iTunes Match with more than 25,000 songs

Put my two cents in earlier this evening and submitted feedback via the form above. I encourage others to do the same.

Apple takes pride in being a creative and media-focused company so it's time to stop treating serious cloud music subscribers as though they are teeny-boppers who are just starting to build up their music collection. Music is central to my personal and professional life and I need a solution that can keep up.

With the recent acquisition of Beats and the announcement of OS X Yosemite, I'm hopeful that they step up their game and bring iTunes Match in line with Amazon at the very least. If not, I will drop iTunes Match with a quickness as soon as my subscription expires.

Thank you for letting me know, I finished submitting my comments just now, thanks man.

I don't know why but I missed your suggestions, I've just finished submitting my comments on iTunes, thank you for the heads up :-)

Apple may have blown it by not doing something about this sooner... Amazon recently announced Prime Music, that not only gets Prime customers free access to "over a million songs and hundreds of playlists", but for just $24.95/year will let you import your existing music, get this, for up to 250,000 songs!!! There've been some big song counts posted in this long-running thread, but I don't think anyone has approached that limit. I guess if you're not a Prime subscriber, this becomes $79 + $25 = $104/year, which is still not bad for such a huge limit, but if you're already a Prime subscriber, this is pretty much a no brainer. Amazon Prime Music here I come. Too bad, as I'd have preferred to keep it in the Apple/iTunes/MacOSX/iOS ecosystem, but I've been wanting to push all my music to the cloud for a long, long time now, and finally there's a way to do it at an acceptable cost. You blew this one Apple.

I would definitely pay more $$$ for this option!!!

Apple lost me on this one, too. I have switched to Plex. Not only does it stream more reliably, but I can stream movies, TV shows, audiobooks, basically everything. No limits. Free. Kind of a no-brainer if you have a machine that's always on to act as a server. May even kick the AppleTV to the curb in favor of a Chromecast.

Thanks for mentioning Plex. I'd fiddled with it a long time ago but either it wasn't full-featured then or I didn't realize what it was capable of. I installed it tonight, and am blown away by the fact that I suddenly have my entire music library available for streaming. The app for iPhone cost $4.99, and now I have all my music anytime I've got WiFi or cell service. I already had a Mac that was on the net full time with a static IP address, so this was pretty convenient.

I will say, Plex isn't without its problems. I had to trash preferences and application support files to get it to work at all. I'll probably never be able to use it for the TV shows I have on disk because I've used a different naming convention than the one and only naming convention Plex supports. Plex provides no way to turn subtitles on or off manually that I could discover. Plex won't play any of my iTunes videos; it just animates its little busy circle forever. Most annoyingly, since I primarily want it for music, it won't shuffle my playlists, nor will it let me slide the progress bar ahead in time, and most times I tap next it brings up a modal error dialog about not being able to refresh the play queue, whatever that means, that must be manually dismissed by tapping OK. So the more I exercise the app the less thrilled I am, but, still, all my music is online and can be listened to anywhere, which is pretty amazing.

I have a 100,000 plus songs. What is HtPC and subsonic? How do you do this?

Dear apple,

Please make a second or third pay tier for users with over 25,000 songs. Thank you!

dustinthecole wrote:

Dear apple,

Please make a second or third pay tier for users with over 25,000 songs. Thank you!

Dear dustinthecole,

Please send suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

I just submitted it. Thanks much Chris.

I tried to leave feedback on the feedback page from the link - but didn't see any mention of iTunes match as a subject! For lack of better option I selected iCloud. Apple must be ignoring all of the match users that have wondered about this for a few years now. I played the video that Apple offers describing the iTunes match service and it never mentions the 25,000 song limit, it specifically advertises that you can now store your ENTIRE library in the cloud! This is certainly misleading advertising. I have a lot of vinyl yet to be ripped, but there will be no room for it in the cloud unless I start using Amazon.

Hi bremecuda,

Let's admit it—this has been a HUGE problem for users with more than 25000 songs for ages. However, I do agree with Yuusharo, they did make it clear was the limit was 25000 songs. Although it would make sense for larger plans, they don't have them at the moment. There's always the complicated and disliked way of doing things: having two iTunes Libraries or deleting songs/albums you don't listen to (which I couldn't help myself to do).

Hope this helped!

- Ronni