Do I have to keep music in iTunes in order to use ITunes Match? Am I able to delete music from iTunes in order to make room for new music and still have that deleted music available in match?
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You can delete your songs on iTunes if you are using iTunes Match, but iTunes will have to use the Internet when you want to listen to your music
Ok, so once I add music to iTunes and want to delete music from iTunes in order to make more room on my computer then the previously added music will still be accessible? Thanks for your help.
You are correct, because iTunes Match stores your music on iCloud
Great! Thanks. Well, ITunes Match here I come!
You are welcome
In addition to mende1's advice you should be keeping a backup of your music locally. iTunes Match is not a backup service, nor should it be relied upon as one.
Unless you just absolutely need the space on the HDD of your computer, but you want to stream the music in iTunes you can create a second iTunes library to use for that purpose.
You may want to think it over more. iTunes Match works great between multiple Macs, but I had a serious and INFURIATING problem on my iPhone 5.
With Music Match enabled the ability to delete songs manually on your iPhone has been REMOVED from iOS 6. This is a serious bug. It will be called a feature, but its a bug. The reason it is a bug is because of the issue I ran into tonight.
If you have a song on your iPhone that is corrupt, it will not play and will immediately go to the next song in the playlist. BUT with the new iOS 6 update (6.0.2) and maybe earlier, you can't delete that file. iTunes Match _automatically_ manages your music and guess what, it thinks that the corrupt song is downloaded, so it won't get it from the cloud and you can't delete it and force it to re-download anymore.
The solution for me was to turn off iTunes Match, manually delete the song, and then redownload it from the iTunes Store. This is maddening.
Apple needs to re-enable manual delete for songs when iTunes Match is turned on in the next iOS 6 upate. They can leave their fancy auto delete to make space algorithms in place, but for corrupt tunes you get hosed with no way to force a reupdate of the song.....
J_W_W wrote:
With Music Match enabled the ability to delete songs manually on your iPhone has been REMOVED from iOS 6. This is a serious bug.
No it isn't. A "bug" is when software doesn't work as designed or does something unexpected. Since this is the way the service is designed in iOS 6, ergo, it is not a bug. You may not like the way it functions, and I don't either, but that doesn't make it a "bug."
J_W_W wrote:
Apple needs to re-enable manual delete for songs when iTunes Match is turned on in the next iOS 6 upate. They can leave their fancy auto delete to make space algorithms in place, but for corrupt tunes you get hosed with no way to force a reupdate of the song.....
Reportedly that is exactly what Apple is doing. The next update to iOS should give us this feature back.
Michael Allbritton wrote:
Reportedly that is exactly what Apple is doing. The next update to iOS should give us this feature back.
Its good to hear that.
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