iTunes Match

[AVT]

Just got it.

Matched ~90% of my songs. I have a few albums here & there that aren't on iTunes, but not quite as many as it wants to upload.

I'm sure the matching will improve as time goes on.

It keeps your tags & stuff too, which is nice.

 

[Angry_Birds]

Not too impressed with it. There are currently about 50 songs that are just sitting there in the "looking for match" phase, and have been for the past few hours.

I also had to delete every single 128/192 kbps song to get it in 256 kbps, and some still re-downloaded in 128/192 kbps despite having an exact match in the iTunes catalog.

As you said, I hope it gets better

 

[Terpfen]

Not too impressed with it. There are currently about 50 songs that are just sitting there in the "looking for match" phase, and have been for the past few hours.

I also had to delete every single 128/192 kbps song to get it in 256 kbps, and some still re-downloaded in 128/192 kbps despite having an exact match in the iTunes catalog.

As you said, I hope it gets better

Considering that they had to temporarily suspend sign-ups due to overwhelming traffic, I'd imagine existing issues will iron themselves out as traffic levels off.

Also.

 

[Angry_Birds]

Considering that they had to temporarily suspend sign-ups due to overwhelming traffic, I'd imagine existing issues will iron themselves out as traffic levels off.

Also.

Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately, my <256 kbps songs are still being redownloaded at their low bitrate (despite having an exact match in the iTunes store). Is there a way to force it to recheck a song?

 

[InorganicMatter]

Ugh. It only matched 2000 of the 8000 songs in my library. Obvious misses include Welcome to the Jungle and the 2112 Overture. And here I was hoping for an easy upgrade to 256k AAC on all my stuff so I wouldn't have to re-rip it...

 

[AVT]

Just finished.

Failed to match 291 songs. About half of them are rap songs from either mixtapes, or old, or obscure artists & thus not on iTunes.

I guess I can live with the other half not being 256k AAC quality for now. But it's definitely not OK that a 320k mp3 of a very popular, recent artist ripped from CD isn't recognized. Hopefully the algorithm improves.

 

[MrCrispy]

What does it use to match? Is it the same audio fingerprint that's used by musicbrainz? Does it fix id3 tags and rename files it can match?

 

[Erebus]

What happens if you don't renew the plan, anyone know? Ie does it keep those songs in the cloud and you can't add more, or does it drop them all?

 

[fileid]

and some still re-downloaded in 128/192 kbps despite having an exact match in the iTunes catalog.

Did you add the column filter iCloud Status? Check the status in itunes. Apple will only match songs from a lower bitrate to 256 kbps AAC if it says matched and not "Uploaded" status. This is probably why your songs are redownloading in 128/192 kbps because they are "uploaded" from your library.

 

[Angry_Birds]

Did you add the column filter iCloud Status? Check the status in itunes. Apple will only match songs from a lower bitrate to 256 kbps AAC if it says matched and not "Uploaded" status. This is probably why your songs are redownloading in 128/192 kbps because they are "uploaded" from your library.

According to this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4124

It's still "waiting". I left it on overnight and it's still waiting, so I'm not sure what the deal is.

*SOLUTION* - Just go to store (on the menu bar, not the actual iTunes store) > "update iTunes Match"

It works great now. My library is identical across my PC, iPhone, iPad, and Macbook air. Any changes I make to song info is automatically pushed to the other devices.