I build my smart lists based on ratings and sort by last played. I listen to music primarily on my iPhone and sync to update my iMac. Does this meta data syncronize via iCloud Playlist syncronization? That would be cool and I'm all in if it does.
MBP 2.4, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
I have exact same question.
What if all my devices went bust and need to restore from icloud? would all the meta data I entered laboriously be there still?
In general yes. Metadata for songs is preserved. But last played dates are working only sporadically, if at all, for many people.
Thanks Michael. I did go ahead and sign up and play counts and last play do not sync on my machines. Everything else seems to sync including genres.
Yep, that has been pretty much everyone else's experience as well.
Thanks, Michael.
You're welcome.
This has been bugging me a lot, too.
The play counts update for me as well as ratings regardless of what device I use, however, the most important metadata to me, the "Last Played" dates, do not transfer from ios devices, just local mac dates and times for me. Of course, the "Last Played" dates are the backbone of all my smart playlists that don't function correctly anymore ever since iCloud was introduced. Hope that this can get bettered.
Miss the syncing of my smart playlists so that the music stays fresh rather than replayed over and over.
Any of you find that the music from playlists will replay sporadically, too? Playlists with 100's of songs in them will be playing on iphone, I'll hit skip, and then it starts it all over again as if I hit the skip back button. Or it'll play the next song, then after that, goes back to previously played song. Quirky service.
Wish I had a fix to contribute rather than just a complaint, but really hoping they could iron this out or provide a work around other than not using iCloud. Here's to hoping!
Does iTunes Match sync metadata like ratings?
