Q: Poor iTunes Match Matching
I have a music collection of about 10,000 songs, about 90% of which I ripped into iTunes from my CD collection. I subscribed to iTunes Match today and only about 1,000 of my songs were recognized. All of my tags and album art, etc. are present and up to date. Any ideas as to why?
I have to say I'm dissappointed with my experience with iTunes Match so far. I thought it would recognize the majority of my music instead of having to upload 9,000 songs.
Posted on Nov 14, 2011 2:07 PM
I have 13000+ songs
After step 2, it said it matched only 6500 or so songs
So at first I thought its uploading the other half. It isn't. Turn on a custom play list and choose Icloud status=upload and watch the play list. It is likely uploading custom artwork etc and has matched a lot more. You can watch it add to the playlist whenever it uploads a song.
I am currently at 11,000+ songs in step 3 and the play list shows only 200 uploaded. It's actually matching a lot more than initially indicated after step 2. Also, if you turn on the icloud columns in the different library views, you can see some that are in a "waiting" status. They either change to uploaded or matched as step 3 completes. I actually had another playlist where about half were in waiting and an hour later it showed "matched" for all the songs and this is during step 3.
I'm actually amazed at some of the stuff it ended up matching. The ones that didn't were usually older and lower quality files.
Posted on Nov 14, 2011 7:10 PM