Actually, I'm now wondering if the 0% indicators I was seeing in the Music app are misleading. Now that I am monitoring progress in iTunes on the phone, it's working brilliantly. Thanks all for the help. Nice to know I'll have music on my long flights.
Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Friday, 22 June 2012 4:00 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Accessibility of iTunes Match in iOS Thanks Anna, are you finding that the bulk downloads lock up and stall at 0% after a while? Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Friday, 22 June 2012 3:54 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Accessibility of iTunes Match in iOS Hi Jonathan and all, Once you choose Download All, downloading starts with the first undownloaded track at the top of the album or playlist. The download button changes to one displaying the progress of the download. You can also check download progress by opening the iTunes app, choosing More, and then choosing Downloads. Best, Anna 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. -- 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.
