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iTunes Match Launching in New Countries Including Austria, Greece, and Italy
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I was fairly skeptical of this service, but am now along your line of thinking. Seems like an easy way to listen on my iPhone, Macbook and (soon) iPad without duplicating and taking up space on each device.
Error in Italian Translation
It's fun that in the Italian copy they wrote "DRM-Gratis" (drm-free with free as in beer) instead of "Senza DRM" (which would be DRM-free with free as in fat-free).
It's not the first time Apple Italy comes out with subpar copies.
It's fun that in the Italian copy they wrote "DRM-Gratis" (drm-free with free as in beer) instead of "Senza DRM" (which would be DRM-free with free as in fat-free).
It's not the first time Apple Italy comes out with subpar copies.
I would love match if it weren't for the inconsistent service. I, too have partial albums that show as uploads instead of matched (annoying, but livable).
But the worst part is that, even though my playlists are always completely downloaded I often get songs that fail to play on when I lose my cell signal. I have had it eventually corrupt my whole playlist over the course of two or three days riding to work. I've gone through the exercise of deleting all songs in the playlists off my iphone, and re-downloading each of them manually. Two or three days later, viola, the problem starts again.
Had a ticket open with Apple for three weeks on the issue. Gave them all of the information they wanted. The engineer eventually threw up his hands and offered my money back for my Match subscription. Definitely un-Apple like.
But the worst part is that, even though my playlists are always completely downloaded I often get songs that fail to play on when I lose my cell signal. I have had it eventually corrupt my whole playlist over the course of two or three days riding to work. I've gone through the exercise of deleting all songs in the playlists off my iphone, and re-downloading each of them manually. Two or three days later, viola, the problem starts again.
Had a ticket open with Apple for three weeks on the issue. Gave them all of the information they wanted. The engineer eventually threw up his hands and offered my money back for my Match subscription. Definitely un-Apple like.
Still got no "purchased" button on my iOS devices in the itunes store. So unable to redownload already purchased music! Anyone else in Austria?
A while back, someone said on this forum that "fanboys will be the one who'll kill Apple".
He was right.
Apple is releasing clearly broken products like iTunes Match and too many people find way to praise it. Lion is the less downloaded and most criticized update yet but people find ways to pretend they are happy with it. Moutain Lion brings almost nothing new but a lot of security add-on (Apple Security Essentials, OS X Logo testing, OS X Malicious Software Removal Tool, OS X Security Center, OS X Defender...yes, you can verify) and people find ways to prend it's going to be so cool.
Of course I understand when it's latecomers from the mass sheep market who just discovered Apple, but sometimes even people who have been knowing Apple for 4 years or more seems to blind. Well some of them are paid by Apple to tell community manager ********, but for the other, they are going to be the cause of Apple failure.
He was right.
Apple is releasing clearly broken products like iTunes Match and too many people find way to praise it. Lion is the less downloaded and most criticized update yet but people find ways to pretend they are happy with it. Moutain Lion brings almost nothing new but a lot of security add-on (Apple Security Essentials, OS X Logo testing, OS X Malicious Software Removal Tool, OS X Security Center, OS X Defender...yes, you can verify) and people find ways to prend it's going to be so cool.
Of course I understand when it's latecomers from the mass sheep market who just discovered Apple, but sometimes even people who have been knowing Apple for 4 years or more seems to blind. Well some of them are paid by Apple to tell community manager ********, but for the other, they are going to be the cause of Apple failure.
I agree with your sentiment, Lion is buggy, iTunes match won't sync the playlists I use the most, and some iOS applications are so limited they're almost useless (file management, mainly), I feel we are losing the Apple we lovedif we haven't lost them already.
The iPhone changed everything for them, IMHO.
iTunes Match - Greece
I have not purchased iTunes Match for my Greek iTunes account yet, but when I try to re-download my purchased music that is not present in my computer I receive the following error: "This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later".
I have not purchased iTunes Match for my Greek iTunes account yet, but when I try to re-download my purchased music that is not present in my computer I receive the following error: "This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later".
Strange... I'm in the Atl area too and haven't had the same issues... Admittedly I don't use my phone often to stream music.
Yeah, the whole of Scandinavia seems left out still. We are sorry for starting Spotify, but don't hate us like this
Lol good point
For me, iTunes match is slow, battery consuming, and half as efficient as Pandora, not to mention I can eat through data faster than watching Netflix on my iPhone using match. It works great for my Apple TV, but thats it. I think iTunes match wasnt ready for primetime just yet IMO
Considering the increased number of Apple-users, and thus presenting hackers with a more interesting platform to hack(which can be seen on the increasing number of hacking done to Macs), I think it's excellent that they're focusing on security.
While "old-school" Mac-users may believe that their precious Macs are non-hackable, I am very happy that they are finally releasing some security applications to fend of the hackers.
I also believe that with the increased numbers of hackers turning their focus to Apple, that we will not be as secure as we were before.