Doesn't work for me
I also tried removing the offending songs and add some other ones, same thing, stuck at uploading forever
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iTunes Match Users Experiencing Issues Uploading Tracks
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Doesn't work for me
I also tried removing the offending songs and add some other ones, same thing, stuck at uploading forever
Happened to me too. Uploaded a track I recorded to iCloud and it wasn't available to download to my iPhone. Had to delete from iTunes, re-bounce from Logic and re-upload to iCloud.
Same here, I just re-organised my Eagles Collection becaause some albums are 4 discs, and got screwed up in itunes. After fixing it the stuck upload problem has started. Also I added two albums from my kids which may not be in the itunes library.
Either way I can access the eagles music in its new arrangement, but not the two kids albums via match.
Either way I can access the eagles music in its new arrangement, but not the two kids albums via match.
This may work for some people -- but 1) I've been having the reported problem for a long, long time, not just the past few days and 2) this procedure usually doesn't help at all.
iTunes Match has not operated smoothly for me in ages. It has been just as effective and error-free as Siri -- which is to say, maybe 60% of the time.
I'm almost to the limit, with over 23k songs, and of those a good ten thousand are not matched in the store. I sync with my Air, my Mini, my iPhone, iPad and through the Apple TV, and I've never had more than an intermittent drop in service, but none of the sorts of things so many others are reporting.
Well, I'll be... My problem was that iTunes Match was hanging on high res ALAC files, converted from FLACs. While I will have to go through and get rid of duplicate tracks it seems, Match is no longer hanging the way it was on those ALAC (96 kHz/24bit) files. MY library was re-matched and, notwithstanding having to delete a bunch of duplicates, the ALAC files are now Matched. Very curious.
I've been posting about this on the MR forums for months. I don't understand why the "add to iCloud" feature stopped working. Now you have to select "update iTunes Match" (which takes much longer) even you're just trying to match a single song. and even THAT has stopped working for me in the last week.
Also, the service is matching less and less lately. I just dropped a very popular song into my iTunes library (a song that is sitting in the iTunes 10 top) and the song failed to "match". it "uploaded" instead. so strange.
so odd. I've had my fair share of trouble with Match but nothing like this. for the most part its been a good service for me.
Also, the service is matching less and less lately. I just dropped a very popular song into my iTunes library (a song that is sitting in the iTunes 10 top) and the song failed to "match". it "uploaded" instead. so strange.
so odd. I've had my fair share of trouble with Match but nothing like this. for the most part its been a good service for me.
Issue Resolved
I was one of the users that was unable to upload tracks not listed in the iTunes Store beginning around June 9th. I have been trying all morning, and the issue seems to just have been resolved for me. I just uploaded an entire album of songs not in the iTunes Store. 4:48PM PST
I was one of the users that was unable to upload tracks not listed in the iTunes Store beginning around June 9th. I have been trying all morning, and the issue seems to just have been resolved for me. I just uploaded an entire album of songs not in the iTunes Store. 4:48PM PST
After the Apple's System Status page went green today, the previous issues I've mentioned with Match seem completely resolved now.
iTunes was able to finish updating matches. Some songs still showed an iCloud Status of "waiting" but restarting iTunes again showed that all songs had either been matched/uploaded.
So, this seems resolved for me.
iTunes was able to finish updating matches. Some songs still showed an iCloud Status of "waiting" but restarting iTunes again showed that all songs had either been matched/uploaded.
So, this seems resolved for me.
Well.......
Well at least I'm not alone in this.... I have the same issue, it will get almost to the end and then just sit there. Frustrating. And I seem to be getting duplicates each time I ask it to update so I've just stopped...
Hopefully Apple will fix soon
Well at least I'm not alone in this.... I have the same issue, it will get almost to the end and then just sit there. Frustrating. And I seem to be getting duplicates each time I ask it to update so I've just stopped...
Hopefully Apple will fix soon
That's a valid point. I still don't know how to explain all of the inconsistencies though. I must have at least 20 albums by popular artists that didn't match despite those albums being available on the iTunes Store.
Oh wow. I seriously thought I was alone in this issue. I didn't bother doing a google search since it worked so perfectly in the past. I ended up just buying the CD/album on iTunes instead of waiting for it to get matched; I was getting so frustrated. I wanted to have it on my iPhone via iTunes Match.
They finally tracked down the guy that manually updates the lights. He's the only one that knows the password.
I'm glad to see so many reactions here. I hate iTunes Match as well but assumed I was the only one. Twice it consumed my entire mobile data bundle on iOS 6. Turned out there was a bug that causes your songs to download over cellular even if you disabled that option.
I hope iTunes 12 returns as a lightweight media player and store without the iOS syncing stuff.
That's funny, it gave me an explicit version of my clean track.
Wait, just checked. Now I have 2 copies of this track. The one that says "(clean version)" in the title is explicit, and the one that says nothing is clean.
It never behaved in that way for me. Album explicits were often replaced with single cleans, tagging information was a mess, uploading was very sluggish and tracks would come and go on a daily basis.
The service itself is a good idea. Unfortunately when I used it (first year on release), it was very bugged out. So I stopped subscribing.
I found a way to solve problems! True, he Multiport and requires a lot of time, but it's at least some decision.
1. Settings in ITunes select import settings AAC.
2. Choosing composition in high resolution and in the context menu, select "Create a copy in the format AAC"
3. Remove composition in high resolution from the library and from the cloud (even though they are not there and downloaded ITunes but believes that they are there for some reason)
4. Updating ITunes Match, wait until the AAC track loaded into the cloud.
5. Remove composition AAC format (without removing it from the clouds)
6. Adding back into ITunes library ALAC composition in high resolution.
7. Again update ITunes Match (he now successfully match the composition already in the cloud with a composition in high resolution)
8. Rejoice life
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Ask apologies for my english, it's Google.
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Finally my sync/upload problems are resolved!
As suspected it was an Apple Cloud Services problem. Although this is working now, the iTunes client application needs a major overhaul.
I won't trust them enough for quite a long time to curate my other content and data.
As suspected it was an Apple Cloud Services problem. Although this is working now, the iTunes client application needs a major overhaul.
I won't trust them enough for quite a long time to curate my other content and data.
iTunes match really needs a rematch button, or at least something where we can type in metadata to help it along.
and maybe a "get metadata from iTunes store" button so we have a consistent collection?
and maybe a "get metadata from iTunes store" button so we have a consistent collection?
It's because their matching software just isn't that good. There's really no excuse for it not to do better, and no visible improvement in the years since the service first launched.