iTunes Match waiting/uploading Incredibly slow

Hey Mate,

i have had exactly the same problem and losing patience as we speak.

I have my macbook pro storing most my music as i DJ with it (bout 120GB), and my studio imac with most my productions in it and stored in its itunes (bout 70GB)

I bought match about 3 days ago.

I have tried everything but it always hangs on step 3, always at different stages..1, 10, 30, 60 tracks in it just hangs.

I've tried restarting, plugging into my ethernet cable ect...always the same problem, hangs at step 3.

To add insult to injury, it always goes through step 2 first again when it has already done all the matching it can do. And...i don't even care about the artwork. I wish there was a way to bypass the artwork lookup function, and just upload the remaining songs to icloud.

Its sooooooo slow!! i left it hooked up upstairs to the fast ethernet cable for 3 days and nights and it still didnt get through all the tunes, just on my macbook pro!!!

I'm sure theres no shaping as its 200GB total upload+download before any shaping occurs and it says on my account i have only used 10-15% of my 200GB!!

I'm so ****** off i spent the money on this program as i thought it would be a cool solution to ferrying tracks between computers and between ios's! & instead Its a slow pest!

And it turns out that you need osx lion for icloud / match to work properly. I'm on snow leopard, but it works well and i don't want to upgrade to lion becuase it normally has issues with drivers and certain plug ins and VST instruments stop working within my music sequence program (cubase 5.5).

Anyone else out there with some other ideas, as i will not be re-doing any of my library as i'm too busy in the studio....

Joey

Have you taken a look at your file types to see if what you have is being transcoded into a compatible AAC before being uploaded? If you feel you have a good upload speed (mine is much faster on the download side) and your files are in the 10Mb range, you should see one get processed every few minutes, providing there isn't transcoding going on in the background. To check your file types, check out this link.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4914

If that is what's happening, if you have access to another computer and can transcode them yourself, you could set that process in motion for some of your library. Get them over to the second computer, start transcoding, delete the originals from the computer running the Match process, then add them back in later.

If you haven't already done so, with match running, go into your view options and turn on icloud status. It may not show much of anything if the whole library is still beeing processed, but when match isn't processing, you'll be able to see where you are at, how many uploaded, how many matched, how many are still waiting.

I have a connection of 4 Mbps to upload (and 25 Mbps to download).

This has been the worst week I have experience with any online service.

I have been leaving the iTunes Match process running everynight, and it only uploads like 20 songs.

Every single day I have to re-start the process and it collapses my internet connection.

Also, many matched songs are still not available in my iOS devices.

Have anyone completed this process with its entire iTunes library?

Please confirm that it is worth this effort, and that afterwards it works fine?

Hi - I'm having a similar problem but my £22 subscription offered me something that worked, not something that meant I had to start mucking about with file formats. I don't download illegal music, but my iTunes is populated with stuff bought, and with my own cd collection, accumaulated over the years.

My process is running (1) and (2) fine, slowly but fine, but as soon as the 1600 or so songs not matched are started on, it simply falls over and stops. No explanation, no messages no absolutely nothing.

Why are Apple selling a product that isn't working

I accept that my internet connection isn't the fastest, I'm looking at moving the house closer to the telephone exchange but it is what it is. Nothing else falls over because of it, and rental films etc download and play fine so what is going on and how do I get (3) to work or an option to skip it?

Grrr (as they say).

Sorry guys, but how do I know if the song has been matched or uploaded?

Activate the iTunes Match status in the view of your Library.

View Options.

It will add a column to see the status of each song.

Thank you, now I got it!

The strange is that some song is not matched even if in the store is present with the same name/artist/album tag

In some album I have 1 or 2 pieces no matched.

If I download these pieces from my iDevices I should get the same mp3 file, right?

Or the file is uploaded and converted in aac format?

I think what's going on here is: iTunes Match is grabbing as much of your upload bandwidth as it can, thus making everything internet-related (both upload & download) unresponsive, including, eventually - itself. I've seen this same thing iTunes Match, and also now with iCloud Photo Library. This post here: http://christianvarga.com/itunes-match-not-uploading-songs-heres-how-to-fix-it/ seems to corroborate my experience (everything gets sluggish); they recommend NetLimiter for Windows & suggest Entonnoir for Mac. Entonnoir itself seemed to work for people, but relied on the /sbin/ipfw tool, which is replaced by something else in Yosemite, thus it's stopped working, as described on Entonnoir's website: http://tools.chocoflop.com/entonnoir_en.html . Entonnoir's author suggests using Network Link conditioner (part of XCode's IO Hardware tools), available here: https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=conditioner - as described here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/164959/bandwidth-limiting-in-yosemite . This upload hogging, which bogs down all network activity, has bugged me too - thus leading me to this discussion, as well as the links I'm posting here. I'll try the suggestions posted on AskDifferent (the apple.stackexchange.com link), and report back here.