Hi: I too have ripped a bunch of music over the years; however I'm not having the same problems. The status after the song says cloud download. After tapping download all button, the status to the right of the song says 0%, 10% etc. I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1 On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:14 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote:
> Hi all, well I bit the bullet this week and created a library in iTunes that > was under 25000 of my own ripped tracks, so I could take advantage of iTunes > Match. I've been ripping my music for 15 years now, so the idea of getting > nice fresh rips in 256K AAC really appeals to me, and I created a smart > playlist to replace all my rips with the AAC versions. I was super impressed > that tracks I had digitised long ago from my vinyl collection were matched > with a nice clean digital copy in the cloud. Sweet. > > However, I hope I'm missing something, because otherwise, iTunes Match is the > first thing built into iOS that I don't think is particularly accessible. > > Since I have a few 12/13 hour flights coming up, I've set up a couple of > playlists whose contents I want to download to my iPhone so I can hear them > when I don't have an Internet connection. I go into the Music app, locate the > playlist, and choose the Download All button at the bottom of the screen. The > phone gets really sluggish, but also, I find that there appears to be no > verbal indication about what songs are in the cloud, and what songs are > stored on the phone. If you look in iTunes, you can go into the view options > and check the boxes so you are told very clearly what songs are local, and > what songs are not. And I believe that visually, a sighted person can see in > iOS where a particular song is stored. > > I've sort of worked around this by starting the download, going into the > Settings for the Music App, and disabling show all music, so I only see what > songs are on the phone, but that's not a perfect solution. Has anyone else > seen this and even better, found a work-around? > > Jonathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
