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Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music Library Matching Limits to 100,000 Tracks

usarioclave said:
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.
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I assume this process is solely for ripped CDs. I have a lot of vinyl that I've transferred, imported to iTunes and labeled with all the pertinent info. Match lets me listen to them all in the Cloud and the album art I've applied does appear, but none of the songs have been replaced by higher quality tracks. (The crackle of the vinyl is still noticeable.)
 
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farewelwilliams said:
Cue: "Hey did you increase the limit yet?"
Engineer: "No."
Cue: "Can you do it right now? People have been waiting for this update."
Engineer: (groans) "Fine." (changes variable from 25000 to 100000)
Engineer: "Done."
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But forgets to also change several arrays and their subscripts and skips unit testing only to result in 'out of range' errors in QA.
 
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Twimfy said:
I'm still confused at to whether I need both or not? Will Apple Music + my storage space subscription to the same thing as iTunes Match?
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Your storage space subscription has nothing to do with either iTunes Match or Apple Music - the storage space is used for different purposes (iOS backups, iCloud mail archives, iCloud Photo Library, iCloud Drive). One of the key differences between Match and Music (as someone else noted) is that Match is not DRM (no DRM on the music that's uploaded), while Apple Music uses DRM tracks. If you unsubscribe to Apple Music, any music you've downloaded (including the music you "own" that you matched), will be removed from your device.

WardC said:
The only REAL feature I want out of iTunes and the music store is to offer truly uncompressed AIFF audio files of all tracks in their database. I don't care if Apple charges more or makes it a premium service. I can easily tell the audio quality difference in Apple's 256k AAC and a True 1411K AIFF file, the difference is tremendous if you use good speakers or headphones. Can't really tell squat difference if you are using iPod earbuds.

Beatport offers this service, but they don't carry the full spectrum of music that Apple carries. As of now, the only way to get this quality on some music is to buy the CDs and rip them, after all , whatI am talking about is the raw full quality 44.1k 16-bit AIFF file which contains 100% of the audio data. Apple's current 256k AAC is so compressed it only contains about one-eighth of the full audio data of the track.

It's almost 2016 and Apple should be doing this by now. The nation's carriers have the bandwidth and Apple has the server space...I just wonder why Apple won't carry a premium uncompressed file service. I am hoping they do make this an upcoming feature because I know I'm not the only one who wants full-quality uncompressed audio at the iTunes Music Store!!
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As much as I feel for you - I've referred to "compressed" formats as "data destruction" since I started using MPEG Layer 2 over ISDN for broadcasts back in the 90s - you are forgetting that file size is not just about bandwidth (which is not necessarily cheap everywhere you go), but also about storage. I can see it now... MacRumors headline: "Apple Music Goes Uncompressed." Deluge of posts: "Greedy Apple Forces Us to Buy More Flash Storage!"

And as to "more iCloud storage instead of more songs..." Huge difference in the space requirements. For every item "matched" that's already in the Apple Music library, we're talking about less than 1 KB of storage per song title. That means someone who actually has 100,000 songs may be using less than 1 GB for their entire music list. And that's only for those who need it (probably a very small percentage of Apple customers). Or... let's give over 100 million people another 5GB of free storage (that they probably will use).
 
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WardC said:
The only REAL feature I want out of iTunes and the music store is to offer truly uncompressed AIFF audio files of all tracks in their database. I don't care if Apple charges more or makes it a premium service. I can easily tell the audio quality difference in Apple's 256k AAC and a True 1411K AIFF file, the difference is tremendous if you use good speakers or headphones.
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I should hope you're using ALAC or FLAC nowadays, full-bitrate AIFF (or WAV) is wasteful.
 
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The majority of the USA is on DSL or Cable, or Fiber by now. Probably less than 1% of "heavy" iTunes downloaders are connected via dialup or ISDN. And the deal is for an audiophile type setup, you are talking about a desktop computer or a laptop, where storage is not a problem...people that use iPhones and iPods with the default white earbud type headphones are not going to benefit from 1411kbps AIFF...but basically I have seen and know the audio quality difference, and I would happily pay several hundred dollars to have a large handful of my iTunes library in a better audio format. Apple is just not making it feasible.
 
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WardC said:
The only REAL feature I want out of iTunes and the music store is to offer truly uncompressed AIFF audio files of all tracks in their database. I don't care if Apple charges more or makes it a premium service. I can easily tell the audio quality difference in Apple's 256k AAC and a True 1411K AIFF file, the difference is tremendous if you use good speakers or headphones. Can't really tell squat difference if you are using iPod earbuds.

Beatport offers this service, but they don't carry the full spectrum of music that Apple carries. As of now, the only way to get this quality on some music is to buy the CDs and rip them, after all , whatI am talking about is the raw full quality 44.1k 16-bit AIFF file which contains 100% of the audio data. Apple's current 256k AAC is so compressed it only contains about one-eighth of the full audio data of the track.

It's almost 2016 and Apple should be doing this by now. The nation's carriers have the bandwidth and Apple has the server space...I just wonder why Apple won't carry a premium uncompressed file service. I am hoping they do make this an upcoming feature because I know I'm not the only one who wants full-quality uncompressed audio at the iTunes Music Store!!
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Oh, another one of those "golden ears" that thinks he can actually differentiate between AAC 256 and lossless.
Also, AIFF? You do know that loseless is loseless, right? So you should be using FLAC or ALAC, unless that you like wasting space.
 
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I have used iTunes Match since the service came out. I never had an issue with it until a few months ago when my HDD crashed. Lost all my iTunes stuff but did not think it was a big deal because of iTunes Match.

Long story short, my iTunes Match disappeared and after many phone calls to Apple, they told me the engineers looked at my account and that my account shows that I do not have any music uploaded/matched and I never did.

Pretty crazy.
 
I agree with the couple other people who mentioned lackluster Live album matching. I ain't going to back to modify all my catalog of Live albums for Apple Music. As much as I did like it, without proper uploading, I left after the free trial and continued on with Google Music All Access. Not as pretty, but way better personality.
 
Been waiting for this to happen. My 46K library is now finally all available to be uploaded. Hooray!

Still keeping a backup of everything though. Not trusting everything in one place, not after 16 years of collecting, editing tags, renaming and getting high quality album covers. I've heard all the horror stories.
 
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sshambles said:
Been waiting for this to happen. My 46K library is now finally all available to be uploaded. Hooray!

Still keeping a backup of everything though. Not trusting everything in one place, not after 16 years of collecting, editing tags, renaming and getting high quality album covers. I've heard all the horror stories.
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My 1500 song (all legal) library's gonna see no impact. Ironically, I'm a DJ and I've been using iTunes since when it was Soundjam.
 
djgamble said:
My 1500 song (all legal) library's gonna see no impact. Ironically, I'm a DJ and I've been using iTunes since when it was Soundjam.
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Cool. These days, it's far easier for literally anyone with a phone and $10 a month to access pretty much every song they want to. Beats the Winamp days!

If they could just fix the bugs with people with large libraries making adding and editing things ending with a colour wheel for 30seconds, that'd be great.
 
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I'm curious, what kind of target audience is iTunes Match for?

I often wonder if I should go for iTunes Match than Apple Music.
 
LuminousFX said:
I'm curious, what kind of target audience is iTunes Match for?

I often wonder if I should go for iTunes Match than Apple Music.
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iTunes Match is perfect if you already have the music you listen to locally, and you want to be able to pull it at any given time no matter your location.

Apple Music is great if you don't already have that music locally.

Except iTunes Match is a broken POS that doesn't work since the introduction of Apple Music. It at least functioned right for me before Apple Music came out.
 
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lkrupp said:
Anybody with over a thousand or so tracks is a compulsive hoarder. Instead of Apple raising some limit those people should be compelled to get professional help from a psychiatrist.
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Not at all. My "Most Played" list has more than 1700 songs!

I've got 25000 tracks of all kinds of genres and am constantly listening to them (I particularly like rock & roll, alternative rock, country, and classical). Automated playlists help me find gems and music I haven't listened to in a long time.

Now that the limit has been bumped, I'll add the remaining 40000 tracks that had been left out until now.
 
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Google Play Music song storage limits. You can add up to 50,000 songs to Google Play Music from your personal music collection usingGoogle Play Music for Chrome or Music Manager (up to 300MB per song). Once you've added your music, you can listen to it through theGoogle Play Music app and on your computer.
 
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