Apple Once Again Deleting Developers' iTunes Match Libraries on November 12th

Soon!

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Hopefully by next week

Release soon.

What the hell!!!

Delete away apple.

I am all with testing rigorously before deployment. It is a habit of mine when I embark on my IT projects or pretty much anything that consist of affecting x amount of users. The less bugs/error the more success.

Well although delayed, I can say the quality of Match has improved significantly over the beta. I have 'laundered' nearly my entire library with 256 iTunes quality.
The metadata handling isn't pretty (album art, lyrics) but it is pretty much otherwise all I had hoped for.

I wish they would add a metadata clean up feature (so that it matches iTunes Store metadata) to iTunes Match. Currently, it just keeps your metadata.

frankjl said:

Delete away apple.

I am all with testing rigorously before deployment. It is a habit of mine when I embark on my IT projects or pretty much anything that consist of affecting x amount of users. The less bugs/error the more success.

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+1.

As a regular consumer (and not a developer), I'd much rather Apple get iTunes Match working nicely, rather than releasing something that's half-assed and chock full of bugs just so they can meet their original "end of October" deadline.

jaw04005 said:

I wish they would add a metadata clean up feature (so that it matches iTunes Store metadata) to iTunes Match. Currently, it just keeps your metadata.

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Yeah I agree. But then again I am not sure there is a perfect way to manage this. There is awful lot of songs that also appear on 'best of' or compilation albums, or artists 'featuring' other artists. In those cases I don't really like iTunes default information.

Looking forward to its final release. Got my library working and pretty happy with how it works. It was bumpy getting everything put into the cloud and hoping they improve the matching even more in the final release.

I was hoping to upgrade some lower quality tracks but since I had an issue, all of my tracks say waiting even though they are in the cloud. Other than that, works pretty well.

Looking forward to one final upload of everything and calling it good finally...lol

Thank God

Hopefully they can fix some issues so I don't run into issues syncing my music.
It stil downloaded like 1000 songs that I knew were in the iTunes store last time I synced

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Hopefully the delayed launch is because they're making it available internationally (NZ??!)

jaw04005 said:

I wish they would add a metadata clean up feature (so that it matches iTunes Store metadata) to iTunes Match. Currently, it just keeps your metadata.

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What metadata do iTunes song have (haven't bought anything from them yet)? Do all songs come with album covers and lyrics?

I know this will upgrade legit tunes I’ve ripped or purchased from other services. Will iTunes match also include purchases made by my family via their iTunes accounts? My Computer/iPhone are authorized to play the songs, but iTunes in the cloud currently, and understandably don’t include those available to re-download.

jaw04005 said:

I wish they would add a metadata clean up feature (so that it matches iTunes Store metadata) to iTunes Match. Currently, it just keeps your metadata.

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If they ever did that then it would have to be optional in order to avoid messing up the libraries of all of us who spend hours sorting out our metadata the way we want it.

Anticipating this greatly. I encoded my entire cd collection ten years ago, and used the discs for a big reflective art project. Having moved this library between drives & computers probably a hundred + times, some of these files are a bit glitchy, and it'd be great to get them upgraded. ...fingers crossed that I can listen to Atom Heart Mother without having to buy it yet again.

So maybe after buying the LP (wears out), another LP, Cassette, CD, Remastered CD, Anniv CD, Deluxe Boxed Set CD... hopefully with iTunes Match, I'll finally just permanently own a copy of the recording I can listen to.


...or is it actually uploading local copies of these files? Seems like it'd be a waste of space for their server farm to store three million mp3's of the Beatles White Album, including a half a million with incorrect metadata or glitches, when they could just have one and permission everyone who has a local copy to it.

Really looking forward to this

It looks like Apple is taking steps to get this right.
I'll readily accept a launch delay so that when it goes live for millions it still works as it did when it was being tested by thousands.

KeithJenner said:

If they ever did that then it would have to be optional in order to avoid messing up the libraries of all of us who spend hours sorting out our metadata the way we want it.

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Agreed. I seem to have an obsessive compulsive disorder when it comes to my metadata. I spend hours tweaking it to my liking. I don't like the way iTunes tracks come for the most part.

At least deleting works without a hitch.

ThunderSkunk said:

Anticipating this greatly. I encoded my entire cd collection ten years ago, and used the discs for a big reflective art project. Having moved this library between drives & computers probably a hundred + times, some of these files are a bit glitchy, and it'd be great to get them upgraded. ...fingers crossed that I can listen to Atom Heart Mother without having to buy it yet again.

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Hope you did ALAC or FLAC.

It must be really hard working with 20 million different songs. I bet creating rules is a nightmare. There's so many different versions of the songs. Sometimes user might not even have the right name of the song or the album or the artist. I wonder if Apple has a way to "Shazam" some songs that it can't find through user's metadata.

dashiel said:

Hope you did ALAC or FLAC.

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256kbps mp3. The classical stuff and any really great albums I kept or repurchased and re-ripped ALAC though, after I discovered mp3 loses half of what's going on in Rachmaninov's thunderous concertos.

iTunes Match is the White iPhone 4 of the year!

I want them to get it right at launch, but come on!

jaw04005 said:

I wish they would add a metadata clean up feature (so that it matches iTunes Store metadata) to iTunes Match. Currently, it just keeps your metadata.

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Sorry this is the one feature that was a deal breaker for me. If they matched all my songs to the iTunes store metadata that would be AWFUL. I am ridiculously anal about metadata and 7/10 iTunes doesn't even get it right...wrong genre, wrong year of release date (remastered doesn't change it from a 1977 album to 2010...sorry.) So I am very happy they are keeping local metadata...