Who here has subscribed to iTunes Match?

[verwon]

I have over 250G of music. Will they match all that and how many years would it take me to upload all that to the cloud at my slow dsl speed!

The limit is 25,000 songs and probably a long time!

 

[Wingscofounder]

@maclook: "Is there an easy way to do this or do you have to do every song manually?"

ck out this article on MacWorld: http://www.macworld.com/article/163620/2011/11/how_to_upgrade_tracks_to_itunes_match_fast.html

 

[mzd]

do genius playlists still work with Match?

 

[Shadowbech]

Not I. Not worth paying 25 bucks a year just to use this service. I find it useless as 1/2 of my songs are ripped from a cd or purchased from a different vendor that Itunes store doesn't even have.

 

[edk99]

I guess I can't sign up as I have 70,000+ songs. My only option is to create a new iTunes library and limit it to less then 25,000 songs.

I really wish you could pick and choose songs or artists to do the match on instead of the no option of ALL songs in you library.

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do genius playlists still work with Match?

Why wouldn't they? They are 2 different things and not related.

 

[SonoViva]

Not I. Not worth paying 25 bucks a year just to use this service. I find it useless as 1/2 of my songs are ripped from a cd or purchased from a different vendor that Itunes store doesn't even have.

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This is exactly what iTunes Match does; takes the stuff you haven't purchased on iTunes and makes it available to download anywhere. So anything they don't have on the store is uploaded.

 

[maclook]

@maclook: "Is there an easy way to do this or do you have to do every song manually?"

ck out this article on MacWorld: http://www.macworld.com/article/163620/2011/11/how_to_upgrade_tracks_to_itunes_match_fast.html

Thanks a bunch for that. Worked flawlessly.

 

[Daremo]

I guess I can't sign up as I have 70,000+ songs. My only option is to create a new iTunes library and limit it to less then 25,000 songs.

I really wish you could pick and choose songs or artists to do the match on instead of the no option of ALL songs in you library.

I'm in the exact same boat, with over 70,000 songs as well. I signed up for this a couple of months ago, during the beta through my developer account, and realizing this is not going to help me much... Most of my music is 320 AAC, so it would need to upload almost everything. Wishing I had saved the $25 bucks.

 

[kvizzel]

It doesn't replace it automatically. It keeps your old stuff by default and matches it with high quality files on the cloud.

You can manually delete your old stuff and redownload the new stuff to replace your old stuff.

Once you download the new stuff, it's yours, legal, and DRM free. You can use it on any MP3 player that plays AAC files. (That's a catch). iTunes will let you convert them to MP3 if you need to.

The over the cloud thing is overhyped. With metered data plans who is going to be streaming music? I guess you could, if you watched your data usage or are lucky enough to have an unlimited data plan. But if you can you can, and this seems to work very nice. I personally just plan to sync my iOS devices the old fashioned way.

Thank you!@

 

[JCCL]

I have 100 GB of music (aprox 15,000 songs). I think is great having access to all of them from the iPhone, been using it all day. Plus, converting most of them to 256 kbps aac is really great, as some of them were early rips with ****** encoders.

I still have around 4,000 songs to download in iTunes. Only thing I haven't liked so far is that iTunes has crashed twice while downloading / uploading songs. No problem in the iPhone whatsoever, just with my 3G provider which can be very slow at times.

 

[jwilcox09]

I did. Taking forever to sync my 20k+ songs though

 

[whiskeyvol]

Not me. I've been using audiogalaxy for a while now, and it's free.

 

[tremlock]

downloaded last night...seems pretty cool. converting all my 128kbs to 256kbs now

 

[Zcott]

Wish I could but it's not in the UK yet :-(

 

[urkel]

It doesn't replace it automatically. It keeps your old stuff by default and matches it with high quality files on the cloud.

You can manually delete your old stuff and redownload the new stuff to replace your old stuff.

Once you download the new stuff, it's yours, legal, and DRM free. You can use it on any MP3 player that plays AAC files. (That's a catch). iTunes will let you convert them to MP3 if you need to.

How exactly does the whole delete/redownload thing work? When I click on the ghosted out file names with the download cloud next to it then nothing happens. And Ive deleted files with a cloud next to it but when I go to the store it charges me so obviously Im doing something(s) wrong.

Im not slamming iTMM (yet) but it seems that it fits right along iCloud in being very useful but not nearly as simple as Apple users are used to. (I own CD's for almost all my music but half still werent recognized)

 

[iTorment]

Me. I followed the advice on a site and deleted all my matched songs, and redownloaded them onto my MacBook Air. This gave me 256kbps clean copies. I had some really old copies I ripped years ago when MP3 rippers were not as good as today. So far so good. I am digging this.

Are the "clean" copies the iTunes version? To be more precise, is it like songs bought from iTunes with all the metadata and iTunes specific information such as the Recording company, release Date, are they the files like if one would have bought them from iTunes?

I have Amazon Cloud which offers unlimited music storage and streaming. If you can anaswer that question for me, I will migrate to Match.

 

[kas23]

I'm not signing up for this. It was cool when we first heard about it, then I got a 64 gb iPhone. I can locally store all the music I will ever neat to listen to. As for upgrading the quality of my tracks, most of my music is already 320 Kbps.

Am I missing any other benefits of this service? Seems like its just a reason for fans to give Apple money. Amazing.