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Apple Launches iTunes Match with Release of iTunes 10.5.1 [Updated]

Still showing 10.5

Match purchased fine, and enabled on devices fine but versions not showing available update. Might download manual and see if that makes a difference. I love updates.

edit:everything set up and purchased fine, but not until manual update did it start syncing. Screw your -1 one btw.
 
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Does anyone know if the downloaded replacement songs maintain your meta-data (lyrics, genres, etc)? I've asked this question continuously for several months with no answer from the beta testers.

Tony
 
So, is there a way to "soft-proof" the "match" process without paying $25?

I want to know how many songs in my 20,000+ library will actually be matched before I pay $25, because my internet connection isn't great, and the biggest issue for me with google and amazon's services was the lack of a lala.com-style smart matching to avoid uploading huge ALAC files. I keep reading about people's libraries not "matching" with Apple's servers, and forcing them to upload artists that should really be matching instead (Springsteen, Billy Joel, Beatles, etc).

If there is a "test match" that doesn't actually "activate" but just lets you know how many of your songs (and which ones) qualify to their "matching," then I will be able to determine if it's worth it for me.
 
iTunes Match with gift card

Does anyone know if I can get iTunes Match with a US gift card?
 
I've been using the beta for a month or two and it works decent, but even after using things like TuneUp to ensure the metadata is correct for 98% of my 8835 tracks. Only a little over 5000 are actually found as being on iTunes. That still leaves about 2500 tracks to upload. Not bad, but not great either. Then again, the bulk of those unavailable tracks for ones from Eastern European & Asian artists. If you've got all mainstream music you're pretty much all set.

UPDATE: After checking the new GM release it now recognizes 6864 of my 8835 tracks. Thereby leaving almost exactly 2000 to be uploaded. A noticeable improvement from the 10.5.1 b3 indeed!
 
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kbmb said:
So can someone tell me....how does the process work?

You sign up for Match and it...well....matches your music. Does it give you a report allowing you to see what's going to happen.....or does it just start downloading/uploading stuff?

-Kevin
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This is what it does...
 

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Yeah - color me cynical, but I'm not turning iTunes match on until they get rid of the message that says it's a beta.
 
i've been on the fence about this and i'm not sure if its worth it to me to use. but at $25/year ill probably give it a shot at some point just to see if it does work. hopefully its better than i'm thinking it is right now.
 
I'm still confused by this service.

Songs that can be matched by iTunes... are those actually DOWNLOADED from iTunes and stored on the hard drive? Or are they just available in the the cloud? Is the service truly a "Pay $25 and legalize all your music (that Apple can match)" service? Basically, is the higher quality matched music available offline?
 
Tones2 said:
Does anyone know if the downloaded replacement songs maintain your meta-data (lyrics, genres, etc)? I've asked this question continuously for several months with no answer from the beta testers.

Tony
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Wondering this as well. Specifically, album art, year and title... iTunes often has this annoying habit of making classics available only as part of a "Best of" compilation, whereas I've actually gone back to research its original date of release, changed the cover art to the original, etc...

Also, how does it deal with live versions? For example, I've got "Dream On" by Aerosmith in both the album version and a live version. Will iTunes Match overwrite the live version with the album version one?
 
is the iTunes update only for US Users,
im in NZ and can't even update iTunes

I'm keen to get iTunes match, and i hope NZ will get it.
i think, if it works, it will be a great service
 
OllyW said:
I'm happy to let the beta testers Americans sort out all the bugs before we get it.
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Sure, why not. We're already the world's Guinea Pig for testing persistent herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, genetically modified grains and produce, cloned meat products, artificial hormones, indiscriminate antibiotics and dozens of other likely neuro-disrupters and carcinogens.
 
not excepting users right now.

edit: weird, it let me sign up. You can use iTunes Gift cards to pay.
 

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Match progress:

With 4237 tracks, step 1 of 3 (gathering information about the iTunes library) completed after 22 minutes on my Windows 7 laptop.
 
Can't wait for iTunes Match in Canada. 25$ per year will be cheaper than my current online backup plan... And most of my backup size is my iTunes collections. Mostly ripped CDs.
 
blackburn said:
Had to manually update it. iTunes match ain't for me. I'm not downgrading my lossless collection.
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This is what I'm curious about. All of my music is lossless unless of course I purchased it via iTunes. However, for the service, and what it allows me - not to mention I'm not carrying my nice home stereo around with me everywhere I go - I think it'll be great.

The question I have is this: When my music doesn't match something in the Cloud and it requires me to upload that music, is there a way to compress it like you can when dragging music to an iDevice? I don't want to take up space, time, or bandwidth trying to upload lossless files.

At home, lossless is great, but when I'm on headphone or on the go... that quality obviously can't go with me (no, I'm not going to buy high-end headphones... and if I did they as well would stay at home).
 
Couple of questions before taking the plunge:
- that 25,000 song limit, is it per itunes collection or per user account? Right now I have three different logins (thanks, icloud) tied to my itunes, does that mean i will get 75,000 songs?
- I've never been able to figure out how itunes works with non-US music. For example i have a lot of European music not available in the US version of the itunes store, but it is available in the respective Itune stores of the countries form the music originates. So will i able to match those with Itunes match or not?

Thanks!
 
I originally thought this was a cool idea, but the novelty already faded. Plus, I've got a 64 gb iPhone, which I see as plenty of space to store my music off-line and then some. Maybe I would be still interested if I still hadva 32 gb (or less) iPhone.

igazza said:
Hackers will love this, stealing legit music for free.
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Hackers? Hasn't everyone been able to do this for at least the last 5 years?
 
ClemTiger0408 said:
I'm still confused by this service.

Songs that can be matched by iTunes... are those actually DOWNLOADED from iTunes and stored on the hard drive? Or are they just available in the the cloud? Is the service truly a "Pay $25 and legalize all your music (that Apple can match)" service? Basically, is the higher quality matched music available offline?
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Would also like to know the answer to the above ^
 
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