Last night I decided to check myself, and can't even find an iTunes Match option in iTunes. Have I somehow updated to a version of iTunes that doesn't have it? Did I forget where to find it? Have I gone blonde?
Question on the yearly cost. They say it is $24.99 per year. So say I already did the iTunes Match for all my library in the first year and don't need it after that all since I will buy everything from iTunes from now on. Does that mean to keep my library the iTunes match uploaded in that first year, I have to keep paying the yearly fee or does it mean that if I wanted to upload more songs in the future with iTunes Match, I have to keep paying that $24.99 yearly fee?
Not true... that is only if you still want access to them with the iTunes Match service. But before your year is up you can download all matched tracks and they will be:You will have to continue to pay each year to maintain access to any song you upload (those not in iTunes) as well as those available in iTunes which you obtained elsewhere. Any song you got in iTunes will remain as part of the free service.
Well the nice thing about iTunes match is that it is essentially like getting all your tracks updated to iTunes plus for no extra charge. So if you were moving your non-iTunes plus tracks off of your iTunes computer because you didn't want them updated you don't have to worry about that. When you subscribe to iTunes match you can re-download those tracks and they will be in iTunes plus format (DRM free).Thanks, Michael, good to know. Guess that means my first order of business is downloading all the songs I have yet to upgrade to iTunes plus to another Mac.
Were those songs purchased through iTunes store? If so I can't imagine why they were not matched instantly.Here's a question. When using it last week for the first time it went through the scanning stage and began the upload stage. I noticed it was uploading some songs that were available in the iTunes store. What criteria is it using to "match" the songs in my library. Out of my +/-2000 songs it uploaded +/-500. That is way too many as my collection is mostly mainstream stuff.
Were those songs purchased through iTunes store? If so I can't imagine why they were not matched instantly.
Regardless I am hoping the next update improves the matching ability. Match was supposed to be using the same wave pattern recognition engine that is in the iTunes add-on Tuneup. But I have trialed TuneUp and it matched all the song I was able to try with the trial version. Yet some of those songs were not matched by iTunes Match. So it can and should do better.
Again, hoping the next update nails it. (Well it had better; only a few days left in October.)
Michael
Yes been down for me too since Thursday night. I had grown used to it too. I was hoping it would have been updated by yesterday but I guess it will be Monday hopefully with the public release of iTunes 10.7.1 and iTunes Match.No those weren't iTunes purchases (those were fine). They were 192k and good quality so I'm surprised that they weren't recognized. Match is down for me (error 4100) so hopefully they're working on the release for Monday.
Yes been down for me too since Thursday night. I had grown used to it too. I was hoping it would have been updated by yesterday but I guess it will be Monday hopefully with the public release of iTunes 10.7.1 and iTunes Match.
Michael
I have a question about itunes match. I heard that you still need to download files to your device. I have many many gigs of music, way too much to store all of it on my new 16 gig iphone4s. How much space do these downloads take up?