iTunes Match Questions

Here are the problems I'm having with iTunes Match.

1. Like many people here I have multiple mainstream albums (that are available in iTunes) that match like 90% of the tracks in the album but upload 1 to 3 of them. This is really annoying and there is no way to force iTunes to check again or force it to match the tracks. I hope apple fixes this.

However, it did match 15,000 of my 16,000 tracks. But, there are definately quit a few tracks that it could match that it isn't matching. I do like how you can force it to accept duplicates if you want it too. I really think when it gives you an error that it should tell you WHY it has an error lol. I had one VBR track that it wouldn't upload until I converted it to mp3 and re-tried.

These are related to using iTunes Match on my iPhone 4s:

2. First I want to say all of my album art synced over perfectly for every albums when I view the albums. However, when I play a singular track the album art initially doesn't show up. But, if I back out of the song and go back to now playing it shows up just fine. But, if I stay in the song it never shows up. It's like it has to download the album art of that song, but it never updates it on the display until you exit out of the track and go back to now playing. That is a minor annoyance.

3. The other problem is that if I play a track from the cloud (it starts playing and download the track) and I lock my phone. Normally it would show the album art in the lockscreen. Even if the album art shows up in the music app it won't show up in the lock screen. It seems like sometimes if the song is completely downloaded it shows the album art on the lock screen. But, not if it is playing/downloading. This is really annoying. Because if I put a album on shuffle that hasn't been downloading ... no album art shows up on the lock screen anymore. 😟