Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music Library Matching Limits to 100,000 Tracks

[MacRumors]

Over the past couple of days, MacRumors has received several reports from users who have been able to upload music libraries of greater than 25,000 tracks to iTunes Match or Apple Music's similar scan-and-match feature, and Macworld's iTunes expert Kirk McElhearn has also noted a number of reports on his personal blog.

Just ahead of the launch of Apple Music in late June, Eddy Cue revealed on Twitter that Apple was working to raise the matching limit from 25,000 tracks to 100,000 for iOS 9, but the increase did not occur in September when iOS 9 debuted.

MacRumors checked with Cue back in October for an update, and he indicated Apple was "definitely working on it" with the expectation the increase would go live "before the end of the year."

Apple has yet to update its support page on uploading music Apple Music to document the new limit.

Update 12:08 PM, December 6: Eddy Cue has confirmed to MacRumors that Apple has indeed "started rolling out support for 100k libraries."

Article Link: Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music Library Matching Limits to 100,000 Tracks

 

[farewelwilliams]

Cue: "Hey did you increase the limit yet?"
Engineer: "No."
Cue: "Can you do it right now? People have been waiting for this update."
Engineer: (groans) "Fine." (changes variable from 25000 to 100000)
Engineer: "Done."

 

[thekeyring]

When the notification appeared on my desktop, I saw "Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music" and thought the prices were going up!

 

[scottish]

The push notification said "Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music...." I thought it was going to say price!

 

[Aluminum213]

iTunes Match has been a broken mess since the minute the service launched

 

[bushido]

id still like to get the music back i uploaded myself but got replaced by AM crap

 

[brsedu]

Blah. The increase to 100K won't help me at all. Talk to me when the upper limit is 500K

 

[Twimfy]

I'm still confused at to whether I need both or not? Will Apple Music + my storage space subscription to the same thing as iTunes Match?

 

[tgwaste]

iTunes Match has been a broken mess since the minute the service launched

Exactly right also no audio books = useless.

I'm convinced that Apple will simply never get syncing right.

Dropbox should make a phone.

 

[jmh600cbr]

How about increased iCloud storage space

 

[thekeyring]

I'm still confused at to whether I need both or not? Will Apple Music + my storage space subscription to the same thing as iTunes Match?

The difference is tracks matched via Apple Music are DRM-locked. iTunes Match doesn't add DRM. So really, it's up to you.

If I were you, I'd back up my music library locally, then just pay for Apple Music. If you ever want your original library, and you're going to stop paying for Apple Music, you DRM-free songs will still be there.

 

[doasis23]

Match is useless since it doesn't actual match everything. Most of my live music plays the album versions.

 

[Yumbo]

Do both, use discounted iTunes cards to pay for both.

It doesn't use iCloud storage.

 

[sampaul]

How about increased iCloud storage space

I totally agree with you. Instead of using up the Apple servers with increased iTunes Match matching limits, they should instead increase the free iCloud storage limit from 5 GB to something around 15-20 GB. Maybe I am being unrealistic, but hey its better than the increased matching limits.

 

[stephen1108]

iTunes Match has been a broken mess since the minute the service launched

What's really pissing me off is I'm no longer an Apple Music subscriber, yet when I try to match music since the launch of Apple Music, nothing matches, it just uploads music and when it does "match" I get an Apple Music file.

iTunes Match is totally useless for me now

 

[melliflu]

This decision is not green and not sustainable. I have 255 tracks and I think it's plenty.
Who really needs 100K tracks except for showing off or compulsive hoarding ?

 

[sw1tcher]

I totally agree with you. Instead of using up the Apple servers with increased iTunes Match matching limits, they should instead increase the free iCloud storage limit from 5 GB to something around 15-20 GB. Maybe I am being unrealistic, but hey its better than the increased matching limits.

$0.033 per day ($0.99 per month) for 50 GB too expensive?

 

[jrlcopy]

Adorable, well when they fix the itunes Match syncing bugs maybe I'll give it another shot, but it's super annoying to download things over itunes match, and then as soon as your phone sync with itunes all that music gets ripped right off of your iphone again and you have to redownload it.

 

[tgwaste]

$0.033 per day ($0.99 per month) for 50 GB too expensive?

After an $1100 phone. Yes

 

[Peepo]

If one is an AM subscriber then I don't understand what he purpose in matching is since one can stream everything! I can see if you have albums and songs not in AM but otherwise I don't understand the point. On the other hand I do understand for iTunes Match subscribers who do not have AM.

 

[WardC]

The only REAL feature I want out of iTunes and the music store is to offer truly uncompressed AIFF audio files of all tracks in their database. I don't care if Apple charges more or makes it a premium service. I can easily tell the audio quality difference in Apple's 256k AAC and a True 1411K AIFF file, the difference is tremendous if you use good speakers or headphones. Can't really tell squat difference if you are using iPod earbuds.

Beatport offers this service, but they don't carry the full spectrum of music that Apple carries. As of now, the only way to get this quality on some music is to buy the CDs and rip them, after all , whatI am talking about is the raw full quality 44.1k 16-bit AIFF file which contains 100% of the audio data. Apple's current 256k AAC is so compressed it only contains about one-eighth of the full audio data of the track.

It's almost 2016 and Apple should be doing this by now. The nation's carriers have the bandwidth and Apple has the server space...I just wonder why Apple won't carry a premium uncompressed file service. I am hoping they do make this an upcoming feature because I know I'm not the only one who wants full-quality uncompressed audio at the iTunes Music Store!!

 

[Sirious]

Match is useless since it doesn't actual match everything. Most of my live music plays the album versions.

Exactly.
I had to rename the live version to something a bit different to stop it from doing that.

 

[citysnaps]

$0.033 per day ($0.99 per month) for 50 GB too expensive?

Nice. $11.88 per year is a steal, especially considering the integration. Will be setting that up - thanx for the reminder.

 

[Norbs12]

The push notification said "Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music...." I thought it was going to say price!

After reading that AT&T raised prices on the grandfathered unlimited, that exactly what I saw on this headline too.

 

[sw1tcher]

If one is an AM subscriber then I don't understand what he purpose in matching is since one can stream everything! I can see if you have albums and songs not in AM but otherwise I don't understand the point.

You just answered your own question and you still don't understand the point?