I'm having a pretty annoying problem. I'll Click a song to play and it will playa different song on the album. Unless I download the song before playing it there is no way of actually playing it. Also, sometimes a song won't play when I click play. It'll just hang up on pause instead. Oh and sometimes even songs that are actually on my phone don't play immediately or there album art won't be there right away. Like how does apple manage to **** that up? The music is on my phone, show the album art. It shouldn't have to go to the cloud for album art when the music is actually on the device.
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iTunes Match Bugs
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Sometimes when rating a song(s) within a playlist in iTunes, the ratings won't stick.
When trying to play a song on my iPhone, the next song plays, not the one I picked.
Artwork takes a while to show up.
Some songs/albums are uploaded when the song/album is clearly in the iTunes Store.
When trying to play a song on my iPhone, the next song plays, not the one I picked.
Artwork takes a while to show up.
Some songs/albums are uploaded when the song/album is clearly in the iTunes Store.
You can check for yourself in the iTunes store.
I assume virtually all the sales of that track have been as a part of album sales.
I would imagine there was at least one idiot who bought 32 seconds of silence.
But regardless, talk about the epitome of a first world problem...
Michael
Funny, that was exactly my reaction to the cliché "first world problem".
This thread is called "iTunes Match Bugs". I'm not sure why you're whining about people talking about iTunes match bugs.
I didn't take it that way. I believe he's referring to the people complaining about it not matching silent tracks. If I interpreted that right then I agree with him.
Thanks, that is indeed was I was referring to. Bugs are one thing... silent tracks are another and I would not call it a bug if Match never supported them (assuming there is more than one).
Michael
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Michael
iTunes Match unilaterally deletes playlists
When I matched, a handful of songs didn't match or upload because they were less than 96k. No big deal. Until I turned on iTunes Match on my iPhone. When I went to one of my playlists to download the songs, the playlist disappeared from the list. Then, while I was looking at the playlists, several more vanished before my eyes. Go back to my Mac and those playlists are all gone there as well.
It seems the decision rule for iTunes Match is that if a playlist contains a song that isn't present in the cloud, delete the entire playlist from all devices.
I had to use Time Machine to get an older iTunes library, export the playlists, go back to the current library and import them. Sure enough, on import I was told some songs were deleted from the playlists (like it should have done in the first place).
iTunes Match is now off on all my devices. Fail.
When I matched, a handful of songs didn't match or upload because they were less than 96k. No big deal. Until I turned on iTunes Match on my iPhone. When I went to one of my playlists to download the songs, the playlist disappeared from the list. Then, while I was looking at the playlists, several more vanished before my eyes. Go back to my Mac and those playlists are all gone there as well.
It seems the decision rule for iTunes Match is that if a playlist contains a song that isn't present in the cloud, delete the entire playlist from all devices.
I had to use Time Machine to get an older iTunes library, export the playlists, go back to the current library and import them. Sure enough, on import I was told some songs were deleted from the playlists (like it should have done in the first place).
iTunes Match is now off on all my devices. Fail.
I guess I'm one of those who didn't actually grasp how this thing works. I thought that my music was analyzed in my Mac library, uploaded/matched in the cloud, then my devices were able to access all the music. And this is supposedly much better than syncing my iPhone to my Mac.
However, I thought I would be able to stream from my iPhone but instead you have download the songs. I was hoping to use it like Pandora but with my library - but with a limited capacity it just doesn't seem feasible. Am I missing something somewhere?
However, I thought I would be able to stream from my iPhone but instead you have download the songs. I was hoping to use it like Pandora but with my library - but with a limited capacity it just doesn't seem feasible. Am I missing something somewhere?
I'm still having the bug where I have to sign out of iTunes, sign in, then sign in again to Match anytime I want to get Match to update.
A hassle.
A hassle.
Yeah, spending $0.99 for 32 seconds of silence would be a really dumb thing to do. That's a terrible value when for the same price you can buy 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. John Cage's album is a much better deal for your money.
I plan to buy it, but I'm waiting for a remastered release.
Other broken metadata.
Has anyone seen any reliable success with "date added" metadata transferring to iOS devices? None of my smart playlists that rely on date added seem to work properly. At one point I thought it was working, but it looks like date added only gets embedded in iOS tracks if they're synced pre-iCloud and hang around after iCloud is re-enabled.
Also, it looks like "last skipped" isn't syncing across devices either.
Has anyone seen any reliable success with "date added" metadata transferring to iOS devices? None of my smart playlists that rely on date added seem to work properly. At one point I thought it was working, but it looks like date added only gets embedded in iOS tracks if they're synced pre-iCloud and hang around after iCloud is re-enabled.
Also, it looks like "last skipped" isn't syncing across devices either.
Play count and last played aren't syncing back from iOS devices, it wouldn't surprise me if none of the date related metadata is working. Let Apple know about all these things so they can fix them.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
So, I think I can top all of your bugs...
About 5 days back, iTunes Match managed to scramble about 90% of the metadata on my 3,000+ song library. Not completely random, it just overlaid one song's metadata on top of another's.
Mmm. Yes. Entire iTunes library pretty much gonzo.
Kill me.
I've tried a few different fingerprinting applications to fix the metadata, but that's hit or miss... and half of the hits get the song right but get the album wrong.
So, a couple nights of banging my head on that wall, I figure !@#$ it... Delete my entire library from the computer and the iCloud, thinking I'll just re-download my purchases & pull my ripped CDs from backup or rip them again.
Oh no, not so fast.
With everything deleted, now I have about 900 songs stuck in limbo on my iPhone, which shows them available in the cloud when they've actually been deleted. I try to play them, nothing happens.
Resetting iTunes Match, deleting, re-syncing, every combination I can think of. Nothing.
So now I'm betting my last option is to wipe my phone & set it up from scratch since, I'm sure, restoring from backup will just restore my boned up iTunes Match cache.
Worst. Product. Ever.
About 5 days back, iTunes Match managed to scramble about 90% of the metadata on my 3,000+ song library. Not completely random, it just overlaid one song's metadata on top of another's.
Mmm. Yes. Entire iTunes library pretty much gonzo.
Kill me.
I've tried a few different fingerprinting applications to fix the metadata, but that's hit or miss... and half of the hits get the song right but get the album wrong.
So, a couple nights of banging my head on that wall, I figure !@#$ it... Delete my entire library from the computer and the iCloud, thinking I'll just re-download my purchases & pull my ripped CDs from backup or rip them again.
Oh no, not so fast.
With everything deleted, now I have about 900 songs stuck in limbo on my iPhone, which shows them available in the cloud when they've actually been deleted. I try to play them, nothing happens.
Resetting iTunes Match, deleting, re-syncing, every combination I can think of. Nothing.
So now I'm betting my last option is to wipe my phone & set it up from scratch since, I'm sure, restoring from backup will just restore my boned up iTunes Match cache.
Worst. Product. Ever.
Why didn't you backup your library before using Match?!
I knew better than to trust my carefully tagged library to a beta service.Why didn't you backup your library before using Match?!
Um, I did... That's why I said, "pull my ripped CDs from backup..." Ironically, I also have copies of a lot of it on Google and Amazon, who somehow managed to avoid scrambling my metadata.
In any case, it looks like wiping the iPhone and then restoring it actually fixed the problem and didn't restore the iTunes Match phantoms, although the restore did lose all of my app folders.
iTunes Match - Nearly Garbage
I bought iTunes Match to basically clean-up my library. About 80% of my library is encoded at 320 kbps, the other 20% is all over the place. It is this 20% that I wanted to upgrade to 256 kbps.
Now, I just have around 13,000 songs in iTunes, but iTunes Match only matched around 6,100. Really, it just matched around 40% of my library? Yeah.
Then there is the really annoying occurrence when iTunes Matches whole totally legit (ripped from my CD) except for 1 track. What is so special about this track that causes it not to be matched? I second that person who said that iTM should allow a forced match.
I bought iTunes Match to basically clean-up my library. About 80% of my library is encoded at 320 kbps, the other 20% is all over the place. It is this 20% that I wanted to upgrade to 256 kbps.
Now, I just have around 13,000 songs in iTunes, but iTunes Match only matched around 6,100. Really, it just matched around 40% of my library? Yeah.
Then there is the really annoying occurrence when iTunes Matches whole totally legit (ripped from my CD) except for 1 track. What is so special about this track that causes it not to be matched? I second that person who said that iTM should allow a forced match.
Yeah, itunes match is definitely NRFPT. Of 16k songs, it matched only 50%. I've had zero issues with uploading my entire library to google music and using the gmusic app on my iphone works very well -- streaming it with no hiccups or dropouts.
I love Apple products but I think it's time to point out that the emperor has no clothes on this one. Granted, it was no big deal to try out the service for $25 but I just can't see using it at all until it becomes a streaming service.
I love Apple products but I think it's time to point out that the emperor has no clothes on this one. Granted, it was no big deal to try out the service for $25 but I just can't see using it at all until it becomes a streaming service.
I'M HAVING THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM! I just purchased iTunes Match the othe night and so far it just feels like $25 absolutely wasted. I value my money and work effing hard to earn it, and it pisses me off because this service has so far been nothing but a busted pile of trash for me.
I haven't purchased any music on iTunes, but I started ripping my CD library to put it in the cloud and sync with my iPhone and after some (or at least what should be) VERY SIMPLE tag editing -- changing genres, etc -- and updating iTunes Match, I started seeing duplicate tracks appearing on my iPhone. So I deleted what was so far only about 6 or 7 albums' worth of music from my Mac AND iCloud to see if that remedied the issue, and now iTunes Match tells me there's 0 songs in iCloud but I have some 158 completely broken ghost tracks (some even triplicate copies) stuck on my iPhone that I cannot delete. Playing them does nothing, just kicks me back to album view in the Music app. WHAT THE HELL APPLE? I've backed up and restored my iPhone, nothing. Turned iTunes Match off and on again both on my Mac and iPhone, nothing. There is absolutely no music stored locally on the device, these broken tracks just keep appearing with cloud icons next to them whenever iTunes Match is turned on.
This is so stupid, I have no idea what to do and I don't even want to continue ripping and matching / uploading my library if this is just going to get worse. Its like all these songs are stuck in limbo somewhere on the server end, and I just have no way to access them or delete them to keep them from showing up on my iPhone. Apple needs to get on this immediately, because frankly I'm super pissed off that I threw money away for this garbage service in its current form.
"IT JUST WORKS!"
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Low match ratios
I wonder if those of you seeing low match ratios (sub 50%!) ripped your cds from old CD drives or used suspect encoding software.
It would seem there has to be something different - something off somehow - about your mp3s that is messing with the audio fingerprinting.
I wonder if those of you seeing low match ratios (sub 50%!) ripped your cds from old CD drives or used suspect encoding software.
It would seem there has to be something different - something off somehow - about your mp3s that is messing with the audio fingerprinting.
Who knows... I certainly don't want to re-rip all those CDs to find out. I guess I could do a couple tests but even if that works, it won't really fix the problem since I'm not going to re-rip everything. It seems like the match requirements are simply too tight. I mean, any human being would validate that these are the tracks in question, why can't a computer?