A multi-faceted music subscription service offered by Apple.
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What do the various iTunes Match icons in iTunes mean?
Enabling iTunes Match adds a new default column to song lists in iTunes that displays several new icons:
What do each of these icons (as well as no icon at all) mean?
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Updating ITunes Match metadata/tags?
I recently turned Match on in iTunes, and it did its thing and matched/uploaded songs. I then turned it on in my iPhone and to my horror, the tags that I thought I had meticulously organized weren't ...
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Is it possible to use iTunes Match to replace my existing metadata with metadata from the iTunes Store?
My music in my iTunes library has come from many sources over the years, and it's filled with incomplete or inaccurate or simply missing data, not to mention the fact that most of my stuff doesn't ...
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How do I force iTunes Match to re-evaluate certain tracks
I have a little over 9000 songs. Between yesterday and this morning, iTunes Match is finally done evaluating and uploading songs, and it seems to have made a few mistakes.
If I show the iCloud Status ...
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Why does iTunes Match match only some songs from the same album?
Throughout my library I'm seeing cases where some songs from a given album that I've imported from CD are matched by iTunes Match, while others — on the same album — are not recognized and are instead ...
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How does iTunes Match match the songs in your library?
There seems to be a lot of information about iTunes Match, but I couldn't find any that describes exactly how the algorithm works. Is it something as simple as comparing song names/artists, or is some ...
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How does iTunes Match handle metadata?
When I purchase songs from iTunes, I often times hate the way the MetaData is presented. For example, I prefer the format
Artist Song Name
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artist_name ...
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Is iTunes Match able to recognize songs recorded from analog sources, or only digitally-extracted CD audio?
This question about converting cassette music for an iPod inspired me to ask:
Can the iTunes Match service provided by Apple recognize songs recorded from an analog source, such as recording via ...
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Removing songs from iCloud
I would like to explicitly remove songs that I uploaded using iTunes Match, from the cloud. How is this done? And if I do remove the song, will it be automatically removed from all my devices?
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iTunes Match - No More Backups Needed?
I subscribed to iTunes Match the other day (it just came to the UK) and was thinking - now that iTunes Match is backing up my library, ratings, playcounts and all that awesome stuff, I no longer need ...
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Do I have to explicitly update iTunes Match after adding new tracks to my Library?
Yesterday I set up iTunes Match, and before the day was over it Matched and/or Uploaded all of the tracks in my library at the time. Just now I added a few more tracks and they're currently listed as ...
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Is the iTunes Match Limit for ALL Songs or just Matched Songs?
On the iTunes Match page, I see this text:
iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to iCloud for you to ...
