What about e-hana?
I've been using iTunes since 2002 (it was released in 2001). Early on I ripped many CDs including plenty that weren't initially in the iTunes store. For reasons long forgotten, my early rips were 192 kbps MP3 and tracks purchased on iTunes were 128 kbps AAC.
I saved a lot of time and money letting Match update those old tracks to 256 kbps AAC. That was easily worth $25 the first year.
The one thing that irks me about Match is the inconsistent matches to iTunes' catalog, particularly the Protected tracks I purchased on during iTunes' early years.
When iTunes Plus came along and we had the option of upgrading protected tracks to higher quality DRM-free, I didn't feel compelled to pay a second time for hundreds of tracks. Then Match came along and the conversion is included. Huzzah! But at the end of the process (and many retries) I still have 102 tracks that remain Protected 128 kbps AAC.
There are 48 tracks from 2003, the rest are from 2004-2008. The irony is that many of these tracks are favorites I'd been searching for and hadn't already acquired on CD. So the fact that they didn't get matched makes me a tiny bit sad.
A few of the tracks are no longer licensed to iTunes, so not much to be done about them. But the majority are in the catalog today --- same album, copyright, track number, length, etc. I've been too stingy to spend $100 to re-purchase them. Part of me keeps hoping Apple's algorithms will someday spot the gaps. I'm hoping for e-hana --- no track gets left behind, or forgotten.
What do you think; if I contact Apple with the list of unmatched Protected tracks, are they likely to correct the problem and make me a tiny bit happier?
I've been using iTunes since 2002 (it was released in 2001). Early on I ripped many CDs including plenty that weren't initially in the iTunes store. For reasons long forgotten, my early rips were 192 kbps MP3 and tracks purchased on iTunes were 128 kbps AAC.
I saved a lot of time and money letting Match update those old tracks to 256 kbps AAC. That was easily worth $25 the first year.
The one thing that irks me about Match is the inconsistent matches to iTunes' catalog, particularly the Protected tracks I purchased on during iTunes' early years.
When iTunes Plus came along and we had the option of upgrading protected tracks to higher quality DRM-free, I didn't feel compelled to pay a second time for hundreds of tracks. Then Match came along and the conversion is included. Huzzah! But at the end of the process (and many retries) I still have 102 tracks that remain Protected 128 kbps AAC.
There are 48 tracks from 2003, the rest are from 2004-2008. The irony is that many of these tracks are favorites I'd been searching for and hadn't already acquired on CD. So the fact that they didn't get matched makes me a tiny bit sad.
A few of the tracks are no longer licensed to iTunes, so not much to be done about them. But the majority are in the catalog today --- same album, copyright, track number, length, etc. I've been too stingy to spend $100 to re-purchase them. Part of me keeps hoping Apple's algorithms will someday spot the gaps. I'm hoping for e-hana --- no track gets left behind, or forgotten.
What do you think; if I contact Apple with the list of unmatched Protected tracks, are they likely to correct the problem and make me a tiny bit happier?
