iTunes Match's glitch with uploading large songs?

[alexjholland]

Hey, I purchased iTunes Match back in early December and left it to do its thing with my 130Gb of music.

I had about 5,000 songs which needed uploading; it got down to around 1600 within a few days, then stopped on several hour-long mixes I have by a DJ (I'll have a few more elsewhere too).

Research has revealed iTunes Match simply doesn't seem able to upload these large (one hour-ish) files. Not that it takes a while, but it literally stops on them.

Others have 'helpfully' suggested I just delete these files; but I didn't buy a £2,000 iMac and pay for an iTunes Match subscription for the joy of not being allowed to have any long mixes in my iTunes collection.

Is there any other way around this; perhaps selecting these mixes not to be uploaded to iTunes Match whilst the rest is? I can tolerate only having these in my local collection if needs be.

Cheers

[limbic]

I have exactly the same problem.

It just started yesterday.

I downloaded two 160MB DJ mixes from Mixcloud and iTunes Match has choked on them.

Is there a way to ask iTunes Match to simply ignore the file/song?

[Gav2k]

Easiest way is to change them so that iTunes sees them as podcasts. There then excluded from the upload.

[MasterHowl]

You've probably already tried it, but have you tried turning Match on and then off again?

I had this problem when uploading some ~45 minute songs, and it did it fine after I switched it on and off again.

Hope you find a solution! Very frustrating

[limbic]

I right clicked on the song and selected "Create AAC version". Then I deleted the other version and that seems to have done the trick.

Not sure is this is bunk though as I was generally fiddling around.

[alexjholland]

Limbic, I was about to post to say the same thing.

I created AAC versions of the mixes in question and deleted the originals; and it's been merrily uploading since. Only up to 100/1500+ in several hours, but it IS moving!

I'll do the same thing if/when I encounter any other problematic files; and hopefully look forward to having Match working - 6-8 weeks after purchasing it!