Comments on: iTunes Match re-match: Have things gotten any better?

By: Josh Lytle

Josh Lytle — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:11:23 +0000

It would be nice if iTunes would just read the CD and match the songs instead of ripping it then matching.

I’ve been using iTunes Match since Beta, and for the most part, I like it. Definitely still some quirks, but its getting better.

By: Peter Van Galen

Peter Van Galen — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:10:49 +0000

I don’t mind it has to upload songs. I started using iTunes Match this week and there are a few problems. Like everything with Apple, there is not enough control. For example one of my Transplants albums was matched to a sensored version..! Since their lyrics involve a lot of swearing it is impossible to listen to the sensored version (where the voices are muted every 5 seconds). So can I choose to upload instead of match this album? Can I match it to an unsensored version?
Another problem is with album art (I took great care over the years to have high quality cover art) and some of them have changed or disappeared, moreover, why can’t I choose one playlist to be on iTunes Match and not my entire library..?
Still I’ll probably keep on using it, just hope they give users more control. First, the option to choose playlists to be on iTunes match and second the possibility to override a match.

By: David

David — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:53:16 +0000

The major bug is that the artwork doesn’t always show up. Also I think you need an A5 processor because on my iPod touch which has an A4, it often will have the wrong song title and wrong cover art. Apple doesn’t tell you this. This problem isn’t present on my iPad mini.

I also hate how it almost instantly uploads your music to the cloud. I wish you could set it so you could doth is manually. It doesn’t give you enough time to make sure you have the correct artwork.

I also wish you could choose between downloading and streaming. My iPad mini has only 16 gigs so I am constantly having to delete my music

By: mixmonkey@sky.com

mixmonkey@sky.com — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:27:07 +0000

Forgot to mention- my CDs are ripped to AIFF. What does iTunes match have to offer me?

By: MIxMonkey

MIxMonkey — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 03:06:43 +0000

Why should I give a **** about iTunes Match? The only fail I’ve experienced is the loss of artwork from my ripped CD collection (all my iTunes Store purchases are fine natch ;-)

Oh, and I can’t seem to get rid of ‘Genres’ in my playlists now. Does anyone listen to their music via ‘Genre’ Thought not….

By: Jumbo

Jumbo — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:56:37 +0000

The reason that certain MP3 or AAC files that don’t match a certain quality criteria won’t be uploaded or matched to iCloud is to stop people from ‘ripping’ songs from low quality streams and then getting iTunes to give them the higher quality 256kbps copies

By: Dr Winston

Dr Winston — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:55:39 +0000

Read the terms & conditions;
‘Songs encoded as MP3 or AAC that do not meet certain quality criteria will not be matched or uploaded to iCloud.’ They just don’t stipulate what the criteria are! Seriously though Apple have dropped a a serious ball with iTunes Match and the new iTunes update which is very buggy and very poor (my search function has almost disappeared – no podcast support). It’s enough to drive you to Android…

By: Russell

Russell — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 02:10:48 +0000

I am interested in using iMatch for one reason only, to get higher quality copies, to the extent available on iTunes, of the 120 so gigs of music that I have in my iTunes library. I do not care about accessing my music through iCloud.

I have reorganised into different albums a substantial amount of my music, mostly in the case of classical music, where I have placed each composition in an album of its own, rather than in the album in which it was originally available, often with other compositions, but also in the case of jazz music, where I have split up some large sets ‘complete recordings’ on particular labels, to create the original albums that were released.

If you know, please tell me whether I should be concerned that use of the iMatch service might tamper with my current organisation of music in my iTunes library.

By: Bea

Bea — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:57:44 +0000

I’m not being sarcastic here I am just honestly surprised. I’ve never had that happen with audio books. My albums are all set in the play list by Album and the songs all say in the list for each album. Singles are listed in-between, for whatever reason I list them by artist. When I use my iPod I generally play different songs, not a whole album at once. I’ll try one album and see if it skips around I’ll have to see if I have a problem with the audio that you describe.
I’ve honestly been very happy with the iTunes match on all of my devices. Now I’ll probably find something wrong such as you describe and be ticked off. lol But my audio books do play as they should.

By: Geoffrey Goetz

Geoffrey Goetz — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:34:20 +0000

It was 11 songs out of 189 or about 6%. My music library is much larger than just these 189 songs. I tried ripping and re-ripping to various formats as well as tried using different CD/DVD players to see if that had any affect as well. I also only tested albums that are for sale in the iTunes Music store. I have plenty of albums that I have purchased that are not for sale on iTunes Music store that are entirely uploaded. And of course any of the concerts that fans have recorded of my favorite Dead shows also are 100% uploaded. Once you start uploading music, iTunes Match just becomes an online storage solution, and not a music matching service. But as I pointed out, the ratio has changed. All of the original 189 songs are matched. Now I upload only 8 songs out of 936 or less than 1%. That is a huge improvement.