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Apple Releases iTunes 12.2.1 With iTunes Match Fix
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Just tried it, it doesn’t. All songs still have FairPlay 2 applied to them, even though they came originally from my library.
Huh. Have you downloaded the files? If so, you'd probably have to remove the download first. The tracks that were incorrectly tagged as 'Apple Music' automatically changed back to 'Matched' for me. Sorry that I can't be of more help.
I created a smart playlist with iCloud status “Matched”. There used to be 6 songs on there, the rest was either classified as “Uploaded” or “Apple Music”. Now the Matched list is empty. I’ve removed the local files of a few songs and redownloaded from Apple Music again, but the same DRM is applied. Seems like I need to start over.
I now deleted a song fron My Music completely and imported a music file from backup. I added it to my library, logged out of Apple Music and back in to kickstart the matching process again. The song is again matched as Apple Music with FairPlay 2. This is so annoying.
Any albums added to My Music before iTunes 12.2 was released still don't have album art in iTunes. Incredibly annoying considering I transferred over from Beats so I have a ton of albums without artwork on iTunes. Artwork exists on all of them on iOS. Right-clicking and choosing "Get Album Art" also doesn't work.
I don't subscribe to Apple Music or iTunes match. How does this update effect other stuff in the program?
In all the years I've used iTunes, that function has never worked for me.
The music is not yours, you just have a license to listen to it.
True for all digital content..
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/digital-media-licensed-not-owned
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/sep/03/do-you-own-your-digital-content
http://www.zdnet.com/article/who-owns-your-digital-downloads-hint-its-not-you/
The option is still there. They just moved and renamed it. It's now under File/Library/Update iCloud Music Library. Obviously it requires that you have enabled iCloud Music Library in the Preferences.
I hope so. I use Apple Music through iOS 95% of the time, and it's buggy as hell. Playlist sharing doesn't work anymore on iOS, going to the artist page on the iPad kills the Music app reproducibly every single time, "Add to Playlist" on songs not in "My Music" yet is a hit-and-miss affair, songs that have been made available offline twice (through a playlist, then directly) can't be removed from "My Music" without some major surgery, the touch targets at the bottom of the iPad Music app are messed up, etc.
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I hope iPhone 6S plus can accept my 11.4 iTunes just as it is...
It mostly doesn’t work, because it is stupid. If the song, artist and album doesn’t exactly match the one in the iTunes Store, the album artwork won’t be found. Once you change these to to the iTunes Store, it will work. Also, if you bought a song from a single or EP, you can’t get iTunes to downloaded the album artwork instead, because it will always insist on downloading the artwork of the store item.
Do you still pay for Match?
If you pay for Match and you upload your own music files, you will (well, should, looks like there were a few bugs) be able to get them back in not-DRM form if downloaded again. However, if you stop paying for Match, your tracks in Apple Music will be converted with DRM if you attempt to download them again, which means you'll lose those songs (and those gathered through the service) if you stop paying for Apple Music.
In a nutshell:
Match keeps your own files (or 'matched and downloaded') that have no DRM as your own while in the cloud.
Apple Music will DRM all files funneled through the cloud, but will not retroactively DRM your owned files (unless deleted and redownloaded).
I'm glad Apple fixed this issue, but I'm still concerned. What happens next time when there are minor issues, and Apple takes up to several days to fix it?
I've been eager to subscribe to Match since it was first announced. However, on this forum I keep reading about so many problems. Until I am confident Apple fixes all of these issues, I will not risk my digital music collection.
- Matching clean version of a song when original was the explicit version
- Matching non-album version of a song (from a compilation, greatest hits, single, etc) when the entire original album is owned
- Matching non mastered-for-itunes version of a song when the mastered-for-itunes version is available in the itunes store
- Putting wrong album artwork on a song
- Wrong song plays when selected from a playlist
- Playlists don't sync, or incorrectly sync, across devices
- Song metadata gets messed up (playcounts, ratings, last date played, etc)
- Matching clean version of a song when original was the explicit version
- Matching non-album version of a song (from a compilation, greatest hits, single, etc) when the entire original album is owned
- Matching non mastered-for-itunes version of a song when the mastered-for-itunes version is available in the itunes store
- Putting wrong album artwork on a song
- Wrong song plays when selected from a playlist
- Playlists don't sync, or incorrectly sync, across devices
- Song metadata gets messed up (playcounts, ratings, last date played, etc)
i read somewhere this does not fix the iCloud Music Library issues? could lose library again if you turn on iCloud Music Library.
could lose library again if you turn on iCloud Music Library.
The featured stations and genre play buttons underneath Beats 1 still don't do anything at all - if these are for paying / free trial users only, or for certain countries only, it ought to at least say so
It's still showing posts from a band I've never liked in 'connect' too.
It's still showing posts from a band I've never liked in 'connect' too.
I wasn’t ever a member of Match. So what about those of us that had everything turn to toast so badly that we had to replace all our music from a backup, not just the .itl file? And weren't ever a member of Match? Will it fix it for us?
Yep. It's all in Time Machine. That said, I've gone the better-safe-than-sorry route and copied all my files to an external drive and a flash drive. When I buy/rip new music, I copy it to the "safe" backups before I add it to iTunes. And I don't even have iCML/AM turned on. After the mess that iCML made, I just don't trust iTunes at all.
As I want to be able to use AM, I'm going to have to turn iCML on at some point. That backup is going to be where I go when things go south, not Time Machine, because for TM I have to remember when I did things, what "time" was safe. With my "safe" drive, I don't.
This is exactly what I am worried about. I have 16000 songs that are matched/uploaded. I deleted all songs from my mac. Some songs are backed up, not all. So if I download a pearl jam record that I own today with Apple Music, then when my Apple music expires, then can I again download that same album without DRM? I plan on keeping match, but not Apple Music. Thank you.