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Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music Library Matching Limits to 100,000 Tracks
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I am currently very annoyed with iTunes Store. Tried to download an album I bought a few years ago. Was unable to. Was told by customer support that I could not get it because it was changed by the content provider so the version I bought was not available. Bah.
iTunes match really had two parts. The main part was the cloud thing, so you could play your music library from any iOS device or your ATV. The match part of it would match your local songs to the Apple ones already in the cloud so you wouldn't have to spend a year uploading your music.
As a side effect of the match process all your snarfed music got legal and (if you did the right process) upgraded to whatever Apple ripped their stuff to, which was usually 256k AAC.
I think it's great, and I use it all the time from my iDevices. Plus on ATV it loads faster than home sharing, which is odd since the library is exactly the same.
As a side effect of the match process all your snarfed music got legal and (if you did the right process) upgraded to whatever Apple ripped their stuff to, which was usually 256k AAC.
I think it's great, and I use it all the time from my iDevices. Plus on ATV it loads faster than home sharing, which is odd since the library is exactly the same.
I'm sensing a personal finance class would benefit you.
This would rise the size of a song quite considerably, right? How much would one song weigh if it was in this format? 25MB+ compared to the 5 - 8MB currently..
Not saying I disagree with you I listen to my music through Bose headphones mainly and would welcome a richer listening experience but I don't think this option would work for Apples streaming service ATM.
No, you're wrong, Apple uses 100% renewable energy for its cloud servers.
Apple.com said:
[1]https://www.apple.com/environment/renewable-resources/
Anyone who is much of a music fan will probably have more than 255 tracks. If they only have 255 tracks I would argue they really don't need iTunes Match, so why would you care?
Oh, so you think the arbitrary limit of how much music people should own is 1000 tracks. OK. But not everyone is you. I probably have about 1000 tracks just by my favourite band. It's not that weird for music fans to have a lot of tracks, or to listen to a lot of them on a regular basis. Not everyone is you. If you are happy with under 1000 tracks good for you, but again I would argue a paid online music storage service is not really that necessary for that a low number of tracks, there are free services for that.
Blah! When is Apple Music coming to ATV3 and no I don't care that I can Airplay it on my iPhone or iPad.
Anyone with less than thousand tracks is poverty stricken and ignorant of any music. Or maybe a teenager.
So who has 100,000 tracks that is not available to stream via AM?You just answered your own question and you still don't understand the point?
Anyone that has this is asking for trouble and should use match instead. AM is bad st matching.
Well Taylor Swift has only made like 80 songs, so I don't really understand how anyone could have more than that on their hard drive.
This. I haven't found it to match my tracks well, album art has gotten changed, it's frustrating.
I could listen to more than 255 songs in a single day...
I have been collecting music for over 30 years and have a huge CD collection ripped losslessly so I can listen using the convenience of iTunes to control it all in my home. I have almost 24K tracks and am adding all the time, so it's not unheard of to bump into the previous limit.
I'm sensing you completely missed the point.
You are kidding, right? Audio is dwarfed by video now: this would have zero impact on the storage or bandwidth needs of Apple or users. Most of my lossless audio files are about 3MB/min. In any case, I couldn't care less about streaming, I just want to be able to BUY uncompressed music without having to buy and rip the CD which then goes into a giant box in the basement. It's a waste.
Obviously, you are about 16 years old or you are trolling. However, the guy that says 100K is not enough has a problem, or is a thief, or probably both.
The average size of an album at 128k is around 100mb. For a lossless FLAC album, its over 500mb. I would say going from their moderate 256k files to nearly uncompressed files would have a huge impact on Apple and their users' bandwidth needs.
They will send an email. The buzz is good right now in the rumor mills 8)
Over the past couple of days, MacRumors has received several reports from users who have been able to upload music libraries of greater than 25,000 tracks to iTunes Match or Apple Music's similar scan-and-match feature, and Macworld's iTunes expert Kirk McElhearn has also noted a number of reports on his personal blog.
Just ahead of the launch of Apple Music in late June, Eddy Cue revealed on Twitter that Apple was working to raise the matching limit from 25,000 tracks to 100,000 for iOS 9, but the increase did not occur in September when iOS 9 debuted.
MacRumors checked with Cue back in October for an update, and he indicated Apple was "definitely working on it" with the expectation the increase would go live "before the end of the year."
Apple has yet to update its support page on uploading music Apple Music to document the new limit.
Article Link: Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music Library Matching Limits
I am not saying for the streaming service, I am saying for the iTunes store, buying music, buying audio files. A standard 5.8MB 256k AAC would weigh in about 46MB in AIFF format.
When you rip your music off CDs in raw AIFF, you can tell quite a bit of difference in audio quality vs. store bought files, mainly in the crispness and sharpness of highs and the tight punchy bass that you do not get with AAC.
So, 40-50MB audio files is what you are generally looking at. Maybe up to 80MB for a 9 minute song. Beatport offers this service. I have bought quite a bit of electronic dance music from the iTunes store, but for a recent album I purchased it from Beatport in AIFF format as well. The artist of this album noted in an interview that he was disappointed with the quality in highly compressed versions of the album, that several of the music elements could not even be heard, including two of the basslines in one of his tracks, whicn were "completely inaudible" in 256k AAC.
After listening to both and comparing, the difference is like night and day.
I am listening on a Yamaha 2.1 system. And I have two pairs of Sony headphones as well, V600 and V700. The differences could be heard easily on those headphones too.
The audio difference is no joke if you are using good equipment...
It's a reasonably safe harbor for your precious audio files that costs very little. I have my collection on multiple services (iTunes Match, Google Play Music, Amazon Music) and backed up on two hard drives at home. If it's important to you, you can never be too safe. Peace of mind at these prices is hard to pass up.
Been waiting for this for years, so, in an attempt to be on-topic, I'll say: This is really good news that makes me happy!
Plus, buy iTunes gift cards at 20+% discounts. Then it's only $.80 per month.