iTunes Match won't play uploaded songs on second computer
Hi.
I recently subscribed to iTunes Match in the UK, and set about uploading my ~21,000 song library (around 11,000 matched, around 10,000 uploaded) from my home Windows XP machine. It took almost a week ⚠ but finished finally this morning.
I arrived at work, and gleefully wiped the iTunes library on my work iMac, which contained a few albums I'd brought in, thinking I would be able to play my entire library at work as well as home. That's the idea, right? (Barring ineligible songs, I'm aware of the restrictions).
I authorised and added my work machine, and everything appeared to be going smoothly - until I stuck it on shuffle and noticed that it was skipping songs all over the place. On further investigation, it is skipping over every song that was uploaded, i.e. not matched.
Many of these are 128kbps or 192kbps files, and I'm fine with that - but they will not play. Next to each one is the "Download" icon - the little cloud with the down arrow - and clicking on this triggers a download to start in the Downloads window, but the download never happens. The little blue 'barber's pole' style activity bar chugs away, but the download never starts.
I'm pretty irritated by this, since it means that over half my library won't play while I'm at work, and that's not the service I signed up for.
To be clear, Matched songs play fine. Uploaded songs skip and will not download or play at all.
--Clive.
