iTunes Match Frustration

allosunshine · 8 Jan 2012 at 12:40

I think iTunes Match is ace but its so bloody frustrating. How can it match near enough a whole album bar one track, especially as the whole album can be bought from the iTunes store.
I've tried burning the album as a virtual CD and then reimporting to iTunes but its still the same.

Anyone else have any other suggestions?

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Jan 2012 at 13:00

Try editing the info in the song to match the rest. It worked on a number of mine.

kd

allosunshine · 8 Jan 2012 at 14:33

mrbell1984 said:
Try editing the info in the song to match the rest. It worked on a number of mine.

kd

What info did you change?

I've tried using tagging software plus when it was imported from the virtual CD into iTunes the info came from iTunes so there shouldn't be a need for me to change anything.
I wouldn't know what to change anyway because it should be right from iTunes.

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Jan 2012 at 14:46

I ensured the title and album artist / album was correct.

Xee · 8 Jan 2012 at 14:46

Use iTunes to make sure that the one track is the same as the rest of the Album. Like artist, album artist etc etc - I think this is what the mrbell1984 means. Maybe compare against the album on iTunes store, maybe its changed?

allosunshine · 8 Jan 2012 at 14:58

I did this as sort of prep for iTunes Match and I've gone through after the initial Match and updating tags for everything that wasn't matched. Its so bloody annoying.

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Jan 2012 at 15:31

allosunshine said:
I did this as sort of prep for iTunes Match and I've gone through after the initial Match and updating tags for everything that wasn't matched. Its so bloody annoying.

It is but theres nothing you can do.

Skyboat · 8 Jan 2012 at 15:45

Check the length of your track compared with the closest match you can find on the iTunes Store. If yours is shorter by any notable amount then it's very likely it won't match.

allosunshine · 8 Jan 2012 at 18:36

Just checked the length of the track, was a couple of seconds longer, cut it to what the iTunes store said but still the same. How can Apple be so brilliant but then so dumb.

Deleted member 77746 · 8 Jan 2012 at 19:01

Was it ripped from a CD to start with?

allosunshine · 8 Jan 2012 at 19:27

mrbell1984 said:
Was it ripped from a CD to start with?

No

FreeStream · 9 Jan 2012 at 11:39

allosunshine said:
Just checked the length of the track, was a couple of seconds longer, cut it to what the iTunes store said but still the same. How can Apple be so brilliant but then so dumb.

To be fair, it isn't going to perfect is it.

I mean I've been using tagging software and that when that thinks it's 99% sure it's actually picked the wrong song.

Would you rather it be safe and make sure it's the correct song or get it wrong?