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Oh well, I'll just do it manually then.

Edit: Wait, all of my contacts are in the Address Book now. I don't know how I did it.
I turned on Contacts in iCloud on the iPhone, then I restarted the MacBook Air, and went into my user in Finder and pressed on "open" beside "add Address Book Card.

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Isn't Pages documents supposed to turn up on both my Mac and iOS devices through iCloud? Do I have to download them from iCloud.com first? =/
 
Fucking hell decided to update my 4 to 5.0.1 and now I lost all of my contacts.

Edit: NVM I got them back somehow but I'm missing a lot of stuff. For example, my texts are only as recent as september, anything after that I don't have. Same with contacts, I don't have some numbers that I added recently. WTF Apple?! :\

Thank god for the onscreen home button, mine is pretty dead.
 
Anastacio said:
Oh well, I'll just do it manually then.

Edit: Wait, all of my contacts are in the Address Book now. I don't know how I did it.
I turned on Contacts in iCloud on the iPhone, then I restarted the MacBook Air, and went into my user in Finder and pressed on "open" beside "add Address Book Card.

Edit 2:
Isn't Pages documents supposed to turn up on both my Mac and iOS devices through iCloud? Do I have to download them from iCloud.com first? =/
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Do you have lion or snow leopard?
 
iTunes Match out http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/14/2561227/itunes-match-now-available


"Apple's pushed its iTunes Match feature live, with a new version of iTunes (10.5.1) to download that will do the magic. The service, which costs $24.99 a year, gives you iTunes Store-quality and cloud availability of all your music, whether you ripped it from a CD, bought it from another store, or, uh, otherwise acquired it. Apple naturally isn't crowing about that latter possibility, but some see the service as a concession to still-rampant piracy. Unlike some cloud services, you can't upload any of your own music. Instead, Apple matches your library up with its own set of tracks in the iTunes store — that saves Apple the hassle of hard drive space, but that sweet album your brother and his band made in 1995 in the rec room won't be available to your other devices through the cloud, you'll still have to sync those the old fashioned way. The service is currently beta, and if you sign up now you get an extra three months free, but at the end of the beta you'll have to start over."
 
Tobor said:
I thought you could upload stuff that you couldnt match on their servers? Was that pulled at some point?
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Yeah, what the hell? That makes this the most useless service ever.
 
What happens if you only subscribe for a year? Do you lose access to your music in iCloud? I wouldn't mind paying once to match what I have already and then continue to purchase my content on iTunes from here on out.
 
Gamecocks625 said:
What happens if you only subscribe for a year? Do you lose access to your music in iCloud? I wouldn't mind paying once to match what I have already and then continue to purchase my content on iTunes from here on out.
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I believe you get to keep the music but can't ever redownload it.
 
Gamecocks625 said:
What happens if you only subscribe for a year? Do you lose access to your music in iCloud? I wouldn't mind paying once to match what I have already and then continue to purchase my content on iTunes from here on out.
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Someone in the comments posted this:

“If you don’t renew the yearly $25 subscription, your iCloud store goes away. iTunes purchases will still be available to all devices, and anything that you have downloaded from iCloud to you devices you keep. This includes iTunes Plus versions you have chosen to replace older, lower quality rips in your main iTunes library. Apple explained that replacing those lower-quality rips is optional.”
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I'm not sure where they got it from, though.
 
iTunes match is out/iTunes 10.5.1. I'm going to give this a try when I get home today. I'll let you guys know how it works (hopefully it's a good experience)
 
There has to be a better solution for > 25k song libraries than just flat out turning you away. I just can't think of a way to handle it that wouldn't be tedious and completely annoying for the customer.
 
Ken Masters said:
iTunes match is out/iTunes 10.5.1. I'm going to give this a try when I get home today. I'll let you guys know how it works (hopefully it's a good experience)
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Can you let us know if it lets you stream music in your account from iCloud without having to actually store it on your device?
 
dream said:
There has to be a better solution for > 25k song libraries than just flat out turning you away. I just can't think of a way to handle it that wouldn't be tedious and completely annoying for the customer.
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Well if you're really in the Eco system, couldn't you try to do some logic that just removes least songs played or lowest rating until you hit the 25k mark?
 
infiniteloop said:
So looking at my library it seems that:

- old DRM 128k iTunes music
- anything with a bitrate >100k

isn't eligible.
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do you mean less than 100 kbps? cuz practically every song out there has been ripped at 128 kbps or higher.
 
dream said:
There has to be a better solution for > 25k song libraries than just flat out turning you away. I just can't think of a way to handle it that wouldn't be tedious and completely annoying for the customer.
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It's probably such a small percentage of Users that cross the line, it's not a high priority for them.
 
Marty Chinn said:
Well if you're really in the Eco system, couldn't you try to do some logic that just removes least songs played or lowest rating until you hit the 25k mark?
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Probably, but I think its atrocious form to ask the user to delete any of his or her content just to get past the velvet rope.
 
infiniteloop said:
The Matching sucks. It matched some songs for a Beatles album and not others. I don't see why it would pick up some songs and not others.
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Because it does not have the songs or not enough information is in your meta data?
 
rezuth said:
Because it does not have the songs or not enough information is in your meta data?
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no idea. here's part of my Beatles:

6344484401_707c5183dd_z.jpg


Matched is, obivously, matched. Uploaded is if it couldn't find it.

Revolver is on the store, so I don't get why it couldn't match it?
 
infiniteloop said:
no idea. here's part of my Beatles:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6344484401_707c5183dd_z.jpg[IMG]

Matched is, obivously, matched. Uploaded is if it couldn't find it.

Revolver is on the store, so I don't get why it couldn't upload it?[/QUOTE]

Are the rips from the older, non remastered CDs? I could see that potentially bugging up the system as itunes only carries the new ones (and none of the mono recordings, either)
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LCfiner said:
Are the rips from the older, non remastered CDs? I could see that potentially bugging up the system as itunes only carries the new ones (and none of the mono recordings, either)
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hmmm. Could be. I'm pretty sure they're all from the 80s CDs.
 
infiniteloop said:
So looking at my library it seems that:

- old DRM 128k iTunes music
- anything with a bit rate lower than 100k

isn't eligible.
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It's actually anything under 96kbps I think.

So once everything is uploaded, can you still go back and fix up things to make songs match? Because I know some of my tracks that are being uploaded are available in iTunes. And since some of those are under 256kbps, I'd obviously rather match them than upload.

Edit: Actually, I think it may automatically upload anything over 256kbps.
 
dyls said:
It's actually anything under 96kbps I think.

So once everything is uploaded, can you still go back and fix up things to make songs match? Because I know some of my tracks that are being uploaded are available in iTunes. And since some of those are under 256kbps, I'd obviously rather match them than upload.
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Technically, couldn't you re-rip (not from source) your <96kbps files as something higher, then get iTunes to match them? i.e. using right-click, "create AAC version". I guess there's probably a reason why they're under to begin with (spoken audio, mono etc), so the point is mostly moot.
 
Electric Brain said:
Technically, couldn't you re-rip (not from source) your <96kbps files as something higher, then get iTunes to match them? i.e. using right-click, "create AAC version". I guess there's probably a reason why they're under to begin with (spoken audio, mono etc), so the point is mostly moot.
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Yeah, I had about 5 songs that were a very low bit rate, so I just made AAC version and they matched fine.
 
i was hoping that Apple would've improved LaLa's fingerprint algorithm since they bought the company. it's frustrating having 8 songs of an album matched with three or four in the middle unrecognized.
 
infiniteloop said:
no idea. here's part of my Beatles:

6344484401_707c5183dd_z.jpg


Matched is, obivously, matched. Uploaded is if it couldn't find it.

Revolver is on the store, so I don't get why it couldn't match it?
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but once they are uploaded you're good to go right? seems like it hurts them worse than the user since it puts more demand on their servers, from the user perspective once its uploaded there is no difference unless I'm mistaken
 
for some reason iTunes Match's scanner is more worthless than Lala's. It's only been able to match 40% of my music collection. Entire albums from artists like Smashing Pumpkins are missing, I see tons of albums missing either a few or many tracks.

it's only $25 for the year, but i feel like i should be able to get a refund on this.
 
Any Canadians dick around with regional crap to get iTunes Match? Would like to hear your experiences before I waste my own time doing it :p
 
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