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Scottyboy99 Author

Level 2

206 points

Has iTunes match gone haywire?

My music artists are all over the place, I noticed it this morning. Just out of blue on all my iOS devices. It makes no difference if the metadata matches for artist, album artist, sort by artist, sort by album artist, ensure compilation is unticked. Many songs are coming up in strange places on the artists view in the iOs devices. Lots of entries under various artists popping up. I have a list of cliff Richard four times under artist as an example - its just crazy. Happened out of nowhere. I only really noticed earlier as back to work started listening to my songs but ic ould of been at the weekend it went all wrong. My iTunes library is perfectly sorted. anyone else seeing strange entries crop up amid their artist list. Could the impending Apple Music be wreaking havoc with match?

Posted on Jun 22, 2015 11:22 AM

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Scottyboy99 Author

Level 2

206 points

Posted on Jun 22, 2015 11:37 AM

Something is seriously wrong with it. All iOS devices are showing split artists despite perfect metadata. I even checked the artist list in iTunes view and they display correctly on here. Adam and the Ants as example shows FOUR times. A single album is split under the four listings. in iTunes I just highlighted all the songs to ensure I re-edited the artist and album artist correctly and was exactly the same. I also ensure compilation was unticked, yet no diff.

restarting match on the ios devices makes no diff either.

This is madness

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Scottyboy99 Author

Level 2

206 points

Jun 30, 2015 10:39 AM in response to WDI

SSorry one last question - is there still option to toggle off downloads under cellular service? To restrict excessive data use out and about I did this when leaving library on shuffle. The songs not held locally on the device would always be greyed out under this method which worked well. Does that still happen? I wish the train would hurry up, it's baking hot here in London and an desperate to get back and install !

WDI

Level 1

83 points

Jun 30, 2015 10:51 AM in response to ehmjay

Looks like it. Under Settings/ITunes & App Store/Use Cellular Data.

Says "Use cellular network for automatic downloads, iTunes Match, and Apple Music.

You can toggle it off.

Hope it still works the same way as I do the same, don't want to use cellular data for music not on the device locally when driving around etc.

WDI

Level 1

83 points

Jun 30, 2015 10:56 AM in response to Scottyboy99

Another good thing, looks like you can delete local music by artist again. Pretty sure that option was not available in the 8.3 version like it was in the older iOS versions prior to iOS 7.

Jun 30, 2015 10:59 AM in response to ehmjay

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/586287040

tap on artists in the music app and then toggle the show music option...it'll show all music you have stored in the cloud

Jun 30, 2015 11:00 AM in response to Scottyboy99

Anyone else turned on match on their MacBook...all safe to do so?

WDI

Level 1

83 points

Jun 30, 2015 11:04 AM in response to bravewolverine

I never turned it off. But everything appears fine in iTunes on rMBP.

However, not sure if the 10.4 OS X update affects anything. I'm not able to get it as the app store seems to be down for me.

Jun 30, 2015 11:03 AM in response to WDI

Ta - I'm switching it on now...

WDI

Level 1

83 points

Jun 30, 2015 11:06 AM in response to bravewolverine

The only thing for me though is the rMBP is not my main iTunes library. I pretty much just play match songs on it. And it appears fine but I don't have the OS X 10.4 update either.

My physical library is on an old windows XP machine which I have not turned on in quite a while.

Scottyboy99 Author

Level 2

206 points

Jun 30, 2015 11:28 AM in response to WDI

MY artist view is still all split. I see cream five times among many more doing same!

Jun 30, 2015 11:30 AM in response to Scottyboy99

Give it 15-20 mins to do its thing - I had the same issue

mkpub

Level 1

55 points

Jun 30, 2015 11:33 AM in response to Scottyboy99

Try signing out from your account in the Music app; quit (and reboot); then sign back in in the Music app. That worked for me.

Jun 30, 2015 11:55 AM in response to mkpub

anyone else's playlists not syncing across their devices? Music is all back to normal but playlists aren't syncing....

Scottyboy99 Author

Level 2

206 points

Jun 30, 2015 11:56 AM in response to bravewolverine

CCool, yes it's ok now! Phew. Sorry just one thing and I know it's off topic but is anyonr seeing 'shake to shuffle' is gone?

mburnett

Level 1

10 points

Jun 30, 2015 11:57 AM in response to mkpub

mkpub,

Thanks. This seems to be working for me on my iPad. I haven't taken the risk on my iPhone yet. I'll leave that for a few hours. iTunes Match seems to be unavailable on my MacBook at the minute.

Also, I'm getting the same error message others have reported when enabling 'iCloud Music Library'. Is this the new name for iTunes Match? I can't see any reference to 'iTunes Match' in 8.4.

Banksy11

Level 1

4 points

Jun 30, 2015 1:46 PM in response to Scottyboy99

Its all good now. Actually I think it's better. The show all music on off switch is now in the app and not the settings now called listen offline. All in It must have been a necesarry mess up for the new app to work on 8.4. So yet another few frustrating days. I can't actually figure out how to rate tracks? Although my playlists are all there. Also is Apple TV OK now with the music library?

Has iTunes match gone haywire?