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In iOS 6, iTunes Match Actually Supports Both Streaming and Downloading of Music
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I don't understand why you being downvoted! I sold my iPhone 4 after a year and only £68 less then i bought it for, on ebay. I got the new 4s and thats for £68 more. Even an iPhone full of scraches and marks can be recycled for nearly as much as the half of the original price. My iPhone 4s goes on ebay a week before Apple announces the new iPhone. I definitely don't mind paying a little to have the latest.
And what model phone do you think the person who is buying your iPhone4 ends up with aye?
somebody who wasn't smart enough to do their research before they bought it
You are one hundred percent right. This is completely un true. I also tested this on my iOS 6 beta iphone and sure, it doesn't show the cloud icons that let you know its downloading, but sure enough, after you listen to it you can swipe over that song and the delete button appears. This doesn't appear for songs you haven't "streamed" yet. And in the music app in the usage section of settings, there is indeed data there, from the song you downloaded. Hopefully in one of the later betas they actually have real streaming.
I’m sure that you have had some other responses already, but you are wrong. It does indeed stream as I've just tested it myself.
And to those of you who think that the tracks are being deleted when you turn match off. While anything is possible, what would be the point of Apple doing that? They are your own tracks that you own and the whole point of downloading them would be to able to keep them on your device. Just arbitrarily deleting them en masse when you turn match off would pointless and annoying and counter to the whole point of having your tracks in the cloud. I'm not buying it.
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AWESOME! Then I'll finally sign up for Match. Don't have room on my iphone to store much music, but if I can stream it...
I'm glad your excited for streaming, but I think you would have been fine without it.
Currently, iTunes Match would add and remove music as you downloaded when you needed more room. If you only had, say, a gig available, it would basically use that gig to cache music. When you played something you didn't currently have, it would just make room for it by removing something else.
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Pretty sure there's a setting that will resolve that:
In the Music section of settings in iOS, it's called "Show All Music." You want that turned to "On."
(At least on the device itself; can't really say if you're syncing it to a car head unit, which might make my entire point moot, requiring me to go shut up somewhere
)I'm glad your excited for streaming, but I think you would have been fine without it.
Currently, iTunes Match would add and remove music as you downloaded when you needed more room. If you only had, say, a gig available, it would basically use that gig to cache music. When you played something you didn't currently have, it would just make room for it by removing something else.
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Pretty sure there's a setting that will resolve that:
In the Music section of settings in iOS, it's called "Show All Music." You want that turned to "On."
(At least on the device itself; can't really say if you're syncing it to a car head unit, which might make my entire point moot, requiring me to go shut up somewhere
I actually have the same issue with my head unit as well. I think it has to do with the head unit being compatible with itunes match. I think we're out of luck.
A lot of iPhone music apps also don't recognize "matched" (but not downloaded) songs as well...
I'm not sure this is true. I set up match and had no songs on the phone. I played an entire album and the available space on my phone dropped. Then I enabled Airplane mode and reopened the music app. The only Album showing was the one that I had played and it would still play with no access to the net. So it may be streaming, but if it is, it's streaming and downloading.
In my tests it works pretty much the same as IOS 5 except it does not display icon to indicate if the song has been downloaded or not (it used to have a cloud beside songs not loaded to device).
Previous IOS 5, as with IOS 6, it starts playing the song as soon as it can after selection. In other words, after you select a song from icloud, it starts playing while it continues to download the rest of it in the background. Some may confuse this with streaming but it is not. Subsequent plays of the same song are instant because the track is already loaded to the IOS device and no download occurs (unless you delete it).
To further prove my point try this... play some songs and then turn on Airplane mode. You will then see only the songs that you have previously played/downloaded. This is NOT streaming. The songs do not get re-downloaded every time you play them.
It is possible that Apple is testing some accounts for streaming vs. downloading, or maybe only in US? I am in Canada.
Previous IOS 5, as with IOS 6, it starts playing the song as soon as it can after selection. In other words, after you select a song from icloud, it starts playing while it continues to download the rest of it in the background. Some may confuse this with streaming but it is not. Subsequent plays of the same song are instant because the track is already loaded to the IOS device and no download occurs (unless you delete it).
To further prove my point try this... play some songs and then turn on Airplane mode. You will then see only the songs that you have previously played/downloaded. This is NOT streaming. The songs do not get re-downloaded every time you play them.
It is possible that Apple is testing some accounts for streaming vs. downloading, or maybe only in US? I am in Canada.
Apple is most likely testing a few things.
On my iphone running ios6. Any track I play gets downloaded as orgiinally intended with the service. After I turn off itunes match the music I played is still there and I have to delete it.
On my wifes iphone. Music played is downloaded but when I turn off itunes match the music downloaded/listened to is wiped.
Apple may be trying to improve the hybrid streaming/downloading method.
By the way outr of 6 iphones I tested. 4 behaved like mine. And 2 behaved like my wifes.
On my iphone running ios6. Any track I play gets downloaded as orgiinally intended with the service. After I turn off itunes match the music I played is still there and I have to delete it.
On my wifes iphone. Music played is downloaded but when I turn off itunes match the music downloaded/listened to is wiped.
Apple may be trying to improve the hybrid streaming/downloading method.
By the way outr of 6 iphones I tested. 4 behaved like mine. And 2 behaved like my wifes.
I agree on the uncompressed music.... and hope it will come in the near future. Although I rarely buy music from iTunes I have bought some--and downloaded a ton of "free for day" tracks. It was nice that anything pre-iTunes plus format has now been upgraded. I am hoping the same happens with lossless.
It's been more than a quarter of a century since the release of the CD and it is a shame that your typical music sold today is of less quality.
Michael
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Never does for me unless I intentionally choose to download, or click the cloud icon to download it. Otherwise it just streams--and it always has (been using iTunes Match since it first went into beta).
Mike
Thanks for agreeing! It is true, but some members of this forum are disputed that it downloads songs still...the swines!
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I am sorry but I believe I am correct still, but do this simple test for me...
Turn off iTunes Match (it doesn't matter what device you use)
Make sure there is "no data" in the usage area of settings app. (General, Usage, Music,,,,no data)
Turn on iTunes Match (let it load a bit or fully, you decide)
Go to an album and play the first 5 songs then pause or stop the music
Go back to settings and look at "about" and you will see it says you have 5 songs (or 6 if you let the next track start playing for a few seconds).
Go to "usage" and you will see it shows data for music (approx 50MB for 5 songs give or take)
Turn off iTunes Match and the songs you just played will be there still. (in the music app and the settings "about" or "usage"
If you plug into iTunes itself and click the triangle where it says iPad (eg) and it will show you music, books, tones etc...the songs you played will be there too.
This shouldn't happen if it's stream only. I still think the cloud icons have just been removed and maybe they will return. This is how it works on my devices, but as it's a iOS beta results could vary,,,who knows!
Just reading some other responses: I agree, if it downloads, it is not streaming. Google Play streams....takes up no data at all on your device except song metadata) and it does not download at all.
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I'd really enjoy a tiered pricing system for users that want to sign up for Match with over 25,000 songs in their music library.
It doesn't work in my car in ios 6.
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I hope they fix this soon, I don't know if I'm gonna re-subscribe.
Or the "this item cannot be downloaded at this time" issue.
These are deal breakers. I won't resubscribe until this BS is fixed.
Thank you...
You are correct sir. The music still downloads. You can see the size in "settings > usage" increase as you play more and more songs. Also, if you disconnect from any wifi or 3g/4g, you can still play the tracks. It's downloading them still. Period. They removed the icons - pure and simple.
You are correct sir. The music still downloads. You can see the size in "settings > usage" increase as you play more and more songs. Also, if you disconnect from any wifi or 3g/4g, you can still play the tracks. It's downloading them still. Period. They removed the icons - pure and simple.
Unfortunately, six months after it was launched, iTunes Match still has many bugs concerning metadata like ratings, cover art, and play counts. Check this thread in Apple's support forums:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3495653
The play count bug really, er, bugs me as most of my iPod playlists are based on play count.
