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Apple Wiping iTunes Match Libraries Again on Thursday, October 27th

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Apple has sent an email out to developers informing them that iTunes Match music libraries in iCloud will once again be wiped on Thursday, October 27th. Apple instructs developers to turn off iTunes Match on their computers and iOS devices during that time.

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The wipe may be in preparation for the public launch of iTunes Match. The service was originally to be launched alongside iOS 5 but was pushed to the "end of October". iTunes Match remains in beta testing with developers, and there's been evidence that Apple has been quietly preparing for its public launch.

Last week, an iTunes Match toggle has appeared in the iOS 5 Music Settings pane, which directs users to subscribe to the service using iTunes. Apple has not yet publicly released an updated version of iTunes that allows users to sign up for this feature.

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iTunes Match is a $25/year subscription service that will match your existing iTunes library with 256-Kbps versions in the iCloud. These songs will become available for download on your other Macs or iOS devices through iCloud.
Here's how it works: iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to your iCloud library. Since there are more than 20 million songs in the iTunes Store, most of your music is probably already in iCloud. All you have to upload is what iTunes can't match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. Once your music is in iCloud, you can stream and store it on any of your devices. Even better, all the music iTunes matches plays back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality -- even if your original copy was of lower quality
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Coming closer. Hoping for a launch in Europe soon!
 
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Does the iTunes Match sub fee come straight out of your payment method like app gifting does? Or does it come out of your credit...which would be awesome :D
 
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l.w41sh said:
Just to confirm. It is iCloud backups not just iTunes Match on iCloud?
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This is only iTunes Match, if it was iCloud backups as well then everyone who uses iCloud would have gotten an email.

notromeel said:
So iTunes Match, I pay $25 to have all my music accessible via a download to my mobile device or STREAM? Please help! :confused:
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On iOS devices it downloads the song to your device (it plays as it downloads).
On desktop iTunes it will stream or you can have it download.

sammich said:
Does the iTunes Match sub fee come straight out of your payment method like app gifting does? Or does it come out of your credit...which would be awesome :D
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I paid for it using my $100 iTunes gift card I got from the back to school promo.
 
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For some reason, there were a couple of CDs in which only half of the songs were uploaded. All of the songs showed up but some were grayed out and I couldn't play them. I tried to update it several times but nothing changed. There were also a few CDs in which the album art wouldn't display. I hate that I have to do the upload again. :rolleyes:
 
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This is an awesome feature but what happens if iCloud is down? It's happened with MobileMe. I'd be worried about lossing all my music.

Any one share my concern?
 
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How do they validate the song??? Suppose a person could create an MP3 (or any other file type) that has the exact same duration and simply add your tags then it would be available on Match??? Just wondering if they have implemented anything to prevent that from happening...
 
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CubusX said:
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This is an awesome feature but what happens if iCloud is down? It's happened with MobileMe. I'd be worried about lossing all my music.

Any one share my concern?
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When, in recent memory, has the iTunes store ever been down? Did Apple lose all the music in the iTunes store?

That should answer your question, you are safe.
 
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Educ8r said:
For some reason, there were a couple of CDs in which only half of the songs were uploaded. All of the songs showed up but some were grayed out and I couldn't play them. I tried to update it several times but nothing changed. There were also a few CDs in which the album art wouldn't display. I hate that I have to do the upload again. :rolleyes:
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Welcome to learning what Beta means!

That being said, I'm wondering if iTunes will take the tracks metadata or the filename as its information. I have lots of metadata that I screwed up with that stupid Tuneup - split complete albums apart, wrong artwork. Yuck. Yeah, it's my fault. But I wonder if iTunes can fix it.
 
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CubusX said:
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This is an awesome feature but what happens if iCloud is down? It's happened with MobileMe. I'd be worried about lossing all my music.

Any one share my concern?
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No. With the newly built, HUGE, datacenter and all the money that went into it we should assume they are taking this seriously.
 
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These songs will become available for download on your other Macs or iOS devices through iCloud.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa - wait a minute! This makes it sound like only desktop iTunes users with Macs, not Windows PCs, will be able to use iTunes Match.

Did Apple ever say this anywhere? Is there any authoritative source of information that has explicitly ruled out iTunes for Windows users?
 
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BornAgainMac said:
I spent a small fortune upgrading everything in my iTunes library to iTunes Plus. I wish I would have known before this was announced almost 6 months ago.
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+1 and every other person that paid for the upgrades
 
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Here's my question: let's say I have 4 gigs of music on my phone of a 32 gig library. Can I make a genius playlist that pulls from all 32 gigs and pull down songs as needed, or will it only use the 4 gigs on my phone?
 
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seamer said:
Welcome to learning what Beta means!

That being said, I'm wondering if iTunes will take the tracks metadata or the filename as its information. I have lots of metadata that I screwed up with that stupid Tuneup - split complete albums apart, wrong artwork. Yuck. Yeah, it's my fault. But I wonder if iTunes can fix it.
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When you download songs using itunes match, your metadata will stay the same as what you have in your library. at least thats how it has been throughout the beta.
 
Educ8r

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you can play your ENTIRE library...well up to 25K songs

Thanatoast said:
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Here's my question: let's say I have 4 gigs of music on my phone of a 32 gig library. Can I make a genius playlist that pulls from all 32 gigs and pull down songs as needed, or will it only use the 4 gigs on my phone?
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Dcuellar said:
No. With the newly built, HUGE, datacenter and all the money that went into it we should assume they are taking this seriously.
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All that means is that they have capacity. That doesn't mean they know how to use it. However, this reminds me of something my grandfather told me before he died: With great capacity comes great responsability.

/Goes off to be Spiderman :eek:
 
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Thanatoast said:
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Here's my question: let's say I have 4 gigs of music on my phone of a 32 gig library. Can I make a genius playlist that pulls from all 32 gigs and pull down songs as needed, or will it only use the 4 gigs on my phone?
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It will be as if it is already on your device.

This is essentially a stream and cache service. People need to stop worrying about whether or not songs are downloaded or streamed. The reason why they chose to download (cache) is because it saves us on bandwidth and allows us to access music much quicker (from tapping song to hearing audio.)

You will see your entire library listed in your iPod. Click on what you want to listen to. If you are running out of space on your device then just clear some cache.
 
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