As the title states, I want to purchase iTunes Match for the sole purpose of upgrading all my lower bitrate rips in my collection to the 256 kb versions in the iTunes Store. I do not want the streaming service that comes with it. I want to keep syncing my iOS devices and having them sync with my computer like normally.
I have also just performed a full iTunes back-up, just incase.
But I do have some questions though before I purchase:
1.) If the service scans my library and there are unmatched songs that should have been matched, can I force a re-scan of my library that will re-assess the unmatched versions to see if they can be re-matched? If not, I assume the only way to do this is to delete the songs entirely from iTunes Match and then re-import my back-up copies and then it'll re-scan them since they're "new" tracks?
2.) And if re-importing my back-up copies doesn't work, is there any way to help trick the matching process? What are the common reasons why songs don't get matched when they should be? Song length?
3.) Once I am satisfied with my newly upgraded music, can I just turn iTunes Match off and everything will be as if I never purchased iTunes Match? Until a day comes after I've imported new music that I turn it back on again, so it scans, then I turn it off again? Is this all okay?
Thank you!!
I have also just performed a full iTunes back-up, just incase.
But I do have some questions though before I purchase:
1.) If the service scans my library and there are unmatched songs that should have been matched, can I force a re-scan of my library that will re-assess the unmatched versions to see if they can be re-matched? If not, I assume the only way to do this is to delete the songs entirely from iTunes Match and then re-import my back-up copies and then it'll re-scan them since they're "new" tracks?
2.) And if re-importing my back-up copies doesn't work, is there any way to help trick the matching process? What are the common reasons why songs don't get matched when they should be? Song length?
3.) Once I am satisfied with my newly upgraded music, can I just turn iTunes Match off and everything will be as if I never purchased iTunes Match? Until a day comes after I've imported new music that I turn it back on again, so it scans, then I turn it off again? Is this all okay?
Thank you!!