25,000 Song Limit

Are you referring to Apple Music, or iTunes Match? Match has a 25,000 limit but it does NOT include iTunes purchases, just your your matched or uploaded tracks.

1@tom12 wrote:

They are one in the same, from what I understand.

No, they are not: iCloud Music Library: Understanding differences between Apple Music and iTunes Match - Apple Support

Apple music also has the same limit I am afraid, just found out today - stupid me. You ll find it in the article.

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@ OP

The fun part is that.

People who knows answer to your question, will not answer because of ND agreements so the only answers that you will get will be from people like you who are speculating.

Subscribe to iTunes Match - Apple Support

More about iTunes Match

• iTunes Match is limited to 25,000 songs.
• iTunes Store purchases made with the same Apple ID being used for iTunes Match do not count towards the 25,000 song limit.
• Unmatched content will be uploaded as is. Upload time varies depending on the amounts uploaded and local network speeds.
• Song files larger than 200 MB won't be uploaded to iCloud.
• Song files longer than two hours in length won't be uploaded to iCloud.
• Songs containing DRM (Digital Rights Management) won't be matched or uploaded to iCloud unless your computer is authorized for playback of that content.

Emphasis added.

That's right. You cannot add more than 25.000 songs to your iTunes library, except for purchases, which aren't included in that amount. Matched, uploaded and Apple Music tracks can be no more than 25.000, at this moment. That is what I have experienced myself.

Can you elaborate, I mean I knew about itunes match having 25 thou limit for a long time, had no idea until today about Apple music having the same limit.

So please what emphasis and were it was added by you.

As of today (see my previous post) both iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library (the "matching" part of Apple Music) have 25,000 song limits. This limit includes any songs you upload/match from your own library or add from Apple Music. The only songs excluded are those you actually purchased from the iTunes Store.

The two major differences between iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library are (1) what they use for the matching (iTunes Match uses the albums in the iTunes Store and iCloud Music library uses the songs that are permitted in Apple Music) and (2) the way they handle DRM (iTunes Match does not use any if you stream and/or download the songs to a different device whereas iCloud Music Library uses a version of Apple's DRM if you download either a song from Apple Music or even if you download your own matched song to another device).

I thought Eddy Cue mentioned in an interview in late June that the 25,000 song limit would be raised to 100,000 with the introduction of iOS 9. What happened to that?

bkhorse wrote:

I thought Eddy Cue mentioned in an interview in late June that the 25,000 song limit would be raised to 100,000 with the introduction of iOS 9. What happened to that?

He did say that they were hoping/planning (did not read the exact interview just summaries from various sites) to have it in place with the release of either iOS 9 or El Capitan (which went live publicly only on September 30th). So right now we are all waiting somewhat patiently to see this occur. (Not to mention the terrible logarithms that Apple is using to "match" your catalogue to their Apple Music catalogue!)

Apple needs your money too much for that to ever happen. Make sure you have backups of anything you put on their servers . No matter what, it will be next to impossible to get your music back off their servers should you lose the files. I've been trying to get my music back for months now, but the store is down all the time.

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