

- Download all itunes match upgrade#
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Tap the cloud with down-arrow symbol to download all songs on playlist. Tap the symbol with three dots next to playlist name. That playlist (smart or manual) with all of your songs is now also in your iCloud Music Library. It automatically updates when you add new songs to your iTunes library. That smart playlist automatically contains all items in your library that are categorized as Music, which means it has all of your songs on it. Match the following rule (checkmark box) OR, you can create a smart playlist that has all of your songs. You can do this manually, by selecting all songs in your iTunes music library (at the same time), and adding the selection to the playlist. On the computer, in iTunes, create a playlist with ALL of your songs. There is also a tip in the comments on one of the above about changing some tracks from music to podcasts or voice memos if you have more than 25k tracks and don't want to split up or make new libraries - this prevents iTunes from recognizing them as music tracks, but still remain playable, get below 25k, and still retain all the metadata, etc.I don't see a specific command to download ALL songs in your iCloud Music Library to an iOS device. Here are some reference links I found useful: Will probably actually make playlists with just the upgraded files, and use BBEDIT to do a DIFF on the xml of the playlist and my main library, or applescript or something.Īlso plan on going back in and deleting stuff from the cloud too once I hit the 25k song wall, and try re-encoding some of my lower than 96kbps tracks (that iTunes automatically excludes from matching) to higher than 96kbps and see if they match then, others have reported success doing that. I haven't worked out the exact process to re-integrate all the new upgraded 256kbps files back into my main library, but thats next.
Download all itunes match upgrade#
Now I had all my tracks that were less than 256kbps from my old library in my new one, but safe in that they could be deleted, but could be played, and also allowed me to use iTunes match just to match and upgrade all my music, as there is no way I was fitting my entire library in the cloud until they give us an option for more than 25k files. Mac 911 By Glenn Fleishman, Senior Contributor, Macworld 7:00 pm PST Image: Apple If you’re like me, you signed up for iTunes Match almost as soon as it was announced exactly. Changed the location of the music library to another folder.Ĥ. Quit iTunes, held down option and made a new libraryģ.
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I had way more than 25K tracks, so before any of this, I made a smart playlist that contained only music tracks less than 256Kbps, and then exported that playlist.Ģ. Thus, any of the songs that you save offline are available to play, even if you cancel your subscription, you can still keep all the music you had before. This should show you all the ones you upgraded and downloaded.ġ. The third smart playlist just helps you confirm you got them back: But iTunes only matched around 7500+ files out of 45,000+ tracks that I whittled down to around 14,000 files less than 256k. I upgraded a few of my more obscure tracks/albums that showed as matches by hand and compared, and didn't find any mismatched files thus far. Yay!īefore you start downloading make sure you have plenty of drive space, a little over 7000 tracks of 256kbps AAC files took up just under 80GB in my case. Highlight them all and then right click and hit download and it will queue them all up to be downloaded to your local machine. Now this will display all the files from the previous smart list that you deleted but left in the cloud. To make the download process easier, make Two MORE Smart Playlists:ġ. You will still have this in your library, but now it will play from iCloud, or you can highlight the track and right click and DOWNLOAD it and it will replace the old one you deleted, with a nice new 256kbps AAC encoded file from Apple. MAKE SURE that checkbox is not checked and go ahead and hit DELETE ITEM. There is a checkbox for "Also delete this item from iCloud" The dialog that comes up asks you to confirm that "Are you sure you want to delete the selected item from your iTunes Library?" This item will also be deleted from any iPod, iPhone or iPad which synchronizes with your iTunes Library.

Now, you can do the next track or album or all at once, but select tracks from this list and hit Option-Delete: Once this smart playlist is made, you will see all the tracks that have been matched and are less than 256kbps have been matched and have corresponding 256kbps versions in the cloud you can grab. Once its done, make a new Smart Playlist (I made a folder for all my Smart iTunes Match Related Playlists) First let iTunes Match do its things and find all possible matches in your library and finish uploading any non-matching tracks.Ģ. My iTunes Match Track upgrading and process info:ġ.
