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attempt to "re-match" tracks

Will itunes match attempt to re-match tracks which were not matched in the first go-round and ended up being uploaded? For example, on Abbey Road it matched all tracks except for She Came in Through the Bathroom Window. Now I have almost the full album at 256, and one track at 128. Not ideal.

itunes match-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Nov 15, 2011 12:10 AM

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Nov 15, 2011 5:12 AM in response to depecher

Nope, that doesn't work. From what I can see, once a song is tagged as Matched or Uploaded, it stays that way until you do something drastic like deleting it from iTunes (and iCloud) and then re-adding it to iTunes. I ain't doing that.


Apple needs to add an option to iTunes where you can right-click on an Uploaded song and say "Reattempt Match".

Nov 15, 2011 7:07 AM in response to secondandc

This is the exact same question that's on my mind. Actually it's two fold: one, how can you get a track that was uploaded to re-attempt to be matched, and two: what if anything can I do to that track to improve it's chances of being matched instead of uploaded? Like others, I've got full albums that were mostly matched but with a few tracks that were uploaded. Which makes no sense.

Nov 15, 2011 7:28 AM in response to secondandc

I have some albums where half the tracks are matched and half are uploaded. For example Metallica's Master of Puppets all but one track, Damage, Inc., were matched. Damage, Inc. was uploaded. I don't understand this. It would be great to be able to click on the track and attempt to re-match, or at least get more information as to why it didn't match.

Nov 15, 2011 7:54 AM in response to secondandc

Same question here. I've tried to Update iTunes Match a number of times, but it doesn't look like it does anything. I tried deleting uploaded tracks and re-importing, but it doesn't even re-upload them - it just says they're already Uploaded.


Most of The Beatles worked for me (1967-1970 has a LOT of Uploaded tracks). I'm have a lot of trouble with Metallica discography (every album has unmatched tracks) and Jay-Z discography (same). There are a lot of others with unmatched songs here and there as well, and a handful of songs labeled as "Error".


Hopefully Apple issues some sort of statement about impending fixes.

Nov 15, 2011 8:02 AM in response to secondandc

And another bump for this here. I'm really just playing with iTunes Match at this point, looking at the quirks, etc.


I have only uploaded the 5 Slipknot albums (all of which exist on iTunes), but can't seem to get three songs on one album to match. All the rest are fine. Naturally, this is not ideal. We need a statement from Apple on this ASAP. I have tried the delete/delete from iCloud/readd route with no success.

Nov 15, 2011 8:11 AM in response to ehunterfele

I have the same issue with just a few songs from certain albums not matching. Its odd. I have to wonder if there is something legal behind it (you know how sometimes you can't preview certain songs online) or if I had certain songs that were corrupted in some small way, or if the match simply needs to improve over time.


Overall I'm quite impressed with the matching and don't really find it to be a big deal that some were uploaded and some were matched (unless my goal is to upgrade the album by re-downloading)


For now I just let it upload what it needs... I have about 9000 matched and 3000 uploaded. I also have a lot of obscure bootleg type songs that would never match.

Nov 15, 2011 8:26 AM in response to secondandc

Deleting from the cloud and then re-adding the tracks can make it worse it seems.


I have an album, Abacab by Genesis. It seemed like a good one to experiment with, I have the CD, I don't really want to listen to it and the name of the album and the first track are certainly unique. This album was ripped in iTunes Plus (256kb VBR 44.1 etc.) from CD.


Originally 3 tracks matched and the other 6 did not. The first track "Abacab" did not match so it can't be a name conflict or anything like that. I'm sure the name is unique. It is also certain that the album is available in iTunes though the album name has a (Remastered)[Bonus Video Version] tacked on the end. This doesn't appear to affect downloading artwork so I doubt it has anything to do with the matching process.


Next I deleted the album from iTunes, including from iCloud. Reran the iTunes Match update. Quit iTunes. Added the album back to iTunes. And finally added the tracks to iCloud again. This time the number of tracks matched was only one. So I went from 3 matching to 1. And it looks like from the status messages, if the tracks were already uploaded, they are not uploaded again even when they've been deleted.


This may be a caching thing so I'm going to wait about 8 hours and try adding the tracks to iCloud again tonight.


Anyone else done this kind of experiment?

Nov 15, 2011 10:28 AM in response to Sliney

Just chiming in to say that I'm having the same problem. We really need a "re-attempt match" option for all those uploaded orphans.


I've tried deleting a track from iCloud and my library, then re-importing, but it still shows up as uploaded, without even going through the upload process. I've tried converting tracks to different formats and then doing the same. In that case it does actually re-upload, but doesn't seem to help with the matching, at least so far.

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