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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

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  • by jamesoufan,

    jamesoufan jamesoufan Jan 28, 2012 6:06 PM in response to ambios
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    Jan 28, 2012 6:06 PM in response to ambios

    Has anyone had problems with album artwork and names in itunes and devices showing up in spanish?

    I have had Itunes Match working about a week now and speratically some traks that were originally in english  are showing up with spanish names and artwork.

    I have to manually change them back to english.

  • by Zeb the cyclops,

    Zeb the cyclops Zeb the cyclops Jan 28, 2012 7:39 PM in response to jamesoufan
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    Jan 28, 2012 7:39 PM in response to jamesoufan

    My nurosonic album "drama queen" shows up under "n" artists, but the artist says "unknown" on my iPhone but the info is right on my iTunes and the artwork transferred fine.

  • by vouder17,

    vouder17 vouder17 Jan 29, 2012 12:31 PM in response to HardRock4
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    Jan 29, 2012 12:31 PM in response to HardRock4

    I have very poor match results. 3016 matched of the 13249 songs... This is after the complete matching process.

    I never expected a high match rate as i have obscure music. However this i find very low. Has anyone got experience with programs like TuneUp that might improve your match results?

  • by KeithJenner,

    KeithJenner KeithJenner Jan 29, 2012 12:34 PM in response to vouder17
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    Jan 29, 2012 12:34 PM in response to vouder17

    I believe TuneUp deals with metadata. It so then, from what I have seen and read, I would expect it to increase your matching rate be exactly zero.

  • by BLoera,

    BLoera BLoera Feb 27, 2012 1:33 PM in response to HardRock4
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    Feb 27, 2012 1:33 PM in response to HardRock4

    what I've noticed and done is to disconnect the Itunes-match and re-connect again. it start to check again and recognize almost 100% of my library.

     

    my problem is: when I buy music in Itunes it delays to appear in the cloud, some of them a week later.

  • by finleyproduction,

    finleyproduction finleyproduction Mar 11, 2013 8:43 AM in response to HardRock4
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    Mar 11, 2013 8:43 AM in response to HardRock4

    These solutions are not working for me.

    Hello there here is my problem. My itunes match will not sync properly. It shows a lot of songs over 100 with the icloud match status as "Waiting"

     

    Here is what i have done


    1. Reinstall the entire OS delete everything and start from scratch

     

    2. Turn on and off itunes match.

     

    3. Hold down the option key

     

    4. Move my music out of the music folder clear everything out of my itunes and bing back my music.

     

    5. Use backup copies of my music in case the music files had been corrupted.

     

    6. Checked numerious mac community forms that report simular issues.

     

    7. Tried another macbook pro that I have

     

    8. My wifes account which has about 8000 songs did no have the issue. My account seems to have the issue sobeservices2. I beleive this to be account specific. My account has 11481 songs and about 100 to 100 show with the status of "waiting"

     

    9. I get no error messages

     

    10. I've tried multiple ISP - COMCAST - FIOS - I even tried multiple computers

     

    11. Redid the entire os

     

    12. My account has problems "*****s2" but my wife account does not

     

    13. Replicated the issue on more then one computer it seems only has problems with my itunes account. Suck waiting to upload

    and its not always the same songs sometimes it's different songs that it gets suck waiting to upload.

     

    14. Removed the waiting songs and attempted again

     

    15. Started with fresh iTunes had the server match a blank itunes folder  to the point where it said "0 Songs Match" then re-added them

     

    16. Called Apple Care and spoke with a Senior Advisor who told me he would have to escalate a ticket and he to thought I had done all the tsing possible and that it was up to the engineers to figure out a solution.



    I have been working on this for about 4 weeks now. All my trouble shooting has pointed it to be an account specific issue.

     

    Any advise from the community

  • by fixerw,

    fixerw fixerw Jul 16, 2015 5:38 PM in response to finleyproduction
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    Jul 16, 2015 5:38 PM in response to finleyproduction

    Updateing to 12.1 destroyed 10 year old 15'500 song library with 7000 songs added from CD and vinyl. I subscribe to iTunes match so whole family can hear cd downloads and we all get to share iTunes downloads. Nice guy from iTunes support worked a work around but also suggested that Match may not be answer for me in the future. Problem recurred when I turned on iTunes. iTunes has worked flawlessly in the past, has supported my library as a native file on my hard drive and backups,  and supported my needs while encouraging me to buy dozens of Apple products for my family. This is the first awful bit of software I have gotten from Apple but may well upend 30 years of product loyalty. No malware from any site has caused this much disruption.

     

    Hank West

  • by less282,

    less282 less282 Aug 19, 2016 8:01 PM in response to sparta!
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    Aug 19, 2016 8:01 PM in response to sparta!

    how did you figure it out because I am having the same problem

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