Well that's certainly a deal breaker for me, assuming that your double negative (i.e. can't not) was an accident.
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Apple Launches iTunes Match with Release of iTunes 10.5.1 [Updated]
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Well that's certainly a deal breaker for me, assuming that your double negative (i.e. can't not) was an accident.
Tony
Since there is no DRM, once the file is back on your machine it is yours to do what you want with it. If you don't renew, you'll lose access to the cloud but any music on your machine is unaffected. So, be smart and don't have anything on the cloud that isn't permanently stored somewhere else.
All I have to say is...
Freakin Cool.
Just signed up, paid my $25 and now I have access to my very substantial music collection anywhere I am. Lovin it so far....
Itunes is still scanning my library (250GB) could take a while, so I am still wondering what the whole match thing will work, but I'd pay the 25 just to have access to all (or most) of my music anywhere in the world.
Freakin Cool.
Just signed up, paid my $25 and now I have access to my very substantial music collection anywhere I am. Lovin it so far....
Itunes is still scanning my library (250GB) could take a while, so I am still wondering what the whole match thing will work, but I'd pay the 25 just to have access to all (or most) of my music anywhere in the world.
Can't have more than 25 thousand songs!
How incredibly lame. Downloaded and installed new version of iTunes. Go to subscribe to iTunes match and am denied because my library has more than 25 thousand songs. I would just assume most folks have more than this and to not be able to use this service because of the amount of music in my library is ********.
How incredibly lame. Downloaded and installed new version of iTunes. Go to subscribe to iTunes match and am denied because my library has more than 25 thousand songs. I would just assume most folks have more than this and to not be able to use this service because of the amount of music in my library is ********.
Yes, you can keep the files if you don't resubscribe.
As I said on another thread (where these same questions are asked endlessly), Apple would be setting up a time bomb for themselves if they encouraged people to replace their files with a copy that expires in the future. They just aren't going to do that.
So how does iTunes Match work on Apple TV? Does it stream music from the cloud directly to the Apple TV? Or does it just facilitate downloading music from the cloud to the iTunes library connected to your Apple TV?
Before I sign up for this I would really like to understand if I can get all the matched 256kbs versions downloaded at once or do I have to click through 25K times?
Awesome, it failed to match (and is uploading) 600 songs, and I don't see any way of telling which ones failed.
Okay I usedstand the guy did an FAQ of how it works... but I'm going based off of Google Music [old Android User]...
Is my music backed up on a site or something like a cloud server?
Or is it something where I click on itunes... then I have to download the song in order to listen to it?
Which apple made things clear when they just decided "hey we'll release today".. especially knowing so many people are thinking like myself..
Is my music backed up on a site or something like a cloud server?
Or is it something where I click on itunes... then I have to download the song in order to listen to it?
Which apple made things clear when they just decided "hey we'll release today".. especially knowing so many people are thinking like myself..
I believe that it actually does some audio sampling of the tracks, like sound hound. Otherwise I could just rename any random tracks with the correct meta-data for an album and get it.
re: artwork problems, etc.
When your artwork only displays when clicking on the album, not not as individual songs play? I *think* that's due to the art getting embedded into the first song on the album but not onto any of the other tracks?
iTunes got things all mixed up with regards to managing album art (in my opinion, anyway) back when they introduced the idea of allowing it to be kept in a separate artwork directory and database. The way it USED to work, you'd only see album art when a song played if that art was physically saved onto the end of the music file itself. iTunes knew how to extract it from the end of a music track and display it, when it was present.
Later, I guess someone at Apple decided it would save a little disk space if they just stored one copy of the artwork in a special folder and indexed it to appear with all the tracks they linked it to. Problem is, that caused you to have two different possible methods for handling the album art, because they still kept backwards compatibility with the "embedded art" method.
Personally, I prefer the original method, because your album art travels with the files that way when you copy the music over from one place to another. And really, the additional space it takes up is hardly noticeable.
But now, I think the deal is -- iTunes will default to using the old (embedded artwork) method if it detects any on the first song in a particular album. That means you have to make sure it's embedded on ALL of the remaining tracks if you want it to show up as various songs play individually from that album. When you ask iTunes to auto download album art, it's only going to do so for albums that don't have anything embedded on the first track in the collection.
In any case, you can right-click on the picture of the artwork in the bottom left corner of your iTunes screen (as long as you've got it set so the art shows there as songs are highlighted to play). Click "copy" and then click to select a track from the same album that has no art showing, and right-click "paste" in the corner to embed it on that song. That should fix your issue, as long as the art does show for at least one of the tracks in the album giving you problems.
When your artwork only displays when clicking on the album, not not as individual songs play? I *think* that's due to the art getting embedded into the first song on the album but not onto any of the other tracks?
iTunes got things all mixed up with regards to managing album art (in my opinion, anyway) back when they introduced the idea of allowing it to be kept in a separate artwork directory and database. The way it USED to work, you'd only see album art when a song played if that art was physically saved onto the end of the music file itself. iTunes knew how to extract it from the end of a music track and display it, when it was present.
Later, I guess someone at Apple decided it would save a little disk space if they just stored one copy of the artwork in a special folder and indexed it to appear with all the tracks they linked it to. Problem is, that caused you to have two different possible methods for handling the album art, because they still kept backwards compatibility with the "embedded art" method.
Personally, I prefer the original method, because your album art travels with the files that way when you copy the music over from one place to another. And really, the additional space it takes up is hardly noticeable.
But now, I think the deal is -- iTunes will default to using the old (embedded artwork) method if it detects any on the first song in a particular album. That means you have to make sure it's embedded on ALL of the remaining tracks if you want it to show up as various songs play individually from that album. When you ask iTunes to auto download album art, it's only going to do so for albums that don't have anything embedded on the first track in the collection.
In any case, you can right-click on the picture of the artwork in the bottom left corner of your iTunes screen (as long as you've got it set so the art shows there as songs are highlighted to play). Click "copy" and then click to select a track from the same album that has no art showing, and right-click "paste" in the corner to embed it on that song. That should fix your issue, as long as the art does show for at least one of the tracks in the album giving you problems.
Awesome, it failed to match (and is uploading) 600 songs, and I don't see any way of telling which ones failed.
There is a new column called iCould Status that tells you if it is Matched, Uploaded, Ineligible, Duplicate, etc. Just enable that column and you'll see what happened. Until the whole process is done many of the will say "waiting"
Wait....there's a cap of 25,000 songs?
Yeah.. Looks like I should'nt even bother. Guess I'll just download gMusic and use my Google Music account I've had for months...
That's pretty crappy of apple. They know better. Even though I know I wont ever listen to 25,000 songs on my iphone.... the option is great. Especially because I dont want to use the space on my iphone for music. Just photos and apps
I hope thats not the case or that they offer an upgraded solution. I am about a few hundred songs short of that.
You wouldn't have access to iCloud/iTune Match on a non-iOS iPod, it would still sync with your computer.
Just use Time Machine as you always did, so you don't have to worry. You do have backups, right?
I have many boxes full of CDs in the loft, generally ripped at 192 Kbit/sec at a time when 256 KBit/sec just took too much HD space. I'd love to upgrade to 256 Kbit/sec without having to rip all the CDs again. And of course these CDs are getting older and their lifetime isn't unlimited.
Mee to. I can't use it. I already have about 60,000 sings. Too bad. Maybe they will may a 1-T iPod Classic
OH, I get it. NOT purchased from the iTunes store. about a 1/4 of mine were so I should be good for quite a while.
This is probably to stop people who got most of the music from napster from getting free upgrades. Why upgrade someones music if NONE of it was purchased from apple?