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Apple Launches iTunes Match with Release of iTunes 10.5.1 [Updated]
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Seems like it uses them all. I have tons of music that I have bought in China, EU, and the UK. It all "seems" to be matching. We shall see.
That's a really good tip, thanks for adding that. Going to go create a couple of smart playlists real quick...
Does anybody know if the metadata of songs can be tweaked in order to match better? For example, if a song I ripped does not get matched (maybe I have a spelling error in the name or album metadata), is it possible to delete those uploaded songs out of iTunes Match and have it try again? Or is it a one-shot deal per song? Or does it not use metadata to match at all and just uses an audio fingerprint?
Anyone know how the cache/storage works on your iPhone once you have iTunes Match enabled? Can you define a certain size? Or does this function similarly to iTunes in the cloud that already exists for previous purchases (i.e. I would have to download and delete songs manually).
Thanks for posting this, which is exactly the SAME thing I have been saying/explaining for ages here.
Unfortunately, US citizens think that their legal system (a ridiculous mish-mash of DMCA-influenced legislation) is the one applicable to the rest of the world. MOST of the civilized Western countries, including for example Switzerland, Brazil, Germany and others, do NOT consider pure downloading of music as illegal or "theft".
Music is a non-rivalrous good regulated by copyright and moderated by public social goals; so ordinary "ownership" principles do not apply as much as they would for someone shoplifting a CD store (despite all the idiotic campaigns created by some of the RIAAs of the world).
Let's hope this BS stops once and for all in international forums like this...because I am tired of having to teach people that the US is not the only country on this planet.
Keith..
Thank you, I haven't been paying attention to the other threads since I am not a beta tester.
Thanks again! Great news too boot also.
I would definitely not assume that "most folks" have more than 25,000 songs.
What is that, like 150+ GB? Two months worth of music played straight through, 24 hours a day, with no repeating? Tens of thousands of dollars worth of music? No, I don't think that represents "most folks" music collection.
I have 56,673 songs loaded onto the iTunes library I use with the external hard drive I carry around with me regularly.
In case you were wondering, 56,673 songs gives me 172.5 days, and is 358.95 GB of music data.
You can delete the song from your library and iCloud and try again. But based on my experience with the betas I really don't think metadata/song info is involved at all. It seems like all tracks are sampled for sound.
What i want to know is...
Where is the switch that says DO NOT sync over cellular network? I could totally see ATT being complete wankers about data caps.
Where is the switch that says DO NOT sync over cellular network? I could totally see ATT being complete wankers about data caps.
I have 56,673 songs loaded onto the iTunes library I use with the external hard drive I carry around with me regularly.
In case you were wondering, 56,673 songs gives me 172.5 days, and is 358.95 GB of music data.
I'm in a similar boat here - 45,004 songs, 172.6 days, and is 404.23 GB of music (I have lots of live music, which is why it's less songs and more time). I guess we're SOL, huh?
If I only want to use iTunes match for more easily getting 256 kbps versions of songs that I originally ripped from my CD's at 128 or 192 kpbs while maintaining all of the metadata, I assume I can do this (via download) and then turn OFF the service on my PC and never enable it in my devices - CORRECT?
Tony
Tony
No local syncing
Per this support article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4913
So does that mean you also can't manually copy music from iTunes to your iDevice? I don't have auto syncing....I manually manage.
-Kevin
Per this support article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4913
So does that mean you also can't manually copy music from iTunes to your iDevice? I don't have auto syncing....I manually manage.
-Kevin
I can see the posts now, "I used how much data last month?" I think this is a great feature if you have unlimited data, not if you are limited to 200meg, if you have to up it to 2gig that's another 10 bucks a month. So an additional 120.00 a year. Not such a cheap service anymore. Unless i am missing something where you are not charged for data with itunes match.
Ty for your response. This is at least good news in that future updates to Match may let me match previously uploaded files.
Yes very likely. Through the betas, some songs that were uploaded were eventually matched by Apple's servers. Oddly, a few that were previously matched are now uploaded.
I would definitely not assume that "most folks" have more than 25,000 songs.
What is that, like 150+ GB? Two months worth of music played straight through, 24 hours a day, with no repeating? Tens of thousands of dollars worth of music
I am in this boat also. I have over 1200 cd's that I have ripped and I have also puchased some music from iTunes and Amazon. Guess I will keep using Zumocast.
Bummer.
No problem, I wasn't criticising for asking the questions here, just that the same questions will he asked on this thread over and over again, on an almost continuous two page loop, if it's like the others.