My iTunes library has more than 25,000 songs. When trying to sign up for iTunes match, I get an error message indicating that I cannot sign up for this service as my library exceeds 25K songs -- what to do?
I think you're pretty much stuck... Well at least until they raise the limit over 25,000 songs.
So what would happen in a situation where someone registers for iTunes match, has a 24,999 song library, buys a CD separately and adds this to his/her library and exceed the 25K limit?
The 25,000 limit is supposed to apply to the songs you upload that are not already available in the iTunes Store, not your entire library. My library is well over 25,000 songs, but Match let me join and it went thought the process - eventually uploading nearly 8,000 songs from my library.
Here's a short article that might help you to at least get it working.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/14/how-to-use-itunes-match-with-very-large-itun es-libraries/
Thanks.... So did you remove all your songs from your iTunes library, signed up for iTunes Match and then start to add all your songs back to your library (and in the process crossing the 25K threshold)?
I just tried signing up again, and it gave me the same error (you can't sign up as your library exceeds 25K songs).
Any suggestions?
You could also make 2 Libraries.
No, it just worked the first time out. I read the helpful suggestion about making a second library posted above. That should do the trick for you, I hope.
Get the ORB app for your iPhone and your mac, then you can stream wifi and 3g from your mac to your iOS device...works well! It's my own cloud....access to playlists, etc. I even have access to my documents. The app is $10, but worth it...
One additional tactic that's not made clear in the article: the second library approach works pretty well, but "dragging and dropping" files between libraries is not always the most efficient way to build the new "iTunes Match" library.
If you are like me, you have your content you actually care about organized into playlists. If that's true for you, just do the following:
1) As referenced in the article, make sure that "Copy files to iTunes Media Folder" is unchecked (in Windows in iTunes, Edit/Preferences/Advanced)
2) Export the playlists from your old library (in Windows, right-click on the playlist and select Export)
3) Copy the playlist files from the old library into the new library
4) Import the playlists into your new "iTunes Match" library (in Windows in iTunes, File/Library/Import Playlist)
Now complete the iTunes Match activation steps in the article.
iTunes library > 25,000 songs... what to do?
