Unmatched songs - lossless

[bp1000]

Im about to enable match but wondered if there are any solutions to this.

90% of my library is in ALAC lossless format and anything that doesn't match is easily 40-50mb per song which will take ages to upload.

Can anyone think of a solution to this apart from waiting. Perhaps create a aac version of the library?

 

[Julien]

Im about to enable match but wondered if there are any solutions to this.

90% of my library is in ALAC lossless format and anything that doesn't match is easily 40-50mb per song which will take ages to upload.

Can anyone think of a solution to this apart from waiting. Perhaps create a aac version of the library?

Match doesn't upload ALAC but converts to AAC for the upload.

 

[longsong]

Yes, that's right. iTunes creates an AAC 256 version of your lossless files before uploading to the cloud. There's no need for you to manually create an AAC version.

 

[bp1000]

Awesome thanks

I assume it doesn't overwrite the ALAC, it just does this for the purpose of upload and then deletes?

 

[longsong]

Yes, exactly. The AAC 256 is uploaded to the cloud and the lossless file remains on your hard drive (as long as you don't delete it).

 

[bp1000]

Thank you