"video not eligible for icloud" when uploading a music video

Videos, podcasts and audio books are not eligible for iTunes Match. Only your music library.

Music videos purchased from the iTunes store are the only video files eligible for Match.

I have to disagree. I bought the video of the Adam Lambert performance from Apple iTunes and it is "Ineligible for iCloud"

I have the same issue with some Bee Gees videos. I purchased them on 2/28/11and they show up in my history on my account page. But they do not show up on my purchased list that you access from the main iTunes music page.

Is there a confusion here between iTunes Match & iCloud - they are two separate entities.

Regards,

Shawn

Well I got a response from Apple, I reported the video as having issues through my purchase back in April 2009 and they responded "...found the video has been removed from iTunes Store. Please note that it necessary that items must be available on iTunes Store, so that you can upload them on iTunes Match. iTunes Match cannot match anything that is no longer on the iTunes Store.".

So with that said, even if you buy it from Apple iTunes Store, they can remove it at any time, and if it doesnt match Apple's current inventory it will stop synching.

So hypothetically speaking if at any point Apple decides to remove the Beatles music collection from iTunes, then all of my Apple iTunes purchased Beatles collection will be ineligable through the iTunes Match service.

Apple will need to change this down the road and maybe work with a music libary system that allows any and all music to be matched up with an Internet music archive database.

No, no confusion. It says my videos are ineligible. I have the receipt number and date I purchased them

and on the info bar it says "purchased MPEG-4 video file", and they are still in the iTunes catalog. However, they don't show up on my purchased list just on the receipt under my account. iMatch won't upload them so it is impossible to put them on any device.

GW77 wrote:

I have to disagree. I bought the video of the Adam Lambert performance from Apple iTunes and it is "Ineligible for iCloud"

I'm not surprised that some aren't working. I'll correct my comment - videos other than music videos purchased from the iTunes store aren't eligible. Purchased music videos are supposed to work, but there's plenty of stuff in Match that isn't working yet.

I have the exact same problem. See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3586298 which I didn't get any reply to.

I can't see any way of getting these videos BACK onto my iPad/iPhone.

Update: Sorry, should have said all the videos in the example were purchased form iTunes.

Message was edited by: igmackenzie

"So hypothetically speaking if at any point Apple decides to remove the Beatles music collection from iTunes, then all of my Apple iTunes purchased Beatles collection will be ineligable through the iTunes Match service."

They wouldn't be in eligible, but may have to upload and would probably count towards your song limit. Not ideal of course, but rather different than the problem being reported here as videos can't be uploaded.

A lot of my purchased music videos are marked as ineligible too.

I did manage to get them bck on to my phone by going to itunes then redownloading them from the purchased section.

My problem is that they don't show up on iTunes as Purchased, even though they were!

A support person at iTunes reloaded mine and I downloaded them again.

However, they still do not show up in the purchased area. So mine are still Ineligible. But all the crappy free ones I ever downloaded and didn't want to keep are there.

What really ***** about this whole thing is that you can no longer choose to manually add a song or music video manually to your iPhone. So, if your song or video is "Not Eligible", you can't get it on your iPhone. Well, not entirely true, I guess I could turn the Music Video into a Movie in the Options panel... *sigh* Apple misses the target yet again...