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Apple Debuts iTunes Match With Audio Fingerprint for Apple Music Users
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I agree, but knowing what we know now about the new royalty rate proposal, it is no wonder why Apple ended the iTunes Radio.
But you are right, the Match subscribers should of had iTunes Radio until their sub ended.
In which case you don't understand what this story is about. Nothing to do with Spotify. If you are a Apple Music and/or Apple match user, this interests you.
As both an Apple Music and iTunes Match subscriber, it appears iTunes Match has now disappeared from my Subscriptions page, which is awesome news.
Thank you Apple for simplifying and streamlining your services, and at the same time cutting costs for the consumer!
Thank you Apple for simplifying and streamlining your services, and at the same time cutting costs for the consumer!
Do you know how long I've been searching for a fix for this? I've tried everything BUT uninstalling flash. I even went back to using Google Chrome. You sir, are a God.They did. It's called uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
Cool, I just turned off my iTunes Match renewal. Match served me well for years, but now it's redundant. This is good for my family, too.
Apple Music. Hot mess.
Hopefully this actually does fix things. iTunes Match, even when it first debuted, was at least pretty accurate for me. (And I'm a DJ that has a lot of custom tracks / mixes). The only problems I noticed consistently was when the runtimes were the same between two different versions / edits. As long as the runtimes were different, iTunes match usually knew it needed to upload.
However, Apple Music / iCloud Music Library has actually been getting WORSE lately. About two months ago, it retroactively changed a few remixes to the normal versions on my phone. Still has the metadata of the remix, but plays the original song. Runtime shows that of the remix. When the song is playing, it's of the original song. Terrible. This means that the local file I had stored on my iPhone, while potentially somewhere on the phone (or maybe it's not), is no longer accessible. Makes no kind of sense.
It's borderline unusable for me at the moment, so hopefully this really does fix at least 99% of the issue it's had.
Hopefully this actually does fix things. iTunes Match, even when it first debuted, was at least pretty accurate for me. (And I'm a DJ that has a lot of custom tracks / mixes). The only problems I noticed consistently was when the runtimes were the same between two different versions / edits. As long as the runtimes were different, iTunes match usually knew it needed to upload.
However, Apple Music / iCloud Music Library has actually been getting WORSE lately. About two months ago, it retroactively changed a few remixes to the normal versions on my phone. Still has the metadata of the remix, but plays the original song. Runtime shows that of the remix. When the song is playing, it's of the original song. Terrible. This means that the local file I had stored on my iPhone, while potentially somewhere on the phone (or maybe it's not), is no longer accessible. Makes no kind of sense.
It's borderline unusable for me at the moment, so hopefully this really does fix at least 99% of the issue it's had.
I have iTunes Match and am a Apple Music subscriber. Actually, I have the Family Plan, sharing in total with 6 family members. I have some music in iTunes cloud that cannot be found in AM. Can I now share all music from the cloud with my family members? Previously it was not possible.
I'm still waiting for iTunes Match to stop taking my clean versions and matching them with explicit versions. Some of them are commercial edits and others are my own. Sometimes a matched album with be half clean and half explicit. It sure sucks when I'm DJ'ing school and corporate events, as well as driving with the kids in the car.
Does this sound like a good idea, or just redundant? I have Match but not Apple Music. My plan is to:
1) download a copy of every song in my collection to my mac mini server;
2) Cancel iTunes Match / let expire;
3) Subscribe to Apple Music now that I can have a true Family Plan
I don't see that I will miss out on any features I have now.
1) download a copy of every song in my collection to my mac mini server;
2) Cancel iTunes Match / let expire;
3) Subscribe to Apple Music now that I can have a true Family Plan
I don't see that I will miss out on any features I have now.
Yes I think inevitably the plan will be to kill it off and make everyone take Apple Music for Match.
I agree, nothing like competition gives the customer choice. I also have tried Spotify and Apple Music, and like your self I preferred it over Spotify. People have criticised the UI of Apple Music, but that was one of the things I preferred over Spotify's UI, which I hated. Really missed the "For You" feature of Apple Music when I tried Spotify out for a month.
This is the reason i have recently switched from iPhone to S7 Edge + a 128Gb micros sd card. I switched to apple all those years ago because it was simple and just worked. It's no longer simple, and it no longer just works. I mean read this article again.....sure 99% of the population just look at it and say WTF does all this crap mean !!! So now as one of the 99% i just store all my music on my phone.
I dare say i will be tempted back when the iPhone 8 comes out but so far i am very glad i switched. I have also switched from photos to google photos (and its much better!!!). I love apple music but i might move to Spotify just to complete the switch....
I dare say i will be tempted back when the iPhone 8 comes out but so far i am very glad i switched. I have also switched from photos to google photos (and its much better!!!). I love apple music but i might move to Spotify just to complete the switch....
With this switch it will make it very easy for them to keep iTunes Match. Want access to our entire catalog available in Apple Music for $120.00/yr or just your music with iTunes Match for $25.00/yr? Both services will work across all your authorized devices.
You don't need iTunes Match or Apple Music for that, iTunes is perfectly capable to do this on its own without having either of those services enabled.
