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iTunes Match Goes Live Internationally (For Real This Time)

Two iTunes accounts problem sorted yet?

I am constantly frustrated when trying to download purchased songs from iTunes on my 4s and iPad, as it gives me the 'your iPad/4S can only be associated with one ID every 90 days' nonsense. Good grief, I have paid for the music, I should be able to download it to my devices as I like!
Any advice?
 
iTunes update

The last software update says this in Norway. Update includes iTunes Match and iTunes in the cloud.

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iTunes is now repeatedly crashing when trying to go through the Match process(Match database corrupt maybe?), apart having to go through and build up a new library is there anything I can do to just wipe the Match database and start again?
 
Wondering, I have a lot of Country music that isn't in the UK iTunes Store - does Match only 'match' songs with your ID's store, or a 'worldwide catalogue'?

I know they'd just upload anyway, but it'd be nice (and quicker) if they didn't have to :)

I saw somebody else ask this question somewhere else and there wasn't any replies. :)
Thanks!
 
iPaddy said:
Just paid for match and it's apparently matched 1407 songs out of 2000.
I'm not 100% sure on the concept of match, but those 1407 songs have been upgraded to a higher bitrate?
Should the song title change too? For example, I have Jay Z and the Verve Bittersweet Symphony saved as just 'The Verve' which iTunes has matched, should it have changed the title to include Jay Z?
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No, it shouldn't. All the metadata (artist, song title, album, artwork) stays unchanged and is actually uploaded, so your library will stay the same.

Imagine you ripped a CD of some rare artist, and iTunes doesn't have that CD, but only some "best of" album with four of your songs. These four songs would be matched. You wouldn't want them to change the album title to "best of" for these four songs, right?

There was always a problem with iTunes that if you had two completely different albums that happened to have the same title by coincidence, and sorted by album, these albums would be mixed. I fixed that by adding for example an option-space character at the end of one album title. I wouldn't want that changed either.
 
how does it work??

I still did not figure out how this works, I can not find it in Luxembourg, iTunes .

-But If I sign up, will it recognize all my computers?
If I add music from cd or rip during the year will iCloud upgrade those songs? I have like 300 CDs but lazy to put them all in iTunes.

Any tutorials?
 
Based in the UK, spent a couple of hours trimming my library down from 31,000 songs to just under 25,000.

Of that 25,000 around 7,000 weren't on the system (I have wide ranging musical interests). When I left the house this morning around 5,000 were complete after being left overnight, checking on my iphone now and there don't appear to be any missing from the list now. I do have a decent broadband connection, but still impressed with the speed this has happended.

Big win for me on first impressions, should drive down the cost of my next iphone as drive space won't be as important.
 
10,000 tracks. 1,000 matched. 9,000 to upload.

I can find the unmatched albums in the iTunes store.

Seems a poor performance compared with what some have reported.

Update: I may have been too hasty - most of what it appears to be uploading is artwork. iTunes upload an image, nothing else, then the music is available on the iPhone. Perhaps it has matched the music but doesn't count it until the image is updated too. I don't know, either way, the 'upload' part of the process is flying through at the moment.

Update 2: Yes, actually around 4,000 tracks did not need uploading in full, but did need cover artwork uploaded. A large part of the rest consisted of several dozen embarrassing Ministry of Sound mix compilations from ten years ago (mixed tracks = no match). I've removed them, and the match rate has shot up. My impression of Match is getting better and better - especially as I used it properly for the first time last night while out and about with my iPhone.
 
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Yeah I'm thinking it's not worth it. Thanks.

ipedro said:
iTunes Match isn't for you.

If most of your music is available on iTunes but you got it first on CD and ripped it or attained your music via other ways, then iTunes Match was designed for you. If most of your music is stuff that you can't find anywhere else, I think you're better off carrying around an iPod Classic.
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tarasis said:
I heard, but have never confirmed, that the US store requires you to have a US CC on file to signup for Match, rather than using Giftcard balance. True?
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In Australia it required me to enter my CC but then used my giftcard balance to pay for it.

kirky29 said:
Wondering, I have a lot of Country music that isn't in the UK iTunes Store - does Match only 'match' songs with your ID's store, or a 'worldwide catalogue'?
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Interestingly for me, I originally created an iTunes account when Apple did that first Pepsi promotion in the US. A free code was all I needed to start downloading free songs each week and occasionally TV Shows.

I then moved to the Australian store, but was never able to upgrade my DRM-protected songs I’d downloaded legally from the US as they weren’t in the Australian catalogue… however those songs have now been matched as of today, so I would think it looks at a worldwide catalogue, but I suppose I’ll need to delete the song and see what it downloads as - protected or high quality.

leehal said:
Based in the UK, spent a couple of hours trimming my library down from 31,000 songs to just under 25,000.

Of that 25,000 around 7,000 weren't on the system (I have wide ranging musical interests). When I left the house this morning around 5,000 were complete after being left overnight, checking on my iphone now and there don't appear to be any missing from the list now. I do have a decent broadband connection, but still impressed with the speed this has happended.

Big win for me on first impressions, should drive down the cost of my next iphone as drive space won't be as important.
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I was thinking similarly, and with iTunes Match for music and Photo Stream for photos, I might just go back to a desktop hidden away and just rely on an iPad + iPhone!

Do hope they increase the allowable size at some point though.
 
Svennemo said:
Sadly no iTunes match in the quick links menu in the installed update.
Com`on Apple! NORWAY needs this to!!!
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You got this today? Is there iTunes in the cloud then? As in you can download older purchases made with another computer?
 
How does matching work??

Acoustic fingerprint??

or only ID3 TAGS of mp3???


if it is only tags it is very poor matching.....
 
IamZoso said:
To participate in iTunes Match, your library must contain no more than 25,000 songs that were not purchased from the iTunes Store.
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Seriously, have people read none of the many threads over the last few months about Match?

"Hey, it's not really streaming" comment in 3..2..1..

AdeFowler said:
Is this new? I thought protected tracks were converted :confused:
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Agreed, as long as protected tracks from other accounts are authorized on that mac they should be matched or uploaded. Does the exception for protected tracks bought in other countries stores come from Apple's website or personal experience? Has anyone else tested that, and do they work or give an error?

harrisondavies said:
What advantage does this have over my ripping my own 256k songs from CD and transferring to iPhone?
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Access on the road to any files not on your phone.
 
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Works fantastically here in the UK. Knowing that I have "all of my music" on my iPhone is pretty cool. I also like the fact that my music library is now backed up to Apple.

I'm sure the non-purchased limit (ie. 25,000 tracks) will be increased over time.
 
iTunes Match Streaming

Two quick questions - I thought you were able stream tracks without actually downloading them onto the device (as a 'permanent' download) but that doesn't seem to be the case.

1. Is it possible to stream tracks using iTunes Match (in the sense that the track gets cached but not kept as a download)?

2. If not, is there a way to delete the downloaded tracks in bulk? I tried by looking at the Recently Played playlist but it seems I can't delete the tracks from there... is there another way?

Thanks!
 
emulajavi said:
How does matching work??

Acoustic fingerprint??

or only ID3 TAGS of mp3???
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From what people have figured out, seems like acoustic fingerprint only, tags make no difference (which is a shame, they'd match many more and be more accurate if they looked at tags as well).
 
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