muselnor

Q: Why are songs uploaded instead of matched when I can find them in the itunes store

Having just signed up to iTunes Match half of my songs are being displayed as uploaded instead of matched? these are mainstream artists songs that I have no problem finding in the iTunes store. I kept my music well organized in terms of album names etc. so it should have no problem matching these songs. Is there any reason for this or better yet is there a way to re-scan the songs? Would appreciate if anyone could help.

 

Thanks in advance!

MacBook Pro, iOS 9.1

Posted on Jun 12, 2016 2:59 AM

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Q: Why are songs uploaded instead of matched when I can find them in the itunes store

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  • by Esquared,Helpful

    Esquared Esquared Jun 12, 2016 3:16 AM in response to muselnor
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    Jun 12, 2016 3:16 AM in response to muselnor

    You should get better results than that. In my experience, about 85 percent of main stream music gets matched. A much lower percentage could mean that the quality of the originals isn't very good, which happens a lot with vinyl source material. Do the tracks that don't get matched have anything in common?

  • by muselnor,

    muselnor muselnor Jun 12, 2016 3:19 AM in response to Esquared
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    Jun 12, 2016 3:19 AM in response to Esquared

    i have about 60% of my music matched. 5000+ songs its pretty frustrating. they dont have anything in common at all and pretty much 9/10 songs I search are in the itunes store. Hopefully Apple look into this and add a rescan matches option or something. Some of the songs are even from a same album that half was matched and the other half were uploaded?

  • by Jimzgoldfinch,

    Jimzgoldfinch Jimzgoldfinch Jun 12, 2016 4:52 AM in response to muselnor
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    Jun 12, 2016 4:52 AM in response to muselnor

    Hi,

    I agree with Esquared. I have around 15% that have uploaded. The main reason is usually that the tracks have never appeared in digital format or the tracks were ripped from vinyl. I have a small number that I expected to match but didn't. See this user tip iTunes Match User Tips (May 2016)

     

    What is the source and quality of the music that has been uploaded?

     

    Jim

  • by muselnor,

    muselnor muselnor Jun 14, 2016 12:46 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinch
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    Jun 14, 2016 12:46 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

    Thanks for your reply. the quality varies 192, 320, 128 none of the songs were on vinyl all pretty recent mainstream music which I can easily find on itunes so still cant get my head around this

  • by Esquared,

    Esquared Esquared Jun 14, 2016 12:57 AM in response to muselnor
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    Jun 14, 2016 12:57 AM in response to muselnor

    What is/are the source(s) of these tracks? If you downloaded them from somewhere, how can you be sure the source wasn't vinyl?