Download entire library via itunes match ios6?

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Download entire library via itunes match ios6?

Just purchased iPhone 5 - got home after restoring from an icloud backup. Everything is working great, except when I tried to sync my 20gigs of music from itunes on my mac, there wasn't an option as I am using itunes match. All the artists show up under music on the phone, but other than opting to download each artist one by one, there isn't a way to download your entire library onto the phone. Anyone know how to do this? I got a 64 GB phone specifically because I was tired of struggling with itunes match previously...

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iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 9:39 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 21, 2012 9:44 PM in response to p2xb

If you go to the Songs list, there should be a button at the bottom of the list to "download all." If not you can create a Playlist (or Smart Playlist) in iTunes that contains all the music in your library and do the same thing.

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Sep 21, 2012 10:58 PM in response to Michael Allbritton

yeah thanks for the help - found an answer similiar to yours on a thread and it worked out alright in the end. any chance you have an answer to this one: i have 4210 items / 24.05 gigs on my computer's itunes, but when i sync all music to my phone i only have 4,114 items / 23.5 gigs of music. riddle me that...?

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Answer 3

Sep 22, 2012 11:55 AM in response to p2xb

Sorry, I've never been able to really puzzle out those kinds of mismatches.

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Sep 22, 2012 1:18 PM in response to p2xb

It sounds like you got past the syncing issue - but the solution I would have recommend would be to turn off iTunes Match on the phone, then sync (all the old options in iTunes are back at this point), then turn iTunes Match back on.

The difference in the counts and file sizes are probably due to two things - 1. not every file is "eligible" for iTunes Match, so those will only appear on your Mac (pdfs of liner notes, videos, etc) and 2. files that get uploaded instead of matched may be re-encoded at a lower bit rate - for instance if you have an apple lossless file on your Mac, you'll end up with a 256Kb m4a on your phone through Match.

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