I tried it on my iPod (Settings, Music, Turn iTunes Match On) and every song in my library started to fade, and then the Cloud icon appeared, allowing me to download the songs I wanted.. Then I turned off iTunes Match and I had 0 playlists, and only a few songs left on my iPod. I had to sync with iTunes to get all of my songs back.
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A Clear Explanation of iTunes Match
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I tried it on my iPod (Settings, Music, Turn iTunes Match On) and every song in my library started to fade, and then the Cloud icon appeared, allowing me to download the songs I wanted.. Then I turned off iTunes Match and I had 0 playlists, and only a few songs left on my iPod. I had to sync with iTunes to get all of my songs back.
Im pretty sure that the bitrate is above 128, but I'll give it a try anyways, thanks for your help
Stream or Download
All I want to know is if I can stream the music to my 4S without downloading it. I got the small 16Gig phone because I thought I wouldn't have to store any of my music in the device. If they make you download the songs you stream, it kinda defeats the purpose of storing music on the cloud.
All I want to know is if I can stream the music to my 4S without downloading it. I got the small 16Gig phone because I thought I wouldn't have to store any of my music in the device. If they make you download the songs you stream, it kinda defeats the purpose of storing music on the cloud.
Tanya Donelly!
A large part of my uploads to the cloud will be random Tanya Donelly / Belly / Throwing Muses live tracks and b-sides. Amazing! haha So excited to have things backed up in a floaty secure place.
Between this, and my iPod, and my Time Machine, and my extra hard drive that just has my music, I can finally get rid of the cd-r's i've been lugging around forever.
A large part of my uploads to the cloud will be random Tanya Donelly / Belly / Throwing Muses live tracks and b-sides. Amazing! haha So excited to have things backed up in a floaty secure place.
Between this, and my iPod, and my Time Machine, and my extra hard drive that just has my music, I can finally get rid of the cd-r's i've been lugging around forever.
Right click the cloud-with-!-symbol in the iCloud column, and click "add to iCloud in the menu". This will place it back in the queue for iCloud with status "Waiting.
All I want to know is if I can stream the music to my 4S without downloading it. I got the small 16Gig phone because I thought I wouldn't have to store any of my music in the device. If they make you download the songs you stream, it kinda defeats the purpose of storing music on the cloud.
I don't think so, at least that's not how it worked on my iPod.. Once I tapped on the Cloud icon next to the songs I wanted to listen, the songs began to download. So no, it doesn't really 'stream'... They do allow you to listen to the song you want while its downloading, but it will be stored once it finishes. You can erase the song after by swiping to the right.
I feel like iTunes goes against everything Apple stands for. I'm sure it wasn't the intention of Apple to have it that way, but it's true. Apple is all about simplicity and intuition. iTunes is the opposite of either of those. Over the years it's become a complex, WAY too feature-heavy application. Let me clarify that I don't mean that iTunes is slow or "bloated", just way, way too complex. If it was designed right in the first place, we shouldn't need a "clear explanation" on how it works. Apple's thought process is to make things simpler to use. Less is more and whatnot. Instead, all that happens with iTunes is more crap is tacked on, adding even more garbage to the already overpopulated and unorganized side bar.
Wow, quite a few snooty folks on here who have apparently never downloaded a free song. I say snooty because you are acting that way. And I assume you have never downloaded a song illegally because you are talking down to those who have.
A few people asked what will happen with songs they got via torrent or otherwise and you people look down your noses at them?? Take it easy big shots. There was a time when people used Napster freely and it wasn't looked at as being "illegal."
Basically, try to understand that even though you drive exactly the speed limit and have never downloaded a song from one of the various places, that doesn't mean that everyone else has been as perfect as you.
A few people asked what will happen with songs they got via torrent or otherwise and you people look down your noses at them?? Take it easy big shots. There was a time when people used Napster freely and it wasn't looked at as being "illegal."
Basically, try to understand that even though you drive exactly the speed limit and have never downloaded a song from one of the various places, that doesn't mean that everyone else has been as perfect as you.
Press Command + J on iTunes and select 'iCloud Status'.. I don't think there's a way to do it from your iOS device.. Only on iTunes.
Im pretty sure that the bitrate is above 128, but I'll give it a try anyways, thanks for your help
I have songs with very low bit rate - much less than 128K - that it simply uploaded.
On the other hand the music I have that "not eligible" is listed as "Protected AAC audio file".
So how do I unprotect it?
By burning the protected songs onto a CD and by ripping them?
Or try this..
http://www.iskysoft.com/article/remove-drm-protection-from-itunes.html
It keeps your album artwork. I played with it a little and it got new artwork if I deleted the existing artwork and told it to get it again.
It appears that the threshold for songs is 96k. However, there is a work around for this. Simply create a higher bit rate version in iTunes (of course it won't sound any better because you aren't adding back any information ) but it will make it available for matching. If if matches, replace it with the 256k version.
Okay, I searched just this question and this is what I found: https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/29/itunes-match-allows-both-streaming-and-downloading-of-music/
I don't think this answers the question though as it was an article about the beta version, so if anyone has any better answers please let me know so I don't pay $25 and get disappointed
I just found this, and clipped it from a Huffington Post article: "Apple pointed out that this is not streaming, exactly, as each song downloads to your device when you push play. So while the playback is instantaneous, you are not streaming your music from the cloud, per se, but you are listening as the song places itself on your hard drive."
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Another tip for managing your cloud music is this: If you have access to another computer, or VM install iTunes on it, enable match without any local songs. You can then see a clear version of your cloud library. This makes it very easy to delete duplicates, etc. If you don't have another machine you could even create another login and do it that way. Just make sure that you unauthorize it before you blow it away.
There is no DRM in the downloaded tracks, so once they are downloaded to your Mac, they are yours to keep forever.
Library Reload
So, what happens is it deletes your "Library" file on your device, not the actual songs. That is so you can have access to all of your playlists on the device instead of just the ones you synched. When your iCloud library is downloaded (the one the matches the playlists on your PC) you do not have to redownload songs that were already on the device.
I had a lot of worries about this prior to it going live. Most of it is misinformation. Basically I now have access to all of my songs and playlists on all of my devices including metadata. I'm happy and I did not expect to be.
Okay, I searched just this question and this is what I found: https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/29/itunes-match-allows-both-streaming-and-downloading-of-music/
I don't think this answers the question though as it was an article about the beta version, so if anyone has any better answers please let me know so I don't pay $25 and get disappointed
So, what happens is it deletes your "Library" file on your device, not the actual songs. That is so you can have access to all of your playlists on the device instead of just the ones you synched. When your iCloud library is downloaded (the one the matches the playlists on your PC) you do not have to redownload songs that were already on the device.
I had a lot of worries about this prior to it going live. Most of it is misinformation. Basically I now have access to all of my songs and playlists on all of my devices including metadata. I'm happy and I did not expect to be.