Apple Debuts iTunes Match With Audio Fingerprint for Apple Music Users

[bpeeps]

That's not a wide spread problem. I'd do some troubleshooting before assuming it's a problem for everyone who uses Safari on El Cap.

P.s. I work out of Safari on El Cap for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and never have any issues with freezing. Also, Try checking out the Safari Tech preview to see if it helps!

I never stated it was a problem for everyone, but I'd say 32 pages of a MR forum discussing the freeze/crash issue would be enough to warrant it as a widespread problem. Along with its follow up thread. And the 15 page Apple Discussion post about it. Or this article from OSX Daily discussing it. And that's only the threads I bookmarked hoping for an answer when I was troubleshooting. I'm sure a google search would return many more queries. But that's all irrelevant now; a gracious user here replied with a solution that has worked.

 

[jsmith189]

I removed and re-added an album to iCLM to see what would happen. It matched. But all other albums are still "Apple Music". So... are they going to switch over? Or do we need to remove then re-match them all?

I own both albums in the attached example.

 

[jgelin]

I removed and re-added an album to iCLM to see what would happen. It matched. But all other albums are still "Apple Music". So... are they going to switch over? Or do we need to remove then re-match them all?

I own both albums in the attached example.

I cannot get the matched versions to happen yet... probably hasn’t rolled out to my user ID.
Also, I have the same question, will I need to re-add every track that has been matched as Apple Music from my uploading previous? If so we will lose all of the play counts, ratings, etc. off of each the songs removed from the library too.

 

[funnyboy88]

Anyone seen this hit their account yet? Not me.

 

[Peepo]

Anyone seen this hit their account yet? Not me.

Yes I had previously talked about my experience with it in this thread.

 

[funnyboy88]

I just tested it on an album which it previously had completely mangled and matched incorrectly. Now it works correctly. Also verified that downloading the m4a after a match is DRM free!

Did you have to do anything to enact this test? Was it an album that needed to be UPLOADED or MATCHED? For me, most of the errors are related to songs that Apple Music will need to Upload as they don't exist in the iTunes Catalogue. I have a lot of live versions that Apple Music matched with studio versions instead of uploading the live bootleg I have.

 

[jgelin]

Did you have to do anything to enact this test? Was it an album that needed to be UPLOADED or MATCHED? For me, most of the errors are related to songs that Apple Music will need to Upload as they don't exist in the iTunes Catalogue. I have a lot of live versions that Apple Music matched with studio versions instead of uploading the live bootleg I have.

Some of my personally added content has uploaded next to it and others have Apple Music previous to this being turned ON in apples end. Now, I removed one of my 'uploaded' albums and then added it again this time it shows as matched. I just tried the same with an album that was previously considered 'Apple Music' upon re-adding it was matched. I also would like to add that it matched the proper version where before the one Apple Music pulled would always be CLEAN and drive me crazy because it is a Rap/Hip-hop album so you can easily tell, it is back to explicit now that it has been matched.

Looks like I am going to be going through album by album to change the status to matched to get the full features of DRM-free matching for a majority of my library. It is going to be a pain in the ass to copy all my hearts and stars ratings over to the newly matched stuff but I think it is worth it.

 

[navaira]

Mmm. I'm tempted to try it. I'd have to pay €9.99 for that pleasure though and I can get a lot of ice cream for €9.99 – and I know for certain I will enjoy that...

 

[odedia]

Step away from the Kool-Aid!

I kid you not, I love this service.

 

[jgelin]

It seems that I can just go ahead and find the source files for the itunes library, click them again then it will get the new status of 'matched' and ALL metadata is still preserved along the lines of hearts and starts and playcounts.

This is a LOT easier than I thought it would be settting out from the start.

 

[Yumbo]

Mine finally updated with the recent software updates.
One has to manually rematch everything, unless someone can figure out a faster way?

 

[jgelin]

Mine finally updated with the recent software updates.
One has to manually rematch everything, unless someone can figure out a faster way?

Only way I know of is to find the original music file then open it with iTunes. It will then re-match them to the ones in the cloud using the audio-fingerprinting system.

 

[Yumbo]

Only way I know of is to find the original music file then open it with iTunes. It will then re-match them to the ones in the cloud using the audio-fingerprinting system.

As in reimport?
Or strip the index?
Just realized my own solution.