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Apple Activates iTunes Match Setting in iOS 5, Suggesting Imminent Launch

mms13 said:
First of all, it only matched about 600 of my 2500 songs. Some of those matches we're to the wrong version of a song. I was excited for all my music to get upgraded to a higher quality, but it barely matched any tracks that I hadn't already bought on iTunes.

Third, there's no more controlling what and what does not get synced to your iPhone. I have lots of music sitting on my computer that I don't want on my iPhone. With iTunes match you're forced to see every song on your phone.

Long story short after seeing what it was like I immediately turned it off. I prefer having control over my library, iTunes Match basically turns it all over to Apple.
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The matching has gotten a lot better - when I did it two weeks ago, it recognized maybe 3000/4000 songs - and I understand it's even better now.

Just use playlists - I have a smart playlist for my favorite songs that I used to sync to my iPhone but now I just leave it in the cloud.
 
ECUpirate44 said:
Still hoping for a way to "test my library" first before signing up. Why pay if only 1/3 of my music can be matched?
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It matched only 1-2% of my music (to be fair: its from all over the world, most not in the US iTunes Store, but even for the ones available, it is a low percentage matched) ....

The good new is: you don't have to care if it is matched or not - if it doesn't match it is getting uploaded and it is transparent for all your devices if it is matched or uploaded, it just doesn't make a difference (at least not until you hit the 230000 upload song limit, which I am unfortunately pretty close to). So you win either way uploaded or matched.
 
So you cant put songs on your iphone that actually stay on there always (and dont require an internet connection to use - like we do now) AND use itunes match to retrieve anything you might want later from the cloud?

(I guess you could turn on itunes match and download all of those songs, but it seems unnecessary)
 
Diode said:
Your playlist created in iTunes show up on any iTunes match device.

I just wish they did some sort of hybrid - would be nice to be able to sync some music (IE a playlist) and have the cloud there to download stuff if I'm in the mood to listen to it.
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this is how i expected it to work...i still don't understand the current logic. i have a 64gb 4s and using match makes me go from 2gb free space to 42gb...what in the hell do i need all that space for? just keep the music i want there and give me the option to pull down a few songs as needed...otherwise i'm either not using match at all or downloading 41gb of new music from your servers over wifi and 3g every time i restore. ridiculous.
 
MJA3488 said:
So you cant put songs on your iphone that actually stay on there always (and dont require an internet connection to use - like we do now) AND use itunes match to retrieve anything you might want later from the cloud?

(I guess you could turn on itunes match and download all of those songs, but it seems unnecessary)
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I don't know first-hand, but I think this is incorrect. I believe you can sync what you want via itunes, and what you don't sync, you will have to download/cache stream from the cloud.
 
MJA3488 said:
So you cant put songs on your iphone that actually stay on there always (and dont require an internet connection to use - like we do now) AND use itunes match to retrieve anything you might want later from the cloud?

(I guess you could turn on itunes match and download all of those songs, but it seems unnecessary)
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Sort of but not really - the songs you download while listening stay on the phone until space is needed and can be accessed again without a connection.

But, there is no way that I can see to sync songs through iTunes and access the rest through Match - it's either or. Turning on Match wipes every song from your iPhone and you start with a clean slate.
 
benlee said:
I don't know first-hand, but I think this is incorrect. I believe you can sync what you want via itunes, and what you don't sync, you will have to download/cache stream from the cloud.
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I would hope that's the case, but it doesn't sound like that from the first couple pages of posts...
 
benlee said:
I don't know first-hand, but I think this is incorrect. I believe you can sync what you want via itunes, and what you don't sync, you will have to download/cache stream from the cloud.
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That is the same impression I was under as well.
 
Eduardo1971 said:
As someone who is always manually correcting the meta-information on the tracks as I'm importing them from CD's; I wonder how this will work (or not) once the matching services goes live?
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So far I haven't been able to figure out how it matches. It will match some songs on a CD, but not all of them, they are all tagged the same...
 
benlee said:
I don't know first-hand, but I think this is incorrect. I believe you can sync what you want via itunes, and what you don't sync, you will have to download/cache stream from the cloud.
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No, its one or the other. If you turn on iTunes Match, every song will be deleted from your iDevice.
 
This seems like a great deal if you're big into music.

$24.99 = less than 7¢ a day to have access to your entire music library.
 
Diode said:
Not really - the songs you download while listening stay on the phone until space is needed and can be accessed again without a connection.

There is no way that I can see to sync songs through iTunes and access the rest through Match - it's either or. Turning on Match wipes every song from your iPhone and you start with a clean slate.
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Right, not a huge fan of that. Seems counter productive.

I guess you could go and download every song you want on your phone from the cloud right away, but that seems like a long waste of time (and bandwidth).
 
benlee said:
I don't know first-hand, but I think this is incorrect. I believe you can sync what you want via itunes, and what you don't sync, you will have to download/cache stream from the cloud.
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iTunes no longer sync songs once I turned on iTunes Match.
 
Mattsasa said:
Wait a second,

how did apple remotely add this?
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The fact that there's a slight delay before it appears on the panel indicates (to me) that it's polling a remote server to see if the control should appear. It was almost certainly lying dormant in the code all along, just polling (and getting a "No" back) until now.
 
does anyone know details on the bit rate and file type you are going to get in the cloud. Most of the songs on standard MP3 320 bit rate. So AAC of 192 or 225 would be pretty good (being that AAC is double the compression rate of mp3 file).
 
benlee said:
I don't know first-hand, but I think this is incorrect. I believe you can sync what you want via itunes, and what you don't sync, you will have to download/cache stream from the cloud.
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This is not the case now - it's either Match or iTunes. Turning on Match wipes all music off of your iDevice and disables music syncing in iTunes.
 
spazzcat said:
So far I haven't been able to figure out how it matches. It will match some songs on a CD, but not all of them, they are all tagged the same...
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If I had to guess (and I do, since I don't know) I would say it's probably using a "digital fingerprinting" approach similar to what YouTube and Facebook use to detect copyrighted content. One might think of it as a mathematical way to look at the overall structure of a track rather than trying to match the metadata or the individual bytes. But I suppose time will tell.
 
How do i delete bad songs that were accidentally uploaded to my iTunes Cloud
 
chrisfromalbany said:
does anyone know details on the bit rate and file type you are going to get in the cloud. Most of the songs on standard MP3 320 bit rate. So AAC of 192 or 225 would be pretty good (being that AAC is double the compression rate of mp3 file).
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I believe it has been clearly stated in multiple places, including by Steve Jobs in the keynote where iTunes Match was announced, that the files will all be AAC 256.
 
Diode said:
This is not the case now - it's either Match or iTunes. Turning on Match wipes all music off of your iDevice and disables music syncing in iTunes.
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This seems crazy to me. But I guess that is correct considering when you slide Match on, it gives you the option to show all music or only music downloaded to the device.

Like others have said, I guess you could always take a moment to download what you want stored on the device after turning iTunes Match on.
 
"coming soon" appeared in French iTunes as well... Linking to a page in english... Then it disappeared. And nothing shows up in Settings/music on my French iPhone. That doesn't look that imminent to us people of the Hexagon...
 
DesertDrummer said:
It's not an OS update, and nothing was sent. It was lying dormant in the code all along, and it just checks a server to see if it should appear.
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True, that's the most likely explanation.
But it makes me a little nervous.
What other dormant feature might they activate without my consent?

Where's the smiley face wearing a tin foil hat?
 
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