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Feb 16, 2015 11:24 PM in response to Storm490by Jimzgoldfinch,Hi,
itunes match does not work with family sharin. iTunes match is tied to one Apple id.
Jim
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Feb 17, 2015 3:19 AM in response to Jimzgoldfinchby Storm490,Hello Jimzgoldfinch,
After reading through the forums, I see iTunes Match does not work with family sharing. I believe that I may have conflated my issue. My parents are not having a problem with iTunes Match songs (songs uploaded to iCloud from computer) not being shared. Instead, they are having issues with songs purchased from iTunes directly not being shared across both their accounts. The issue occurs regardless of whether the songs are purchased by my father, the "organizer" of the iTunes sharing, or by my mother.
Am I correct in assuming (since I was not the one to setup iTunes Family Sharing, and have not dealt with it before) that iTunes Sharing is supposed to allow music purchased by any of the accounts associated with the family "organizer" to be accessed by all of the accounts associated? This assumes, again, that the content is shareable (which the website says iTunes music purchased from iTunes is).
If I need to repost this question in a different forum, I will do so.
Thanks for the help so far.
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Feb 17, 2015 4:07 AM in response to Storm490by Jimzgoldfinch,Hi,
i don't personally use family sharing but I suggest that you read this support document Which purchased content can I share using Family Sharing - Apple Support.
There is a link to turning on shared purchases.
JIm
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Feb 19, 2015 9:26 AM in response to Storm490by sawatzky,Jimz is correct that iTunes Match and Family sharing are not tied together, since Match is for one account only. I wonder why that is an issue for some people (not you since you admitted your real issue is with Family Sharing), since any local music (to be matched) is available to families simply by turning on Library sharing in iTunes. Any non-DRM music can be copied by any family member to their own accounts. However they would still have to buy their own iTunesMatch account in order to stream it from anywhere.
As the Family Sharing 'organizer' in my family I haven't had any issues with other family members downloading my purchases, and I can download theirs. However I don't expect them to be able to download the music that I have been given access to through iTunesMatch. The original music [roughly recorded, complete with pops and clicks and hiss] is available to them through library sharing on my local network.