iTunes Match is live...

Rameses · 17 Dec 2011 at 13:44

mrbell1984 said:
I think you need to enable iTunes match in settings, music.

Cheers!

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:01

I just purchased it.

Worth the £21.99 a year for sure.

Vertigo · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:20

rctneil said:
I have created a smart playlist which shows all songs it has uploaded.

It has uploaded a ton of music I expected it to have matched.

eg: 1 track from Now 80 has been uploaded rather than matched like all the other songs on Now 80.

How can I get this to be resolved?

Never thought of doing that, nice trick!

Getting much the same, about 15% of my tracks have had to be uploaded. Looks like their matching algorithms need a bit of work.

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:25

Before doing the match what I have been doing is doing a search in iTunes to see if it exists.

Sorting albums into sections where I know it will match. Works a treat.

Feek · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:33

This is very strange, it's uploading stuff which I have at 128k but which is definitely on the iTunes store. Should that be happening?

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:36

Feek said:
This is very strange, it's uploading stuff which I have at 128k but which is definitely on the iTunes store. Should that be happening?

Don't think so. It should be picking music up no problems. I guess theres teething problems?

rctneil · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:38

As I said in my post, the same is happening to me too. Loads of tracks being uploaded which it should have matched.

Shadowness · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:44

Or are they uploaded?

If you reveal the iCloud status column, it only says a few tracks are uploaded. 90% says matched, but I'm still waiting for iTunes to finish 'uploading' more tracks.

Maybe 'uploading' just means matching?

I certainly haven't uploaded 7k songs, as I've only used 1GB outbound bandwidth since this morning (doing other things too).

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:48

Quite possibly.

Feek · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:50

I'm just going to leave it doing what it wants to until it finishes and then see what it's done.

/edit - How do I see the 'iCloud status column'?

/edit again - Got it, it's just another column in the view mode

Shadowness · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:53

In your main music library list, right click on the column headers to bring up more options, then select it

I've only just realised that the cloud icon means 'waiting', it doesn't indicate that song is in the cloud.

rctneil · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:08

One useful thing you can do is create a couple of smart playlists.

I have a few to help me see the status of different iCloud things:

- Tracks which have been uploaded - (so i can check tracks which should have been matched but were not

- Tracks with errors

- ineligible tracks

and so on,

Smart playlists are very powerful and help you see a lot of information very quickly.

Feek · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:13

I just found a good guide for getting lower quality music updated using a smart playlist. It needs Match to have finished doing the initial steps but it makes perfect sense.

http://www.macworld.com/article/163620/2011/11/how_to_upgrade_tracks_to_itunes_match_fast.html

Rameses · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:26

Feek said:
I just found a good guide for getting lower quality music updated using a smart playlist. It needs Match to have finished doing the initial steps but it makes perfect sense.

http://www.macworld.com/article/163620/2011/11/how_to_upgrade_tracks_to_itunes_match_fast.html

Hmmmm might try this!

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Dec 2011 at 15:30

It works fine, I deleted albums from my system but because it's in the cloud you can download them again at a higher bit rate free.

It'a awesome how fast it syncs over all devices!

I do believe you can have up to 5 iDevices with iTunes Match enabled logged into the same iTunes ID Account.

Awesome.

Feek · 18 Dec 2011 at 18:24

My initial stage still isn't complete, I reckon it's going to take a week to upload everything.

Shadowness · 18 Dec 2011 at 18:27

Yep, still going strong here too. Another 1500 songs to upload

Vertigo · 18 Dec 2011 at 18:33

Feek said:
I just found a good guide for getting lower quality music updated using a smart playlist. It needs Match to have finished doing the initial steps but it makes perfect sense.

http://www.macworld.com/article/163620/2011/11/how_to_upgrade_tracks_to_itunes_match_fast.html

Interesting but surely anything purchased from iTunes will already be decent quality? I presume you could use it to exchange low-bitrate MP3 files for decent rate AAC files from iTunes instead.

Feek · 18 Dec 2011 at 19:06

Yes, that's the point. I've got loads of old MP3s that I ripped a long time ago which are all 128k so it can't hurt to get them upgraded to a better quality.

Deleted member 77746 · 18 Dec 2011 at 20:12

Feek said:
Yes, that's the point. I've got loads of old MP3s that I ripped a long time ago which are all 128k so it can't hurt to get them upgraded to a better quality.

The files come down as .M4A