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Itunes match stuck at sending information to apple

Anyone else having issues tonight? Once a week the iTunes match seems to auto run the info gathering and send to apple. Normally it works fine although can be a but slow to get a response from apple sometimes. Tonight it just won't go past 'sending information to apple'. Each time I start iTunes it gathers the info to try again. Anyone else getting similar? My library has not changed in weeks so it can't be anything like that. I guess server issues at apples end?


Cheers

Wayne

Posted on Aug 7, 2013 2:12 PM

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May 4, 2014 4:59 AM in response to bowiestone

You can add me to the list. Tried everything to get iMatch to fully sync with a few new songs added to my collection. Let iMatch sit for 2 days straight trying to match/upload 4 songs. That is ridiculous especially since it is a pay service which does not seem to be working at the moment. However, wonder if it has to do with the release of iMatch services in other regions of the world.


As of this morning, kept stop match, quitting iTunes, restarting match service. have done this about 15 times, and at least get the service to progress to 'Step 2' in match process. However, not optimistic about this because yesterday got to this step, and it scanned my library and would stop 2-3 songs before completing Step 2 and hang, and never finish. hope the service sorts itself out over the next few days. I've been happy with the service offering but, agree, it has been operating in a degraded capacity the last few days/weeks.

May 4, 2014 10:41 AM in response to fdelathouder

Same here. Haven't had any luck with iMatch syncing over the last few days. Suspect there is some type of degraded performance issue, and maybe, it is tied to the other regions in the world now have access to iMatch service. And, maybe, everyone else is using all the troubleshooting steps turn off/on, stop/start, logoff/login iTunes account, etc.. maybe, that is making things worse. Surprise Apple IT Operations hasn't started working to resolve the issue, the forums are light up like a Christmas tree with regards to issues with the iMatch service.

May 4, 2014 11:00 AM in response to Scottyboy99

Same problem in Spain.

After turn off iTunes Match, reboot and turn it on, it pass over step 1 very quickly and start Step 2. Now, it is stuck on step 2 😟. At the beginning on step 2, the data traffic was quite high (seen on Activity Monitor), but after some minutes it's almost plain and it still stuck on this step.


Couldn't add any new album in the last weeks.


Quite dissapointed with this service.

May 4, 2014 12:05 PM in response to hammersfan

Itunes match is a fantastic servive when it works. All our low quality music gets upgraded to 356KBPS if it can be matched & you can carry your entire music collection on your iphone & ipad. The problem is it just does not work correctly right now. I to have spoken to support many times with senior advisors & just a few days ago was actually transferred to the Itunes store. The person I spoke to said he also has itunes match & has the same problem. He assured me they are trying to correct the problem & there should be a resoultion with the next itunes update. I have heard this so many times but every time itunes is updated there is no fix. Maybe we will get lucky with the next update.

May 4, 2014 12:15 PM in response to Scottyboy99

If I turn off iTunes Match and restart it again, sometimes it works pretty fast, but this steps are annoying (same procedure every single time I add new music) and this solution definitly doesn't always work.

If iTunes automatically updates itself or I choose "Add to iCloud" for the contextual menu, there's 100% probability it will never finish his job!


It's ridiculous for a € 25 service! Other free iCloud features are working perfectly, so I can't understand why Apple can ignore this problem for such a long time.

I just renewed my subscription, because I like this service on my iPhone, and Goole's app isn't well integrated like iTunes. But Apple, fix this please!!!

Itunes match stuck at sending information to apple

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