25,000 Song Limit

Yes, I believe that is the case.

Did you buy any of the songs from iTunes? If so they don't count towards the 25,000 limit.

No, these are from my own collection. My iTunes songs are not included here.

Will all songs of my own collection will be uploaded and count?

The first 25,000 should go into your Cloud library, and after that, I believe you are correct in that they will just be available locally.

I haven't tested it myself though, so I may be wrong. That does seem to be what others have reported though.

Ok, iTunes Match is syncing now. How is iTunes Match counting?

I have to 8087 songs that needs to be uploaded 😐 is this my total count of 25,000?

Another question:

• How do i add songs to my iPhone for offline use and how do i remove / replace them with new music without deleting them from my iCloud?
• I also have a a playlist that iTunes Match wil not sync because there is something other than music in it .. if i look into the playlist i cannot find anything else than music in it ... whats wrong here?

Thanks for the help !

I'll try to answer as best I can.

Your count will be those that are uploaded and matched. As you don't have any purchased music in your library then it will basically be the size of the library, so keep that below 25,000 until at least the initial match has finished.

You add songs to your phone for offsite use by selecting them on the phone App and downloading them. You can do that my song (by clicking the cloud icon next to it), or by album, artist or playlist by clicking "download all" at the bottom of the list. Personally, I would create a playlist on iTunes, wait for it to appear on your phone and then download it all.

Deleting them from the phone is more problematic (although I haven't done this yet). Somebody else will probably be able to help with the best ways of doing this, but I'm pretty sure that you can't delete items from the cloud via your phone, so no worries about accidently doing that.

I know that you delete songs by swiping across them and confirming delete. If you swipe across an artist and select delete it will delete the tracks that you have downloaded by that artist. There may be some tricks to make things simpler though.

You can go into Settings/Music, and turn the "show all music" toggle off, which will mean that just those songs on your phone are shown which may help with deciding what needs deleting.

I can't help with the last question I'm afraid. Are there any songs that have problems (i.e. ineligable) in the playlist?

I'm trying this now and it appears to be working. If this works, man....major high five. It doesn't scan audiobooks and count them toward the total. Who freaking knew? You, that's who.

i hate the limit. i'm using Amazon.