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iTunes Match says "Matching your music with songs from iTunes store".

iTunes Match says "Matching your music with songs from iTunes store". This will not finish. I cannot put any new songs on iTunes Match. This started today. It was working fine. I have deleted my entire library and I can't even get one song to go through. Thoughts? I've been working with this all day. I have uninstalled iTunes, downgraded iTunes, upgraded iTunes again. Finally, I erased all data...Libraries...playlist data, etc.. I'm extremely frustrated now. I had synced about 4,000 songs since September and it had been working fine. Any help would be great.

Windows 7

Posted on Jun 10, 2014 4:42 PM

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Jun 16, 2014 3:53 AM in response to ExileAtkins

I am experiencing exactly the same problems. I had a lengthy phone call with AppleCare about it and tried everything the friendly support suggested. I.e.: signin out of iTunes Match, reconverting the files, creating a new iTunes Library. Nothing helped. The problem persists on a second computer and with a new album I just bought today, so I agree that it seems to be a general problem on Apple's side. I will get back on the phone about this and point the support to this thread.

Jun 16, 2014 5:31 AM in response to ExileAtkins

I'm glad to see that there are many people having the issues that I'm experiencing. So here's what I can say from seeing the replies. 1) it's every platform. Customer Service told someone that it was because they were running XP... Someone commented with the new Mac OS and I run Windows 7. So it's not that. 2) Someone else commented that it happens with the ones that iTunes can't match. I actually have added while albums that I know could match at least one track and there is still a freeze when matching. In my own experiments, I have found that the tracks that I have that I remove and re-add match fine. It has an issue when it's new tracks that I add that haven't been put into my library before. (I'm re-adding tracks because I erased my entire library data thinking it was corrupted and that's why it isn't working.) 3) This is still continuing with no sign that there will be a fix anything soon. I tried to add tracks again prior to writing this and the problem is still there. Apple hasn't released any statements and from what others are writing, they think that everything is fine.


Thanks everyone...and please keep posting. If it continues to have interest, this post might actually get taken seriously. Maybe Apple will take notice.

Jun 16, 2014 7:54 AM in response to ExileAtkins

I highly doubt Apple wants to admit that they have a serious problem with the service, instead they want to suggest troubleshooting options, all of which DO NOT WORK. A support person gave me this number for iTunes Match support: 1-800-275-2273. I'll be calling them to tell them that they need to fix it soon or I will want a refund. Please let me know if it starts working for anyone.

Jun 16, 2014 8:33 AM in response to benJimBob

Well, I contacted Apple this afternoon and went through the usual checks, etc. (which I'd already done).


They asked me to change my Apple ID password to one they gave me over the phone so that my account could be investigating by the engineering team in troubleshooting mode.


I went along with it, but bottled it after the call because the whole premise felt wrong - essentially I'd given them full control of my Apple account. I telephoned Apple myself and although they found the case ID etc. the guy I spoke to said that this didn't sound like Apple protocol at all and he sounded as nervous about my security as I did - so I've reset all my passwords which probably means Apple can't investigate but at the same time I'm protecting my privacy.


Anyone else heard of this troubleshooting mode?

iTunes Match says "Matching your music with songs from iTunes store".

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