I subscribed to iTunes Match and let it do it's thing. After about 5 days, I still have 21 songs that I purchased from iTunes(with DRM)showing waiting. I have tried to force them to update but still shows waiting.
Any thoughts?
Macbook 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.4), 4 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
The files are normal size (5 to 20 MB) They are purchased from Amazon or Napster or downloaded from my CD library into iTunes so I don't think there are any strange file configurations. I do have DSL but I think it would still be faster than that... The only reason I got iTunes Match was for some of my old CDs. I have The Beatles 62/66 and 67/70 and a bunch of the Time Life Sounds of the Seventies and Eighties discs and some others stuff and was hoping to get some remastered versions of the songs without actually having to pay full price for all of them.
was hoping to get some remastered versions of the songs without actually having to pay full price for all of them.
That's a separate issue from getting everything to either match or upload. if you have something that has been remastered, experiences to date suggest you'll have poor luck getting matches to them, simply because theyre not the same track. For one thing, it's generally believed the matching process involves waveform comparision. for another, iTunes matches based on what is "currently for sale in the iTunes store." If what you have is there, it may match (it won't always), but if it is not, but a remaster is, that's considered a different album entirely.
It's funny you should say that. Half of Abbey Road matched but not the other half. One or two songs on each Seventies and Eighties matched but not the rest. Parts of some Elton John albums but not the rest. All the Amazon free samplers. No Springsteen, Al Green or Guess Who which are fairly new CDs.
If you have the 80s mastering of Abbey Road that is simply not going to be a 100% match with what is in the iTunes Store since that version is the 2009 remaster. My copy of Abbey Road, which I ripped from the 2009 stereo remastered CD, matched 100%, which I expected. My copy of Springsteen's Born to Run (30th Anniversay Edition) matched 100%.
For other albums that are a mix of matched and uploaded, the most likely culprit is one or the other version (in your library or in the store) has been remastered at some point. So they won't match 100%.
Songs Stuck in Waiting Status
