Q: So many problems with iTunes Match...
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Nov 20, 2011 4:48 AMby mmp1964,Catalyst9 - how are your playlists? In particular - smart playlists and genius playlists? In my initial attempts, my smart playlists had all tunes that matched the criteria (so an 800 song playlist had 4,000 songs) and genius playlists were the opposite - a 45 song playlist had 2-3 songs, or none at all. Turned IM off on my iPhone a couple of days ago when it seemed to be trying to download my entire library and haven't tried it since. I have kept it on my MB though, because I like the ATV interface and convenience of not having to stream from my MB.
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Nov 20, 2011 5:39 AMby mmp1964,btw - my Genius playlists have been restored. I assume what happened is a version was created on my iPhone with only the songs that had been matched, and this version overwrote the version on my MB - perhaps they did not have some kind of hidden unique identifier. At some point in all of this madness I noticed that I had 13 GB of "Other" on my iPhone (which may or may not be related) - so I reset my iPhone and restored from a local backup.
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Nov 20, 2011 7:47 AMby aphutch3,I have turned off iTunes Match:
1) It CRASHES iTunes when trying to upload unmatched songs....
iTunes Match matched ~16,000 out of ~23,000 totals songs (I was hoping for more... but I could definately live with 16k matched)
2) Having a large library .. I would like to be able to skip Steps 1 & 2 once I have run them once to speed up the process of uploading my unmatched songs.
3) Lastly which seems "UNFORGIVABLE" by Apple .... is that my Apple TV, iTunes on my PC and iPhone do not show properly the 16k songs that were supposively matched.... as an example ... I have all the The Beatles albums... they have missing songs from the cloud match... (note: this problem seems to be on albums/songs that I have not purchased from iTunes) .... key to the problem here is I can not tell what iTunes Match matched.... I just assuming albums I know iTunes carries like The Beatles there would be no problem
Hope Apple fixes this service it has alot promise....
At this point it is not ready for prime time release.... I will wait for an update before I try this service again.
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Nov 20, 2011 9:24 AMby richsadams,aphutch3 wrote:
I have turned off iTunes Match:
1) It CRASHES iTunes when trying to upload unmatched songs....
iTunes Match matched ~16,000 out of ~23,000 totals songs (I was hoping for more... but I could definately live with 16k matched)
2) Having a large library .. I would like to be able to skip Steps 1 & 2 once I have run them once to speed up the process of uploading my unmatched songs.
3) Lastly which seems "UNFORGIVABLE" by Apple .... is that my Apple TV, iTunes on my PC and iPhone do not show properly the 16k songs that were supposively matched.... as an example ... I have all the The Beatles albums... they have missing songs from the cloud match... (note: this problem seems to be on albums/songs that I have not purchased from iTunes) .... key to the problem here is I can not tell what iTunes Match matched.... I just assuming albums I know iTunes carries like The Beatles there would be no problem
Hope Apple fixes this service it has alot promise....
At this point it is not ready for prime time release.... I will wait for an update before I try this service again.
You can check the "match" status of any song by adding a column to iTunes on your computer. Open iTunes and in song list mode click on "View" in the toolbar. Click on "View Options". Check iCloud Status (you can also check iCloud Download to confirm the song's availability later).
FWIW I have the same issue with some albums including the Beatles (but not Abbey Road, for some reason it's fine). A a majority of the songs on an album will be matched but a couple won't and had to be uploaded. Definetly a bug.
Here's what I ended up doing to finally get iTunes Match to stop crashing and get all of my unmatched songs (about 2K) uploaded:
There are some other tips and tricks posted on this thread and a couple of others as well.
Hope that helps!
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Nov 20, 2011 9:31 AMby richsadams,Russa wrote:
.. I am still trying to figure out how to get the "matched" music from my iTunes library to my iPhone automatically. Any ideas?
AFAIK it doesn't update automatically. With iTunes open on your computer click on "Store" in the tool bar > "Update iTunes Match."
Once I did that, changes I had made to playlists and a couple of albums I re-ripped showed up on my iPhone and iPad pretty quickly.
If there is a way to get it to do that automatically I'd like to know how also. Or maybe it does and we just didn't give it enough time? I can't find anything on the Interwebs about that.
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Nov 20, 2011 11:06 AMby johnskies,Is anybody having the problem of songs not playing on your iphone or it playing a song that you didnt choose???
Its pretty irritating because its constantly happening. It also wont let me listen to a song sometimes either I'll have to delete it and redownload to work.
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Nov 20, 2011 12:03 PMby richsadams,johnskies wrote:
Is anybody having the problem of songs not playing on your iphone or it playing a song that you didnt choose???
Its pretty irritating because its constantly happening. It also wont let me listen to a song sometimes either I'll have to delete it and redownload to work.
Is it happening with iTunes Match or just a normal iTunes sync library? The reason I ask is that that happened to me when I upgraded to iOS 5. The new Music App messed things up. It was playing the wrong song sometimes and other times it wouldn't play anything at all.
I fixed it by connecting my iPhone to my computer, opened iTunes, unchecked "Sync Music" and clicked on Sync/Apply. That removed all of the songs on my iPhone. I then disconnected my iPhone from my computer and reset it (hold the Sleep/wake switch and Home button down together for at least 10 seconds, until the Apple logo appears). I reconnected it to my computer, checked "Sync Music" and sync'd it again. Everything was back in order, songs played normally. I don't know that the reset step is necessary but I've found that when things get a little buggy, doing so seems to always clean it up.
So you might give that a try.
FWIW the new Music App is a terrible downgrade from the original iPod App IMO - but that's another thread.
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Nov 20, 2011 12:45 PMby johnskies,I'm downloading it to my iphone 4(iOS5) with itunes match. So what its doing is that I pick a song and it wont play, it'll just stay like that or it'll pick a different song completely even though the artwork is for the song I chose. It doesn't happen with my spotify app so I know its just the music app. My whole Itunes Match experience has been pretty disappointing so far but I still have hope. I just want to get these issues resolved and yeah your right the new music app BLOWS.
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Nov 20, 2011 12:58 PMby richsadams,Got it. Here's what I'd try then. Turn iTunes Match off on the iPhone. Update iTunes Match on your computer. Connect your iPhone to your computer, sync without any music as I described earlier - that should wipe any and all songs from the iPhone. (Note if under the Music tab it still says "iTune Match", close and reopen iTunes and it should change to normal.) Then reset your iPhone and then turn iTunes Match back on and let it populate your iTunes library again. If that doesn't work I'm stumped.
Agreed, this has not been a pleasant experience...quite dissapointing. I've gotten it working and I like it now, but man...
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Nov 21, 2011 11:22 AMby richsadams,Macworld has published two very good articles. The first covers iTunes Match basics and the second some troubleshooting tips for those that might still be having issues (most have been discussed here, but it's nice to have them in one place).
iTunes Match: What you need to know | Macworld
Bugs & Fixes: Three essential iTunes Match troubleshooting tips | Macworld
