Apple issues third beta of iTunes 10.5.1 for testing iTunes Match
After erasing developers' iTunes Match accounts, Apple has supplied its developers with a new beta of iTunes 10.5.1 to test the new $24.99-per-year service.
The third beta of iTunes 10.5.1 is now available to members of Apple's developer program. The company said it includes "a number of important stability and performance improvements for iTunes Match."
All who are testing the iTunes Match service, which also remains in beta, must update to the latest iTunes 10.5.1 beta in order to continue using the subscription service. The last beta was supplied earlier this month, and brought iTunes Match testing to the Apple TV.
The first beta of iTunes 10.5.1 was supplied to developers in October, soon after the public release of iTunes 10.5. Apple originally promised that iTunes Match would become publicly available by the end of October, but that deadline came and went without comment from the company.
As Apple continues to attempt to work out kinks with iTunes Match, the company once again erased accounts Saturday morning. Developers were notified on Friday that their iTunes Match beta libraries would be erased as Apple continues to prepare for the forthcoming launch of the service.
When it is eventually publicly available, iTunes Match will support music collections of up to 25,000 songs for $24.99 per year. The service will scan users' personal music libraries, including songs obtained from ripped CDs or other locations, and match them up with tracks sold on the iTunes Store.
iTunes Match subscribers will be able to re-download any of their matched songs on other enabled devices, including iPhones and iPads. Those downloads will be 256Kbps AAC files, even if the original user-owned files are of lower quality.
The third beta of iTunes 10.5.1 is now available to members of Apple's developer program. The company said it includes "a number of important stability and performance improvements for iTunes Match."
All who are testing the iTunes Match service, which also remains in beta, must update to the latest iTunes 10.5.1 beta in order to continue using the subscription service. The last beta was supplied earlier this month, and brought iTunes Match testing to the Apple TV.
The first beta of iTunes 10.5.1 was supplied to developers in October, soon after the public release of iTunes 10.5. Apple originally promised that iTunes Match would become publicly available by the end of October, but that deadline came and went without comment from the company.
As Apple continues to attempt to work out kinks with iTunes Match, the company once again erased accounts Saturday morning. Developers were notified on Friday that their iTunes Match beta libraries would be erased as Apple continues to prepare for the forthcoming launch of the service.
When it is eventually publicly available, iTunes Match will support music collections of up to 25,000 songs for $24.99 per year. The service will scan users' personal music libraries, including songs obtained from ripped CDs or other locations, and match them up with tracks sold on the iTunes Store.
iTunes Match subscribers will be able to re-download any of their matched songs on other enabled devices, including iPhones and iPads. Those downloads will be 256Kbps AAC files, even if the original user-owned files are of lower quality.
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But it works with XP... a ten-year old, non-native OS.
Very disrespectful of their Mac customers.
Especially since Snow Leopard broke so many drivers, and Lion loses the ability to run PPC executables... they basically ensured that it would be very unwise to upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion for users with heavy investments in older software and drivers, then locked them out of compatibility with their IOS devices.
Someone at Apple needs a wake-up call.
I need iTunes Match more than anything and at $25 per year it is a steal. This is not US-only is it?
I seem to recall it is just US, to start with at any rate. All to do with licensing agreements i think. No doubt I will be corrected if I am wrong.
Because that still doesn't work with Leopard, a 4-year old, native OS.
But it works with XP... a ten-year old, non-native OS.
Very disrespectful of their Mac customers.
Especially since Snow Leopard broke so many drivers, and Lion loses the ability to run PPC executables... they basically ensured that it would be very unwise to upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion for users with heavy investments in older software and drivers, then locked them out of compatibility with their IOS devices.
Someone at Apple needs a wake-up call.
If you buy a copy of Snowleopard Server it runs in VMWare in Lion very well. You can ignore all the dedicated server apps and won't know it from regular SL. An expensive work around to be sure but worth being aware of. I haven't tried Leopard Server yet, I suspect VMWare won't allow that to install.
Because that still doesn't work with Leopard, a 4-year old, native OS.
But it works with XP... a ten-year old, non-native OS.
Very disrespectful of their Mac customers.
Especially since Snow Leopard broke so many drivers, and Lion loses the ability to run PPC executables... they basically ensured that it would be very unwise to upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion for users with heavy investments in older software and drivers, then locked them out of compatibility with their IOS devices.
Someone at Apple needs a wake-up call.
I don't use Leopard anymore, but I agree with you.
Someone at Apple needs a wake-up call.
It will be slow in coming. It is rarely effective to point these sorts of things out when a company is making huge profits.
Because that still doesn't work with Leopard, a 4-year old, native OS.
But it works with XP... a ten-year old, non-native OS.
Very disrespectful of their Mac customers.
Especially since Snow Leopard broke so many drivers, and Lion loses the ability to run PPC executables... they basically ensured that it would be very unwise to upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion for users with heavy investments in older software and drivers, then locked them out of compatibility with their IOS devices.
Someone at Apple needs a wake-up call.
It will be slow in coming. It is rarely effective to point these sorts of things out when a company is making huge profits.
On one thread people complain that Apple is "forcing" users to upgrade and then on this one we get complaints that is "forcing" users to stay on old setups. You can't please all of the people some of the time; forget about all of the time.
Because that still doesn't work with Leopard, a 4-year old, native OS.
But it works with XP... a ten-year old, non-native OS.
Probably works in Windows 95 too. Windows is pretty much the same. They just give it a new name and make it look a little more like OS X with each new release.
I need iTunes Match more than anything and at $25 per year it is a steal. This is not US-only is it?
Yes. US only.
The record/movie companies are crazy. They don't want to make money.
For example: Movies was introduced in iTunes a couple of weeks ago here in Sweden.
Same with Siri: it only works good in English and is useless outside US/France/Germany.
Sorry for whining.
$25 each and every year. I might consider paying it once, but not every year. I've already paid good money for Audio-CDs which I've ripped to iTunes. I'm not going to continually pay again every single year. This $25 yearly fee is for those folks that stole their music. Honest purchasers of CD's are being punished. I think I'll just avoid iTunes Match.
Sorry for whining.
Oh, no; you're not. You're exactly making the point that Apple, for legal and PR reasons, doesn't explicitly make.
It truly is insane for people who've bought their own music, either through iTunes or ripped from CDs, to pay yearly to listen to it. This is also why I simply laughed at Microsoft's Zune plans. What were they, $15 a MONTH for an all-you-can-hear buffet of music you don't actually own, and if you stop paying monthly you lost access to it?
It's crazy. But iTunes Match is great… for pirates. As long as they're not audiophile-pirates (
After all the fan fare in October and the contunuing concerns being leaked by Beta Beta Beta testers it is starting to raise lots of questions about the value of this product. Perhaps Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta Beta will produce more favorable reviews.
$25 each and every year. I might consider paying it once, but not every year. I've already paid good money for Audio-CDs which I've ripped to iTunes. I'm not going to continually pay again every single year. This $25 yearly fee is for those folks that stole their music. Honest purchasers of CD's are being punished. I think I'll just avoid iTunes Match.
Sorry for whining.
Less than 50c a week to clear up much needed space on my 16GB iPhone 4.
Seems well worth it.
I can reinstall some of the Apps I had to delete.
You frame the service as a feature for people that have stolen their music. In part I believe that is a mistake. Rather I see it as a way for Apple to get a little income out of what would otherwise be a drain. Just because a feature is free does not mean it is cost free, somebody has to pick up the bill.
In any event it is best to wait and see exactly what is being offered anyways. It is like the people that get wrapped up in pre-release device speculation and then get disappointed with what is actually released. Base your opinions on what is real and simply enjoy the speculation for what it is.
$25 each and every year. I might consider paying it once, but not every year. I've already paid good money for Audio-CDs which I've ripped to iTunes. I'm not going to continually pay again every single year. This $25 yearly fee is for those folks that stole their music. Honest purchasers of CD's are being punished. I think I'll just avoid iTunes Match.
Sorry for whining.
Because that still doesn't work with Leopard, a 4-year old, native OS.
But it works with XP... a ten-year old, non-native OS.
Very disrespectful of their Mac customers.
Especially since Snow Leopard broke so many drivers, and Lion loses the ability to run PPC executables... they basically ensured that it would be very unwise to upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion for users with heavy investments in older software and drivers, then locked them out of compatibility with their IOS devices.
Someone at Apple needs a wake-up call.
Nope. You need to decide if you want to run legacy software, or upgrade your software and hardware every five years or so. If u want the latest technologies, u need to get the latest technology. It really is that simple.
Nope. You need to decide if you want to run legacy software, or upgrade your software and hardware every five years or so. If u want the latest technologies, u need to get the latest technology. It really is that simple.
Unless "u" "r" a Windows user, in which case we'll indulge "u".....
Because that still doesn't work with Leopard, a 4-year old, native OS.
But it works with XP... a ten-year old, non-native OS.
Very disrespectful of their Mac customers.
Especially since Snow Leopard broke so many drivers, and Lion loses the ability to run PPC executables... they basically ensured that it would be very unwise to upgrade to Snow Leopard or Lion for users with heavy investments in older software and drivers, then locked them out of compatibility with their IOS devices.
Someone at Apple needs a wake-up call.
Easy. Just keep using your StarTac.