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Apple Temporarily Halts New iTunes Match Subscriptions in New International Markets

DarkKnightNine said:
I'm terrified that this is the Apple we will gradually see more of as Steve Jobs is not there to chew some asses and ******* the people responsible for these screw ups. Apple is now governed by committee with Tim Cook acting merely as the mediator. The Steve Jobs era of Apple was a dictatorship where the All Mighty Steve made sure **** was done right or heads would roll (completely the frak off)!
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There was always a committee, Jobs didn't hire great people just to say no to every suggestion they made. Just watch the past AllThingsD interview with Jobs and read the biography and the arguments he had with staff and lost. Stop being hysterical without good cause.
 
The service is not working, closed but they were dry fast at charging my card. I guess I'll be calling for refund.
 
yourtoys7 said:
The service is not working, closed but they were dry fast at charging my card. I guess I'll be calling for refund.
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What exactly is your problem? Apart from the problem that it was completely overloaded in the first 12 hours, it works just fine now, without any problems.
 
Deleting old files, downloading new copies

I just deleted my 3000+ Matched tracks and am now downloading it all in 256kbps non-DRM goodness. If many people are doing this (as I suspect they are), no wonder Apple's servers are taking a pounding.
 
I'ma dumbdumb

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I kept clicking the okay button on this article, thinking it was a message from Apple. Ha!:)
 
Can someone please explain me how to get my music back from iTunes Match? Is there a site I download the music? Or I only can get it on my iPhone/iPad, and my old-mp3 stay in my computer? It's a bit confusing.

Nevermind, I only needed to delete the matched ones.
 
yourtoys7 said:
The service is not working, closed but they were dry fast at charging my card. I guess I'll be calling for refund.
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They won't refund you - another dozen already tried. I asked for 1 day more of service to compensate the day it didn't work at all and they replied no.

I guess with Steve Jobs gone, the service from now on won't be as good.
 
brewno said:
They won't refund you - another dozen already tried. I asked for 1 day more of service to compensate the day it didn't work at all and they replied no.

I guess with Steve Jobs gone, the service from now on won't be as good.
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I'll give it a shot, if not maybe I'll give a call to my credit card., but if it works I'll let it go.
 
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i got itunes match on the mac that syncs to my iphone. all seemed to be working fine and i even noticed that my mac playlists were on my phone now too (although i didn't want them)
before i got itunes match i had dated playlists on my mac by the same name as updated playlists on my iphone. after having got itunes match, it overwrote my iphones playlist with the dated itunes playlist of the same name.
When i sync my iphone with my mac, the updated playlists show as if they are on my iphone, yet on the iphone itself, they aren't.
When i turn off itunes match on my iphone, all the playlists dissapear, yet itunes still tells me my iphone has my updated playlists.
 
brewno said:
They won't refund you - another dozen already tried. I asked for 1 day more of service to compensate the day it didn't work at all and they replied no.

I guess with Steve Jobs gone, the service from now on won't be as good.
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Christ, overstatement of the century. Plenty of companies would do the same. Pretty sure Blizzard don't always refund paying subscribers when their WoW realms go down. COMMUNIST PIGS!

On a side note, just paid the £21 for the service. Like spotify except without access to lots of music you don't want. Excellent.
 
you are a pirate, it seems

WeegieMac said:
Most of my collection came from CD's which I've long since sold as I never used them after discovering MP3 and using a hard drive "jukebox".
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In the US at least, that would mean that "most of your collection" is pirated material.

When you sell the CDs, you sell the rights to the music tracks on them - and your compressed rips are then pirated. Even if you retain the CDs after ripping them, there is some ambiguity about whether ripped tracks are "fair use" or "backups"....
 
thebeautyisfake said:
Christ, overstatement of the century. Plenty of companies would do the same. Pretty sure Blizzard don't always refund paying subscribers when their WoW realms go down. COMMUNIST PIGS!

On a side note, just paid the £21 for the service. Like spotify except without access to lots of music you don't want. Excellent.
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Excuse me, who did you call a "communist pig"? Do you even know what a communist is? In any case, he is in his right to ask for a refund if he isn't satisfied with the services. There are consumer rights, you know.
 
For £22 its not a bad deal at all. All my music gets legitimized, and i get an upgrade from 128k to 256k, AND my entire catalogue is backed up to the cloud and can be mirrored to any iDevice/Mac.

Pretty pleased with it thus far.
 
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Another question if someone can possibly answer?

I've streamed a couple of songs to try out the service, using my iPhone 4.

When I sync my iPhone, click on the little arrow to drop down the content options, and click on music, it shows a list of the songs I've listened to. Looking at the storage, I think it's downloaded them when I listened to them, and I didn't click on the cloud download button, I only clicked on their name to stream them. When I try to erase the list of songs, it can't. Is this just like a history of what you have streamed, and how do you clear it if it becomes too large? I don't particularly want iCloud to download every track I click on to listen to.

Thanks.
 
What you assumed is correct, iTunes Match doesn't actually stream the content to your phone. It downloads the music files to your device from Apple's servers when you listen to them. That would be why they're showing up as being on your phone when connected to iTunes.
 
Ivan P said:
What you assumed is correct, iTunes Match doesn't actually stream the content to your phone. It downloads the music files to your device from Apple's servers when you listen to them. That would be why they're showing up as being on your phone when connected to iTunes.
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Yeah, I've misunderstood a little what iTunes Match does exactly. I get it now.

So how do I go about removing the songs I've downloaded/listened to while out and about, in case I want to begin the day with blank storage to download whatever tracks I fancy during the course of the day?

Thanks.
 
iTunes Match just popped up in the sidebar for me (UK). I can click subscribe and it asks me to sign up, but I don't want it so I dunno if it works :D
 
The only problem I've had is that it takes ages to upload 3 quarters through after 7 hours and while it's uploading it makes the whole internet connection so slow you can only upload while not at home or the internet would be completely unusable. It's nothing to do with upload/download speeds, I have one of the fastest connections available. It was only 200 songs however most were 1-2 hours each as they were recording of my sets.

Anyway upload almost finished.

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Mr. Gates said:
I wonder how long it would take for my music.

About 700 Gigs.

And Most of it is from Vinyl rips
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I doubt you will be allowed to use iTunes match as there is a limit of 25,000 songs. You have a lot of music I'm a DJ and I don't even have that much.
 
I have no issues with iTunes Match. If I rip a CD and add it to my library (I don't use iTunes to rip CDs), after at most 10 minutes later it will be matched or uploaded. I think iTunes Match rescans for changes every once in a while, and then matches the new chances. The first time it did take about 6 hours to match my library.

As with speeds I had no issues uploading at around 1.2MB/s which is the fastest my upload goes I believe. When I upload it never affects my download speeds.
 
brewno said:
They won't refund you - another dozen already tried. I asked for 1 day more of service to compensate the day it didn't work at all and they replied no.

I guess with Steve Jobs gone, the service from now on won't be as good.
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You've asked for one day of more service? Dude, that's too much effort. :eek::rolleyes:
 
macingman said:
The only problem I've had is that it takes ages to upload 3 quarters through after 7 hours and while it's uploading it makes the whole internet connection so slow you can only upload while not at home or the internet would be completely unusable. It's nothing to do with upload/download speeds, I have one of the fastest connections available. It was only 200 songs however most were 1-2 hours each as they were recording of my sets.
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Funny you should mention this. I have this exact issue, except it occurs when I backup my devices to iCloud. Any other time I upload anything my internet connection is fine, yet the moment I try and upload anything to iCloud my whole connection comes screeching to a halt.
 
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