iTunes Match is not working for a growing number of users
An increasing number of iTunes Match users are reporting issues with the service, with some claiming content uploads have not been functional for weeks.

Launched by Apple in 2011, iTunes Match allows users to pair songs in their music library, whether it be downloaded songs or CD rips, with high resolution versions pulled from iTunes. Matched music can then be made available for listening across all owned devices.
To use the service, customers first need to upload their music libraries from the Apple Music app to iCloud for processing. For some, however, that mechanism is no longer working, according to online accounts.
Multiple Apple Support Communities forum and Reddit threads discussing the issue note an array of difficulties, though most complaints focus on problematic uploads. Many reports claim the system enters a "loop" or "freezes" when attempting to upload new content for matching.
"You can download all your files in the cloud but if you upload more, they will not respond. Seems this has been broken for a week now," said one Reddit user.
Other users say the upload process begins, but then stalls with a message saying, "matching your music with songs in the iTunes store."
Apple support personnel are apparently unaware of a widespread problem, according to multiple users who contacted the company for assistance. MacRumors, which reported on the iTunes Match troubles earlier today, claims some users were told that the problem was a hardware issue.
While reports of similar complications date back months, the last week has seen a significant uptick in complaints posted to forums and social media platforms. The increase has been attributed by some to a recent update to the Apple Music app, though the software's role in the ongoing issue has not been confirmed.
Apple includes iTunes Match as part of an Apple Music subscription or as a standalone service that costs $24.99 a year.
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Launched by Apple in 2011, iTunes Match allows users to pair songs in their music library, whether it be downloaded songs or CD rips, with high resolution versions pulled from iTunes. Matched music can then be made available for listening across all owned devices.
To use the service, customers first need to upload their music libraries from the Apple Music app to iCloud for processing. For some, however, that mechanism is no longer working, according to online accounts.
Multiple Apple Support Communities forum and Reddit threads discussing the issue note an array of difficulties, though most complaints focus on problematic uploads. Many reports claim the system enters a "loop" or "freezes" when attempting to upload new content for matching.
"You can download all your files in the cloud but if you upload more, they will not respond. Seems this has been broken for a week now," said one Reddit user.
Other users say the upload process begins, but then stalls with a message saying, "matching your music with songs in the iTunes store."
Apple support personnel are apparently unaware of a widespread problem, according to multiple users who contacted the company for assistance. MacRumors, which reported on the iTunes Match troubles earlier today, claims some users were told that the problem was a hardware issue.
While reports of similar complications date back months, the last week has seen a significant uptick in complaints posted to forums and social media platforms. The increase has been attributed by some to a recent update to the Apple Music app, though the software's role in the ongoing issue has not been confirmed.
Apple includes iTunes Match as part of an Apple Music subscription or as a standalone service that costs $24.99 a year.
Read on AppleInsider
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I download tracks to play offline on my work phone out of wifi range. I replaced existing playlists with the new features.
Edit: and a quick search shows I am not the only one.
I don't bother with lossless or Atmos. Hi-def files are on my iMacs if I want to go that way.
A lot of the uploaded stuff is from monitor mixes I did at the end of sessions, and are not matchable.
It's nice having 13K songs available from my iPhone or MBA without using a ton of space.
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Understandable as guess which stories get the clicks and comments? (hint: see above for the likely answer)
I have been a customer of iTunes Match since the first day it was available and problems with updating it with new files is not really new.
It is a little frustrating. I don't care about the matching aspect, but the uploading really needs some fixing.
There was a time when I could connect my iPhone to my iMac and directly add the music into the phone. Now I need to rip it onto my iMac, upload it (which is a real pain) and then download it onto my iPhone.
Doesn't "just work" anymore.
“Apple includes iTunes Match as part of an Apple Music subscription”
I dropped iTunes Match when I signed up for Apple Music. It seems to be working just fine for me - although I don’t rip a lot of CDs anymore. I’m always on the hunt for less well known music, especially local bands and singer-songwriters, when I go to yard sales, rummage sales, or attend a song night at a local cafe or bar. So far everything I’ve ripped into Apple Music on my Mac gets uploaded to my library and is available for downloading to local storage on all of my Apple devices and for streaming on devices that don’t have local music storage, like Apple TV.
I will say that over the years the iTunes Match service, along with iTunes and Apple Music, has periods of weird behavior that leaves my music library in a state of turmoil. I’ll end up with duplicates and individual songs, say from a compilation, forced into albums. I’ll also see single albums split into multiple albums with one or two songs stuck in their own copy of the original album. It can be very frustrating and makes me wonder if Apple has any employees that understand how the music industry creates and manages its products. I suspect Apple’s engineers try to get too cute about minimizing the library storage footprint and start playing games with the metadata to minimize storage needs. If they can do it 100% transparently and with 0% loss I’d be okay with it, but they don’t. If the same named song is on 10 albums by the same artist I expect every single album with that song to have a copy of that song in it even if it costs me more storage. I want the integrity of the original album organization preserved, end of story.
So if the big headline here is that “Apple Messed up iTunes Match,” I’d simply add “Again.” They will fix it - and they will break it again later on down the road. That’s just what Apple does when they over engineer a solution to a problem that didn’t need fixing. If they’d just stick with the organization that the producers of the music laid out since day one and uploaded and downloaded content with no concern for optimization these kinds of problems would be minimized. If storage size is a concern on their end they can optimize the storage of the content on their servers, but I’d rather they not try to do me any favors on my side or on my devices. It’s never ended well.
And when Apple keeps growing and selling more and more products that crowd scratches their heads in bewilderment. How could suck a sucky company still be in business. Oh, I forgot, only stupid people buy Apple.
There is a worm in the Apple
It's a hit or miss with me. Last CD I ripped only partially uploaded (4 out 15) and every time I hit "Update Cloud Library" a couple more songs get transferred. Granted, this particular CD is not available in Apple Music so that might have something to do with it. The previous two CDs I ripped uploaded without any issues (these albums are available on AM).
I'm always (always) a believer in the saying 'follow the money'. Want to know why something is happening, start by following the money.
IMHO it's no coincidence that the onslaught of negative press stories about Apple started right around the time that the privacy data spigot was fully turned off (became default) to numerous big and little companies. This info spigot turn off hit a wide swatch of industries. Not even Apple can mess with the $$$ without getting blowback.
Apple provides the gold standard basis for interoperation of multiple devices, devices that take the least amount of effort, updating and general bug fixing to make work. Not perfect (interop tech will never be perfect IMHO). I have friends who will ask me to help (for anyone that is any type of PC support they'll know this: the average person assumes I know everything 'techie' because I work in support) with their disparate line of tech products. IME the average user (average) just isn't capable of making it all work on an ongoing basis without deciding they are going to learn it (which is a small slice of users). They end up working out a limited working routine for the basic functionality, and that is what they use. This is where Apple can beat the competition hands down. IMHO they just need to do better getting that out to the user base (and competition user base). Every Apple product should come with a video showing a user experiencing the array of products.