Retain desired bit rate

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Retain desired bit rate

I write music and save my recordings in iTunes as uncompressed. At least that's the way it used to work. I could then go in and play unconpressed originals or compressed purchases without giving it a second thought.

Now the "new" iTunes shoves everything out to the cloud and reduces all my old files to 256 VBR at best. &^%$#@!!

How can I maintain certain files at uncompressed and purchases at their native bit rate in the same computer?

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 16 GB

Posted on Jul 24, 2015 11:10 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 24, 2015 12:09 PM in response to Peter Inova1

Peter, this sounds like one of the strange problems people have been having since the recent iTunes updates -- though this is a wrinkle I haven't heard before. The problem (or problems) seem to be related to iTunes in the Cloud, so my personal suggestion is to turn off "iCloud Music Library" in iTunes > Preferences, until this mess gets sorted out.

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Answer 2

Jul 24, 2015 2:50 PM in response to Peter Inova1

Hi,

Read this support item iCloud Music Library: Understanding differences between Apple Music and iTunes Match - Apple Support

Whilst this his article is about the differences between match and Apple music, it states that music on your hard drive are not altered by Apple music. Therefore, you should be able to keep compressed and uncompressed music together. If you access your music on other computers or devices, your uncompressed tracks will be matched at 256 Kbps and uploaded tracks will have been transcribed to 256 VBR kbps.

Jim

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Answer 3

Jul 24, 2015 3:41 PM in response to Jimzgoldfinch

Jim, I think we can agree that this is how it's *supposed* to work. But Peter's experience -- along with other reports of anomalous iTunes behavior, posted here and elsewhere -- suggests that something has gone wrong. Or at the very least, that there's something Peter should be doing differently that is not readily apparent in the iTunes UI.

One of the most disturbing stories to date is that of well-known Apple blogger (and musician) Jim Dalrymple, who reports losing 4,700 songs from his library after installing iTunes 12.2. With assistance from Apple Support he has since got most of it back. The whole saga is here: http://www.loopinsight.com/

Perhaps Peter, like Jim Dalrymple, can get help directly from Apple Support.

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