iTunes Match - Anyone using it?

[alfa147x]

Also everyone should realize that they can cancel their Match subscription and get their money back for the unused portion

 

[scootermaster]

Also everyone should realize that they can cancel their Match subscription and get their money back for the unused portion

Unused? As in? (Is it pro-rated or something?)

And RE: Album art and meta-data, I was just wondering if it did anything at all with the meta data. One way of checking this is changing the meta data to something bogus, and seeing if it still matches, and if it does, what it does with the meta data.

As for artwork, I assume it doesn't embed it; just puts it in the iTunes library, and you have to do any of that manually.

What about library (not file) meta data, like plays, skips, date last played, etc. Does the cloud version maintain that, even if you delete the original?

Thanks!

 

[alfa147x]

I read somewhere when I signed up that it's pro-rated

Meta retention:
Before:

Once locally deleted:

Once redownloaded:

Between steps 2 and 3 I played "Gotta Have It" once.

 

[Ns1]

Fuck spotify. Match > Spotify.

 

[MotionMan]

I read somewhere when I signed up that it's pro-rated

Meta retention:
Before:

Once locally deleted:

Once redownloaded:

Between steps 2 and 3 I played "Gotta Have It" once.

Does it do anything with the genre or leave those alone?

MotionMan

 

[alfa147x]

Does it do anything with the genre or leave those alone?

MotionMan

Notice how The College Dropout doesn't have anything even though it's Rap/Hip Hop? Before the delete and after the redownload it's the same

 

[Wonderful Pork]

I joined Match with about 2500 songs and have a TON of albums where all but 1 or 2 songs will match.

Any idea how to fix it? I'd rather that all songs are the same vs a mixed bitrate album.

 

[amdhunter]

Anyone know where "download all" is hidden on the iPhone? I can't find it.
I don't want to kill bandwidth streaming everything off the cloud...lol

If I knew you'd have to download everything off the cloud to sync your phone, I probably wouldn't have bought it.

 

[Ns1]

Anyone know where "download all" is hidden on the iPhone? I can't find it.

I believe you can create a new playlist with all the songs and then hit download all (which will be at the bottom of said playlist)

If I knew you'd have to download everything off the cloud to sync your phone, I probably wouldn't have bought it.

...how did you want it to work?

 

[alfa147x]

If I knew you'd have to download everything off the cloud to sync your phone, I probably wouldn't have bought it.

I have Match turned on for my computers and turned off on my i-devices

 

[mugs]

Does it do anything with the genre or leave those alone?

MotionMan

It's even better than just leaving your metadata alone. I buy a lot of older music, and inevitably I end up buying remastered versions or greatest hits or whatever. I hate that the metadata has the year for the re-release, because that screws up my decade playlists. I want my 80s music in the 80s where it belongs! So just now I updated the year on Barry Manilow - Mandy from 2002 to 1974 on my Mac Mini. That change shot through the tubes to Apple's data center, back out to my employer's network in an undisclosed location, back out through their VPN to my house where the copy of the song was updated on my work Macbook.

So yeah, it keeps track of your metadata and pushes it out to your other iTunes libraries automatically.

My only gripe - smart playlists that reference other playlists apparently don't get uploaded to iCloud. I'm not sure what the technical impediment would be for that, since the referenced playlists would also be in iCloud. Hopefully they come up with a way to implement that in the future.

 

[amdhunter]

...how did you want it to work?

Where it would let me sync what I want with iTunes right away on my iPhone, and then sync new stuff as I added it later on.

I have about 100 tracks that I listen to, and it sucks that I had to upload them to iCloud, and then not have them right away.

It's only a minor annoyance right now, but I wish I could do a "fast sync" when necessary.

 

[Ns1]

Where it would let me sync what I want with iTunes right away on my iPhone, and then sync new stuff as I added it later on.

I have about 100 tracks that I listen to, and it sucks that I had to upload them to iCloud, and then not have them right away.

It's only a minor annoyance right now, but I wish I could do a "fast sync" when necessary.

interesting. I was under the impression that you only had to upload songs that iTunes could not match.



Streaming from the cloud is fucking awesome. I might keep my unlimited data afterall hahahaha

 

[mugs]

Streaming from the cloud is fucking awesome. I might keep my unlimited data afterall hahahaha

I thought it doesn't "stream" over the cellular network?

 

[Ns1]

I thought it doesn't "stream" over the cellular network?

Settings -> Store -> Use Cellular Data ON


in testing, it actually is slow as hell compared to wifi. maybe it's just due to where I'm at right now...hm...more testing needed.