39,000 songs, only ~11,000 uploaded/matched. help?

Hi,

If you have 39k tracks I am surprised that you even got started!

Did you have less than 25k when you signed up for match? If you added the additional tracks after signing up, match will not proceed any further and will tell you that you have exceeded limit irrespective of amount previously matched or uploaded.

Jim

Hi,

You will need to delete some of the tracks. You will need to get the non iTunes total to below 25k.

One you have done this update match and let the process complete.

I have a library size similar to you. I have all my music in the library. I have a large number of tracks with iCloud status shown as "removed"

I achieved this by creating a second blank library - I signed into match and was able to view all tracks in iTunes Match.

I then deleted some tracks from this library - effectively deleting (hiding) tracks in the cloud.

When I went back into my original library, those tracks were shown as "removed". iTunes Match will now ignore those tracks. You can now add new tracks provided you kept matched and uploaded less than 25k.

This is a long process but eventually you can have all tracks in your library but with only selected tracks in the cloud.

Jim

Can you explain how, in detail, you did the above Jim?

Much appreciated.

Hi Jim - I have over 500,000 songs, so I just went the route of creating a second library just for Match. I've loaded in all the songs I want to Match in this second library but now I'm missing all of my beloved playlists. Is there a way to access the playlists from my original, larger library if all of the songs in the playlists are in my second Match library? I don't want to have to go through the process of exporting each playlist separately and then importing into the second library, and then I have a problem keeping those playlists in sync as I constantly update them. Can I just share a folder for both libraries to access the same playlists? Thanks very much for your help. This is a serious pain for those of us with large libraries. Itunes should just let you select which songs you want to match if the labels are requiring the size limit. I tried to just go the Amazon icloud route instead, but you can't view your songs by composer like you can in itunes, so I'm trying to deal with second library in itunes instead.