Essentially, you just sign into iTunes if you haven't already, and hit the "Match" radio button. That should present your media the way Match stored it; again, it will all be online at first, but you can pull down local copies of anything. Someone with more experience will be able to help way more than I can. On Jul 8, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Tamara Rorie, Esq. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, I had signed in and matched most of it before the crash. There would be > some miscellaneous things that were added later that had not matched yet. If > you have any info on this, fell free to send it my way. > > Thanks, > Tamara > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Alex Hall > Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 7:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Hard Drive crash and iTunes Match Question > > From what I've read, iTunes Match can do this. That assumes that you signed > into it before the drive crashed, and that the external drive contained your > iTunes library so iTunes could grab and match all those tracks, and that you > didn't hit the 25,000 track maximum. Even if you hit the limit, you should > still have the first 25,000 tracks, though. Anyway, and again I've only read > about this and not actually done it, just sign into iTunes, turn on Match, > and then all your music will be there. It won't download, it is all in the > cloud to start with, but you can download any or all of your files through > iTunes if you want locally available copies. > On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Tamara Rorie, Esq. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All: > For the past six months, I have painstakingly reinstalled over 1600 CD's onto > a new external hard drive in an effort to recreate and clean up my iTunes > library. Unfortunately, a couple of days ago my external drive completely > crashed and is unrecoverable. I am wondering since I just recently decided > to join iTunes Match, would that service be a way for me to reinstall my > library on a new hard drive? In other words, would there be a way that I > could download all of the music onto a new drive? If not, does anyone know > of a software package that will detect and remove duplicates and broken > links. If I could clean up the old library, I could use it. Any help > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Tamara > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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