iTunes Match

I’ve had iTunes Match for a couple of years now. I’d originally had it’s master folder on an iMac 24” polycarbonate. And this synced with various other devices MacBook iPod touch and so on. But the limited space I had on the iMac even with a 1TB drive ment I wanted it on another machine that could handle the storage. Up pops my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 as this has four internal bays I can have a dedicated 1TB media drive just for this. So I went about moving the drive music over, through a time machine backup. I partially new of issues when sync before where music would not show up as playable (grayed out) even though all the music (500 albums) I have on cd. So after some double checking making sure any missing cd’s were added. I removed all the login’s for all the machines I’d though had at least a sync in the past to make sure nothing was duplicated and the Mac Pro could be sync as master. All this seemed to go well. I even signed out of previous i devices as well. However signing into the account iTunes Match is on, on my iPhone XS seems to have added missing tracks yes but, and here’s the long winded issue. Parts of the old sync seem still to exist like albums I needed to rename on the Mac Pro as iTunes didn’t do it right. I of course re-synced after to make sure the changes were synced globally. Am I missing something in my approach.

or will iTunes Match use the bones of the old and original sync. It seemes fine on the Mac Pro? But the I device is more confused.

iPhone XS

Posted on Aug 15, 2022 8:01 AM

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Aug 15, 2022 12:38 PM in response to FirstGeneration1st

I'm not sure I fully understand your issues, but when you use either of iTunes Match or Apple Music see Identify cloud status icons in your music library on your Mac or PC - Apple Support to make sure that all of your tracks show as either purchased, matched, or uploaded. That content should then be the same in any other computer or device where you enable Sync Library AKA iCloud Music Library.


As for edits that don't appear to have taken there is a potential issue with purchases from the iTunes Store that may revert to their original store metadata. My workaround for this is to hide these purchases from my purchase history, then make sure the the local copies with my metadata are added to the cloud library.


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Aug 23, 2022 1:00 AM in response to turingtest2

Thanks for the reply.


The music added, was all from CD. So I’ve needed too at times adjust some of the album info. I think that’s where the issue is. The Music that has edited info is uploaded as well as the album’s original info as well. Instead of it being replaced.


it’s by the by now though as I’ve cancelled the subscription, it was costing too much.


owe well. I’ll just have to do it the old fashioned way lol.

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