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Apple Debuts iTunes Match With Audio Fingerprint for Apple Music Users
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My album art is totally buggered, half the content of an album has one cover and the other half another. I have one album that has 5 different album covers associated with it.
It's a mess!
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I agree 190%...how about making a right click enable the user to delete ANYTHING....pics, docs etc...Yes I know that would make Steve roll in his grave but frankly, I don't much care.
The front page article states this:
"Apple Music matching now also offers up DRM-free music files, just like iTunes Match. "
So I'm reading this as if you subscribe to Apple Music, iTunes Match (and ALL of it's features including DRM free matching) is included.
Nope, they just improved the matching method.. and your Apple Music tracks still have DRM (obviously).
Check again — "Apple Music matching now also offers up DRM-free music files, just like iTunes Match." I almost missed it, too — seems like they kind of buried the lead by not using THAT somewhere in the headline!
What about tracks that are not available in either iTunes or Apple Music? Is uploading and streaming now a feature of Apple Music? An example of that would be a bit torrent of a live concert you attended from a band that allows such things. EDIT: Seems it always did.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204925
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204925
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Thats what I want to know. Cancel the iTunes match now, and use keep the apple music?
Not entirely true.
You local music remains untouched, but if you download an album or song again, then the DRM version of Apple Music was loaded.
Partially.
I haven't checked it, because i cancelled iTunes Match a few weeks ago, but according to the news, all your matched music stays DRM free now. Everything you load via Apple Music will obviously still contain DRM.
Yes, this is what makes all the matching offering suck. Google does the same stupid thing.
if they match more than 60% of the tracks of an album match the whole album. If they match less than 60% upload the whole album. How hard is that logic?
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HALLELUYAH! Now Apple Music is perfect.
Step away from the Kool-Aid!
To folks that have iTunes Match:
Does it still have issues matching the right versions of songs? E.g., explicit vs clean, compilation vs album, b-sides vs album, live recordings, etc.?
Does it still have issues matching the right versions of songs? E.g., explicit vs clean, compilation vs album, b-sides vs album, live recordings, etc.?
Hopfully this will help provide clarity. From MacWorld's article:
What does this mean for you?
Having both services use the same matching method should improving matching and hopefully making your iTunes library less cloudy. More specifically:
Full article here.
What does this mean for you?
Having both services use the same matching method should improving matching and hopefully making your iTunes library less cloudy. More specifically:
- You don’t use iCloud Music Library: Nothing to see here, move along. You keep playing your music as before.
- You subscribe to iTunes Match subscription, and not to Apple Music:Nothing changes. Your life goes on as normal, and you continue paying $25 a year to have your music (up to 100,000 tracks) in the cloud.
- You have both iTunes Match and Apple Music subscriptions: You can turn off auto-renew for iTunes Match. You won’t need iTunes Match any more, since Apple Music will now match using acoustic fingerprinting, and your files won’t have DRM if you download them on another device. Go into your account in the iTunes Store (Account > View My Account), then go to iTunes in the Cloud > iTune Match, and click Turn Off Automatic Renewal.
- You subscribe only to Apple Music: You won’t notice much of a change. The only difference will be that new matched tracks will have an iCloud Status of Matched, rather than Apple Music, and they won’t have DRM. You can force older downloaded tracks to change their status by deleting the local copies and re-downloading them; iTunes won’t automatically do this for you. And you can play these matched tracks on any device, even one that doesn’t have an Apple Music subscription or isn’t signed into Apple Music. Note that tracks you add from Apple Music to your library still have DRM; this change only affects tracks that are matched from music you own.
Full article here.
For a moment there, I thought this article was saying the fixed itunes match issues. Sadly, it's to fix apple music issues by putting people on itunes match. Ha ha.
They used meta data to match a song? o,O seriously, Apple? Even with audio fingerprinting it doesn't work so well outside mainstream... If Apple sets the threshold for a match to low, the result will be that very similar tracks are replaced, which will mainly hit originals VS remastered and possibly remixes that barely differ from the original.
That's the reason I'm no longer launch-customer... Products aint final until at least Version 1.2 if not even 2.x
Same reason I never upgrade the OS to a fresh version like 9.0.0... always wait for a few bugfix updates... e.g. 9.0.3.
That's the reason I'm no longer launch-customer... Products aint final until at least Version 1.2 if not even 2.x
Same reason I never upgrade the OS to a fresh version like 9.0.0... always wait for a few bugfix updates... e.g. 9.0.3.
But only DRM-free for the music you own. Apple Music tracks have to include DRM because you don't own them.