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Q: iTunes Match - Best Tools for Vinyl 'Match'

What are the best tools for ensuring a good outcome with iTunes Match for Songs ripped from Vinyl?

 

It would be helpful to know for both Mac and Windows 7 PC - please include any sequences if known to work well.

 

Persumably a great sound card is needed to take source feed from high quality audio equipment - but beyond this what works best?

iTunes 10, Windows Vista, iMatch giving inconsistent results

Posted on Jan 30, 2012 8:24 AM

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  • by Michael Allbritton,

    Michael Allbritton Michael Allbritton Feb 3, 2012 8:49 AM in response to JiminMissouri
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    Feb 3, 2012 8:49 AM in response to JiminMissouri

    JiminMissouri wrote:

     

    mracole - I really think there's a good rationale for considering the 256 AAC format a "sweet spot" for the purposes of iTunes Anywhere, which basically is what iTunes Match is.  You can get plenty of music onto your iPhone at that file size.  You're probably at the high end of when it comes to buffering/playing while downloading, based on posts I've read by people who have tried it on 3G.  You can download quite a bit in a short time on wifi.  So even if the hardware is capable in some configurations of playing back higher quality files, you move to anything that increases file size from the 10-20Mb range and you lose a lot of flexiblity, which is what I think most people who use things like iTunes really want and expect.

    I agree with this completely.

     

    For the moment I'm just waiting for iOS 5.1 to be released so I can see if Apple has fixed that annoying "ghost track" bug and fixed Smart Playlists. If they do then iTM will become useful to me and having AAC files of my ALAC files available for my iPhone in the cloud will finally be living up to the potential of iTM.

  • by George Petrella,

    George Petrella George Petrella Oct 26, 2014 7:23 AM in response to roebeet
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    Oct 26, 2014 7:23 AM in response to roebeet

    I see this thread is going on three years old, but I'm just now attempting to convert my vinyl to iTunes to Match. My success rate appears to be 0%. Based on your posts I suspect that my inexpensive Ion turntable with the EZ Vinyl Converter software might be my biggest problem. I have an old copy of Audacity, but have yet to give that a shot. My question is, two years on have you arrived at any method that gets a higher success rate? And I'm guessing this is a dumb question, but why can't Apple use the track/artist/album info to match the songs? 

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