How does iTunes Match work?

[a-m-k]

I have it, but not all my songs say matched in the file kind column. I don't remember what day I did it, but I was wondering if they only matched so much per month then you had to re match them the next month and if so, how do you do it? Thank you.

 

[a-m-k]

Are you only allowed to add a certain amount of songs monthly? I updated to Catalina 10.15.6 today and Apple Music has been acting a little odd.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

Nah, there's no monthly quota. The bottleneck is probably a combination of the upload speed of your broadband Internet service provider and network congestion (primarily how many devices connect to it).

I signed up for iTunes Match a year or two after it debuted (10+ years ago?). I had a decent sized library (400 GB? 500 GB?) and it took 10-12 days of uploading (mostly while I was at work or asleep) on my ghetto connection. My match percentage is currently something like 80-85%.

However, my initial iTunes Match sync happened in an era when cloud services were pretty paltry so less traffic. Today's cloud services generate tons of network traffic, especially if your network connection is sharing bandwidth with more devices (more mobile devices, smart home appliances, media streaming boxes, smart TVs, HomePods, etc.).

 

[a-m-k]

My Apple Music account has been acting weird as of Thursday night until a little past midnight. I'm not sure if it'll work correctly after I turn off my MBA for the night and turn it back on again. (No, I am not participating in the BETA program this time. I have a new MBA and I am not going to possibly ruin it because of a problem with BETA.)

I'll try again soon. Thank you for replying.

 

[a-m-k]

I think I know what was wrong, there was some minor update recently, and I didn't immediately restart MBA. I waited until the next day to do it.