submitted feedback to apple as a bug report, but if anyone has any suggestions that I can try in the meantime to fix this 'out of sync' issue.
Also on the PC in itunes preferences. I have reset cache and sync history in iTunes but still no joy - it appears that the iphone and ipad are not receiving the current version of my icloud content?

Same problem here. I dont find all songs back on my iphone although i have activated all required items in itunes and on the iphone.
I got a rather big library (16k songs), not everything matched BUT for example i only see Artist starting with "A"... all the other ones are not on my iphone.. very strange.
- Same story under my songs.
- All my playlist on the other hand are shown..
So it would be nice to find out what to do about this...

HT5085 iTunes match in different country than apple id

I have an account in the US iTunes store with no credit card on file. I use only iTunes cards. Will I be able to use iTunes Match subscribing in a country different than the US
Thxs

That should be alright, you just need to sign in with your ID.

Itunes match plays different song

hello, i recently bought itunes match. i succesfully uploaded over 4k songs on the cloud without a problem except one song. well, it seems uploaded first of all, but when i try to play this song from my iphone 4s, it shows every info right (name of the song, album cover etc.) except song itself. it plays completely different song, not even belongs to my library.
is there anybody else have this problem, or anyone got an aswer for this? thank you for your help.

Hi,
I have this song and it has been matched to the version on Special Collection. I have downloaded the matched version and it streams correctly on my Ipad.
I presume you still have the original track on your computer. If so, convert the track to a diffent format such as Apple Lossless. Delete original track from cloud (keep at present), change album title on track to Special Collection and run match.
Alternatively, if you have access to the original disc, delete original track from cloud (keep at present) if still on your computer, import the track on a diffent format such as Apple Lossless, change album title on track to Special Collection and run match.
Using a different format will help you avoid matching the wrong track.
Worth a try.
Jim

ITunes match tracks different volumes from the same album

Using iTunes Match. Among other reported problems, after downloading Matched tracks to my master iTunes library to replace lower bitrate versions, the new tracks from the same album have different loudness or volumes between the tracks. Is this because iTunes Match is matching the songs to different versions of the same album? Where some albums have been 'remastered' or such, that the recorded volume between the albums is different? But instead of matching tracks to the same version of the album, some are being matched to different versions of the same album?
Quite offputting to listen to a single album where track to track loudness changes suddenly.
PS, I'm not using SoundCheck on my Mac.

Same problem here. I'm an "album" kind of music fan and when I'm listening matched albums that the sound quality and voulme changes I get really put off. Case in point B-52's self-titled album: tracks 1,2, 5 & 7, nice and loud; 3, 4, 6, 8 & 9 tiny sounding in comparison...Hello? So far iTunes Match is not worth my money. I'd like to hear form an Apple iTunes Match repersentative to know if this issue will be resolved. As it is, is not very useful. Please fix the problem. Also many of my albums show that a track or a few will not be matched but uploaded to the cloud which means more of my albums will be spotty sounding as tracks will have different bit rate, etc. There is no real excuse for not matching whole albums as oppose to single songs. I read somwhere the 'typical" case of the Beatles "Abbay Road" album not matching "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" on most users. I think is silly to say the less. Albums matching not single songs, please!!!

Can iTunes Match find different music on iPod and MacBook without overwriting one?

I have an iPod nano that has playlists not on any other device. It was synched with a laptop that died and iTune playlists were not transferred. I now have a MacBook Air with iTunes with a new and different playlist. I want to get my iPod playlists on another device without losing anything. And keep the tunes on my MacBook. These tunes are not from the iTunes store. I'm wondering if iTunes Match can help and how I'd use it to keep both playlists. Thanks.

Hi,
Itunes match works by scanning your iTunes library on your computer. Any music on your ipod that is not on your computer will need to be transferred.
However, when you sync your ipod with your computer, you wll only get the music and playlists from your computer..
JIm

ITunes Match with different apple IDs

If I purchase itunes match, will my wife and I both have access to the collection, even though she has a different apple ID than I do? I have an iPhone 4 and she recently purchased an iPhone 5.

No, she must sing into the iTunes Store with the same Apple ID that was used to purchase the service.

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