Esther, tim, and others,
I wanted to give a update to those who followed this thread. After
following Esther and Tim Kilburn's directions I was able to successfully use
the iTunes match service to vastly improve my listening experience. The
article reference in Esther's post made this especially easy with the
descriptions on how to make the smart play lists.
When I did this my library of 17,125 songs was divided up and I found
over 11,000 songs that would be improved by replacing them with the higher
quality songs from apple. Further many of these songs were ripped either from
my slightly abused cd collection, I'll never forget the day over 250 cd's hit
the floor when a leg broke offf a bookcase, or from vinyl rips. It is amazing
to me how many songs were matched. I took the bold step of deleting all 11,000
songs from my library and letting iTunes replace them from the cloud. this
took a long time. I let the computer work on this during the night and during
the day when I was at work. It still took my late 2009 Mac book over three
days to complete the task.
Occasionally a error message would come up and then say the network connection
was reestablished. sometimes this error would start happening a lot. When
this happened I would restart iTunes and go back to the smart playlist with the
needed songs and select all again and press download. the process would
continue again and the errors would stop for some time. I noticed that If I
was playing music and reading mail and pushing the computer a bit the error
messages seem to increase.
These are just observations from my experience.
Finally, I definitely notice a improvement in the over all quality of my
listening. I don't think I've heard a skipping or damaged track since I
completed the process. A few of my vinyl tracks still show up in my mixes and
I actually enjoy hearing the familiar background sounds. On the other hand the
crisp sound of the replaced tracks is great. To think all those tracks I
originally ripped 7 or more years ago on a low bit rate Windows machine are now
available so clearly improved without me taking weeks to rip them in again
manually. This was certainly a great investment.
I have only started to investigate the uses of Tunes match with regard
to my phone. I'm sure there is potential there I have not yet begun to use or
understand.
I hope this information is useful to others out there.
Eric Caron
On Jun 25, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Esther wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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