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Q: When will we get the song limit increase to 100,000?

I thought we were getting the song increase in El Capitan to 100,000. I have updated and am still getting the error that the limit is 25,000. Why?

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 8:30 PM

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Q: When will we get the song limit increase to 100,000?

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  • by Harald Köhler,

    Harald Köhler Harald Köhler Oct 9, 2015 8:27 PM in response to bpdguitarist
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    Oct 9, 2015 8:27 PM in response to bpdguitarist

    Perhaps anybody on twitter can ask Eddy Cue?

  • by Quovadis10,

    Quovadis10 Quovadis10 Oct 10, 2015 6:07 AM in response to bpdguitarist
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    Oct 10, 2015 6:07 AM in response to bpdguitarist
  • by akdj,

    akdj akdj Oct 13, 2015 12:35 AM in response to Quovadis10
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    Oct 13, 2015 12:35 AM in response to Quovadis10

    I'm with ya Quovadis. My library exceeds 100,000 but by an insignificant amount. Of the approximately 107K songs in my library, possibly only 35-45,000 are actually 'unique'. Over the years plenty of duplicates ...many I've weeded out but the process is incredibly tedious. Low bit rate, extended and different 'mixes &/or remixes' -- as well as extended, > 200MB 'mix outs' used years ago for preset, sets. As a DJ both on air and on the streets both --- over the past thirty years there's been significant, not even the right word ...night and day changes in mobile sound entertainment, reinforcement, and front of house/backline sets. Gear is much more efficient, lighting and audio (amps/speakers) - gear is lighter, and there's no more milk crates filed with vinyl, two tracks playable on each record

    I'm definitely digging Apple Music, and I'll continue my family subscription ...but Spotify is also mandatory until one of a couple things happen

    A) Apple Music integrates/aggregates with my purchased (>5,000 iTunes) Music in software we use at gigs. From dJay to Serato (or)

    B) 'iTunes Match' increases the limit to 100k ---- at which point I'll find out I've actually got 53,400 uniques - the rest junk and eliminating probably 100 hours of manual labor

    i could care less about the 'storage' amount --- as I've pulled 'last played' or 'times played' (? I believe is the option in iTunes view to see when the last time the track played and how many times the machine ((or devices if set to sync)) has played the tune) On our oldest 'mobile' 2010 iMac (MacBook Pros were double the price, held half the music and broke twice as easy --- or maybe just easier to spill a beer into a laptop, dunno) -- a machine that's done well over 500 'gigs' from weddings to sweet 16s, corporate and birthday parties, Bar Mitzvahs and Holoday events. With the entire library on the machine locally for that many years ...other than purchased over that period of time 'new tunes' --- we ran the numbers and about 2,860 songs had actually beeN played. Of them 1 of 10 ...so about 300 were redundant or copies -- over 750 of the songs were played once and the top 500 ended with 27 plays. IOW, #501 had been played 26 times in five years --- an amount of music easily stored in the cloud or with match but having the updating, crisp and consistent sounding sound quality to me is of concern ...as is the peace of mind knowing the 54,613 songs I've ripped, burned, recoded in analog via turntable ...etc are safe, secure and going nowhere in a catastrophic house fire, flood or unforeseen local event I'm ill prepared for with my local backups (& I've got a dozen of them!)

    Not that I'd be happy as its no more room for Apple than 25k as they've 'got' the music already for the most part ...but hogging more space I wouldn't mind doubling the fee to fifty bucks a year for this security and efficient way to carry our library.

    I'm a geek of an audiophile at home with several turntables and over 5,000 near mint to mint shape vinyl records I've collected and maintained over the years and on my bucket list is to spend a year of retirement 'digitizing' at 24/192KHz my record collection while enjoying each record critically and in real time ...as its irrelevant how quick your CD-R,+R, is when you're burning from analog. No way to speed up the source

     

    that said, Eddie if you're listening ...and like Steve, enjoy your music as much as I've read you do --- there's plenty of us that could easily use a higher cap on 'Match' not only to store the music BUT to actually eliminate massive amounts of work!

     

    sorry, didn't mean to write a novel but I'm finalizing the wedding season and going through a ½ dozen iPads and iMacs / MacBook Pros doing song syncs and library maintenance. What a PITA.

    tl/dr --- please, for all that is great in the world of music --- quietly expand the capacity as others have done (Goo n 'Zon) --- services I've no interest using to store or access my music from!

    J