Yeah I noticed the swapping of explicit versions for clean while in the gym yesterday. It seems totally randomized as to when or why it decides to do it and for which songs. Pretty annoying.
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Apple Aiming to Increase Music Library Matching Limit to 100,000 Tracks 'Before the End of the Year'
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@NavySEAL6 - Short Answer - No you can not cancel without any repercussions.
Long Answer - If you have songs that are "Matched" but you still have your version locally, and you cancel Match, you will not be able to download the DRM Free AAC, you will get a DRM Apple Music AAC. Additionally, if you have Match and Music today, and say, as in my case, my iMac has all my local copies. If I open my MacBook Pro, I don't store any music on it, relying on iTunes Match/Apple Music. If I cancel Match, and then go to download a song locally on the MacBook Pro, I will get a DRM protected file. If I stop paying for Apple Music, I won't be able to play that song. Alternatively, if I still have iTunes Match, download the file, I will get a non DRM file, and if I cancel iTunes Match, I will still have access to that song.
Those of us in the past who had iTunes Match and turned it off where still negatively impacted when we turned AM on.
Yes - thank god for off line backups.
I still have Match. Considered cancelling, but for the $25/year, it's a good insurance policy. Sadly, yes, the initial launch of Music FUBARed a lot of users libraries. Seems to be resolved now, but not sure what they did to correct the issue for those affected.
Or those that have a massive cd collection from the mailer days and take advantage of discounts, etc....
I have definitely greater than 25k. Then again, it has been acquired over a 30+ year span.
Tower records .....
Precisely. I've been buying music for decades. With the advent of CDs I sort of went insane. We used to go shopping every Tuesday for new releases, hitting a bunch of record shoppes in town, digging through the stax, looking for old vinyl, new CDs, and 12" remixes.
I've digitized that whole collection multiple times now, first in the original SoundJam days, and later when lossless formats became available and storage capacity was no longer an issue.
I'm sure they are many users who have more than 25K tracks.
This better happen before 10/30 or I'm back to Google Play All Access!!!! Hear that Apple, get your butts in gear!
Same here once I found out that CD's can corrode. Mirrored 2TB HDD's plus a cloud.
Added the second HDD after the AM fiasco.
After having it kill my library twice and still no realistic answer from Apple on how it handles Japanese purchased jpop, EU purchased German Metal and live albums on my American library in AM ....
I am very hesitant to even consider trying it again.
For now it's Google and Amazon for my cloud music stuff.
I hear you. I mirrored everything to Amazon Prime Music as my cloud backup. It's slightly clunky but it works for what it is.
I have a few old HDD I use locally to back up my library, too. I don't do much curation anymore. But there was a time when I would spend hours and hours fixing genres, capitalization, track listings, etc. I'm afraid to lose all of that information, particularly because I really hate the default genres. They make almost no sense to me.
Oh, absolutely not. And some of it I may never hear (although most of it I think I probably will). As I've said to some folks, it is something of a benign illness I have — hoarding, or wanting things to be complete, or something. Oh, and don't even get me started on the tagging — if I could gather up all the time I've spent fixing track tags to my specifications, including all the right diacritical markings, I probably could have done something truly amazing in life.
I'll often start with wanting to have everything written by a certain composer. Not because I'm going to sit and listen to it all back-to-back, but because I want to have it available when I want to dabble here and there. Then, depending on how much it resonates with me, I start wanting to have duplication of works, but by different orchestras, different conductors, different soloists, etc. So, for instance, if I pull up "Mahler, Gustav" in my library.... well let's just say there's GBs of data there (not lossless, either!) just because of all the duplication. When the mood strikes me to hear something, and to really study it, I often want to do a comparative listen of it recorded by different people.
I've often thought that as more and more things like Apple Music come around, maybe I don't need to have my own copies of everything. But streaming services, thus far, just haven't come anywhere near to scratching the surface of the classical musical canon. Because it's so incomplete, I feel like I need to curate my own a library. The other stuff, more popular music that is widely present on those services... I'm just now getting to a tipping point where I no longer feel it necessary to have "my" copy of it.
I make a good living...but I live a pretty modest life, partially because a lot of my resources goes to music (whether it's buying it, or going to hear it live, supporting it with donations, etc.). And I'm pretty okay with that, as long as I don't dwell on the numbers too awful much. It's just a really important part of my life. It's like the equivalent of my hobby, my sport, my religion, my kids, my vacation (sometimes), all that rolled up into one thing.
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I wish they would just fix being able to use Homesharing with large libraries. I thought they were going to revamp Homesharing with iOS9 but it still freezes halfway when connecting, making it essentially useless. It hasn't worked since iOS5. I make due with an old app called "Audiotap" that isn't even supported anymore. Yet this "old" app can connect to my large library (35K+ Apple Lossless songs) in an instant.
I've never hit a limit in Rhapsody, and I have a ton of albums in my library.
I guess I'm confused as to what Match actually does. I've uploaded my entire iTunes music library (including my own rips) to Google Music and I can access them anywhere with a 50k song limit. What am I missing?
The best feature about Match, especially for us old guys who have had our music libraries for years.
If you originally ripped a CD of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits at 128k with 2008 MP3 tech.
I can select that album, if matched, and download the same mastered version they sell on itunes, DRM free.
Now I have a 2015 256k AAC version.
Google just uploads all your music to the cloud.
For free, it is very nice but it will blindly stream your 128k version back to you.
They may do some matching but I am not sure and if they do, they don't let you download the 320k MP3 version.
If you originally ripped a CD of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits at 128k with 2008 MP3 tech.
I can select that album, if matched, and download the same mastered version they sell on itunes, DRM free.
Now I have a 2015 256k AAC version.
Google just uploads all your music to the cloud.
For free, it is very nice but it will blindly stream your 128k version back to you.
They may do some matching but I am not sure and if they do, they don't let you download the 320k MP3 version.
Its pretty much the same thing except it's integrated into the music app on your Apple devices.
Rather interesting how Apple is taking a rather random approach to this entire "Music" venture. In over their head, or perhaps just too stubborn to hire the right help, Apple Music is a very dull topic.
I know, right? I'm sooo happy with Google Music. Thankfully I no longer have to use iTunes for anything and can just use the Google Music app on my iPhone, android, web, Sonos...you name it. And, more importantly, it works!
I'm thinking of ditching all Apple music software altogether.
Sick of it screwing my metadata up, sick of Match failing, sick of Apple Music complete failure (ruining my personal library in the process! Restoring from backup taking an age of MY TIME with it).
Jezus, sort is flipping out Apple! You promise the earth with how amazingly clever this is all supposed to be, but instead you're wasting your customers time repeatedly, rather than "simplifying" our lives, helping us do more important things.
Sick of it screwing my metadata up, sick of Match failing, sick of Apple Music complete failure (ruining my personal library in the process! Restoring from backup taking an age of MY TIME with it).
Jezus, sort is flipping out Apple! You promise the earth with how amazingly clever this is all supposed to be, but instead you're wasting your customers time repeatedly, rather than "simplifying" our lives, helping us do more important things.