Hi Eric, Have you already listened to the podcast that Jonathan Mosen did about using iTunes match for this? He posted to the viphone list, and this podcast is also up at the AppleVis site under the "Podcasts" listings, but I don't know whether you're starting from his information or mean your question to go from the points that he covered. <begin quote> Hi everyone, I've been tweeting a bit about iTunes Match this week, and a few people have asked if I could do an Audioboo on my experiences. So here it is. I hope people considering it will find it of use. http://audioboo.fm/boos/859517 <end quote>
There are also some guides that you can find on the web about proceeding, such as the CNET article on • "How to use iTunes Match to upgrade audio quality" by Matt Elliott November 17, 2011: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57326759-285/how-to-use-itunes-match-to-upgrade-audio-quality/ You have to actually delete files to have them replaced with the better quality ones -- you might check this by trying it on a just a few files, first. The other issue is what to do if iTunes match doesn't match your files -- which can occur if the initial encoding is ripped at less than 96 kbps. TUAW had a solution for that, which was to basically use iTunes to create an aac copy at 128 kbps from the ripped mp3 file. As long as some version of the file is shown with an encoding quality of better than 96 kbps, it will try to match the content based on your labels (even if you got this by resampling your lower bit rate rip). Here's the link to the TUAW article if you want to read the details: * "One trick for getting iTunes Match to recognize older tracks" by Michael Rose Nov 20th 2011: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/11/20/one-trick-for-getting-itunes-match-to-recognize-older-tracks/ HTH. Or maybe someone else who has done this can chime in with suggestions. Cheers, Esther On Jun 25, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi listers, > > I recently subscribed to iTunes match. I'm hoping to improve the > quality of some of my music. Many of my rips have some sound issues so > updating to the Apple version would be nice. > > My understanding is that you can download the Apple version once your song is > matched. I don't know how to do that. Can someone offer tips how to know > if you have downloaded a better quality version of the song? Many of my low > quality Mp3 rips could use help and I can't take the time to dig out hundreds > of CD's to do them again. > So far I seemed to have completed the first steps and iTunes thinks it is > done. In the view menu I turned on the iCloud options and now hear the > message" iCloud download needs "upload or the message "iCloud download > "local. > > I would be grateful if someone could explain these messages . And if I can > have directions on how to use iCloud match to improve the quality of my rips > so my listening is improved. > > Gratefully, > > Eric Caron > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
