Hi, This article may be slightly out of date. Yes, in the past, it was necessary for your music to be downloaded in order for your iDevice to play it. I don’t believe that this is true anymore. I just tested it with an obscure Canadian song I had that is not available on iTunes for sure. I played it on my iPhone and it streamed the entire song and did not download it in order to play it. In fact, the Download button still appears after the song title telling me that it is still available to download to my iPhone if I wish.
Now, regarding the original question, if you turn off iTunes Match on your iDevice, connect your device to your Mac with the USB cable, go into iTunes and into the pane for your iDevice, you should be able to tell it not to sync music at all. Once you apply your changes, all music that is currently on the device should be removed. After the sync is complete, turn iTunes Match back on through your iDevice and you should regain access to all your purchased and matched music for streaming purposes. The other method would be much too tedious as you would need to delete each song individually. Occasionally, you’ll find that, for some unknown reason, the sync process leaves a number of songs on your device but, overall, you’ll have a huge amount of space regained. Again, you could check before turning iTunes Match back on to see if any songs were missed when deleting, then delete them individually. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think that's the way iTunes Match works. It just scans your local > music collection and generates a list of all the tracks you have there. It > then will allow any of your other devices, such as your phone, to sync the > same set of music but the source will all be Apple's original 256kbps AAC > files. If your library gets corrupted or you have junky mp3s of some tracks > iTunes Match can make those issues go away. So, yes, you'll still sync and > download all your tracks to your device. It's not a streaming music locker > service. Found an article describing what iTunes match does here: > > http://lifehacker.com/5859343/what-is-itunes-match-and-should-i-subscribe > > CB > > On 12/2/13 8:23 PM, Desi Noller wrote: >> Good Evening! >> >> A couple of months back, I subscribed to iTunes Match. I currently have >> 4,012 songs there. Previously I had stored all of my music in my iTunes >> Library on my iMac, and all songs were also stored on my iPod Touch 4th Gen >> 64 gig. Once I had all of my music in iTunes Match I thought the space >> taken up on my iPod would be freed up. I discovered however, that I >> actually still have 3,427 songs physically stored on my iPod. How can I get >> them off my iPod so that I can just stream them using iTunes Match? I tried >> turning iTunes Match off on my iPod and then turning it back on a little >> while later. I was asked if I wanted the library replaced to which I >> answered yes. When that was done, I went back and checked under >> Settings/General/About, and discovered that it still says I have 3,427 >> songs, using 29 plus gigs. Any help with this would be much appreciated! >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Desi >> >> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
