

Its saved me so much time and hassle trying to sync music to different devices.

Not a great first experience, but it sorted itself out in time and I'm very happy with iTunes Match now. Over time, I removed and re-added those songs which had bad matches at first, and it seemed to work. None of the original music files disappeared. And that fee is important to them.Īnd I did the same, with a library of about 12,000 meticulously collected music files (many of which I painstakingly ripped from rare vinyl records), and the only thing which happened to me is that I got a mismatched version when I tried to play some of them on devices other than the Mac Mini which I use for my central file storage. But of course, then they are out the fees. But then yet another sync process to go through.Īpple could easily solve this by making Siri on HomePod access any music library on the connected network. The article seems to say you can then Siri it on HomePod from there. Apple blew it, and perhaps now paying the price.Īn alternative might be to buy iCloud storage and manually copy the library there. If you're big into music, curating an maintaining it is a huge deal.

Apple's Big Thing to me was being able to confidently say to my poor PC colleagues "I've never lost data to a Mac." It was outrageous and cost me a lot in time and frustration without any compensation, and yet they charge for this service? It took weeks determining what was lost and replacing it again, and I’m sure I didn’t get it all back. I don’t mind if it can’t match the music and not copy the music to the cloud if it has issues, but I mind very much that it deleted my data. If you want the song to appear on your other devices, click the arrow next to the song, then click Add to Cloud Music Library. Removed The song was deleted from another device that has Sync Library turned on. Then check if the song appears on your other devices.
#Free itunes match update
I tried iTunes Match a few months after it came out, and I’m reticent to try it again as it deleted almost one third of all my music from my computer. Choose File > Library > Update Cloud Library.
