The limit is 25000 songs that you have not purchased from the iTunes Store. There is no limit to the number of tracks you can have that have been purchased from the Store.
It depends on what you mean by off the grid. You can certainly stream iTunes Match content from the cloud over a cellular connection, but it's going to consume about 2 MB per minute, so you'd want to be on a pretty healthy data plan. It's also possible to disable streaming over cellular as a safeguard against you inadvertently using all your data. Yes, you can certainly download individual tracks or playlists in advance. This is a good strategy if you know you're going to be out of coverage, or without wifi. Jonathan On 15/03/2013, at 6:20 AM, Sandy Finley <finleykn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that if you want > to play music you have stored in iTunes match when off the grid you need to > download it in advance. Some people keep a play list of favorite songs for > this purpose, downloading when they need to be without WIFI for a protracted > period of time and then erasing the playlist from their phones when they > return. I think the real purpose of iTunes Match is not to provide eternal > access to all of our music; rather, to enable the user to store (and download > from the iTunes store) more music than the capacity of the phone allows. I > think there is a limit to how many songs not purchased from iTunes one can > include on iTunes match;; it’s some crazy high number that you and I are not > even close to. HTH. > > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:35 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: iTunes Match Question > > I know that iTunes Match stores your music in the cloud. Mine works fine > when I am connected via wifi. However, if I am using cellular data, my songs > do not seamlessly stream from the cloud. In fact, if I am, for instance, > playing a shuffled selection from all of my 2000 songs, most will not play at > all and I see a “download” icon when I swipe past the song title. Do I have > something set wrong? Otherwise, iTunes Match seems woefully inadequate to > me, since I can’t get wifi in many of the public transportation, office and > restaurant locations I frequent. Does anyone have any helpful thoughts? > > Suzanne > > -- > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
