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11-17-2011, 12:54 PM | #1 |
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iPhone + iTunes Match, working?
Thought I'd do an experiment and enabled iTunes Match on my iPhone. I now have access to my entire music collection (in theory)!
Plugged the phone into the car (cradle) and I don't seem to be able to find any of my songs. It's possible that I'm doing something wrong as I just got the car and neglected to try this before enabled iTunes Match... oops! With the phone plugged in, I tried looking under Radio (nope, nothing there). Then I tried looking in the Multimedia section. Didn't see what looked like a song list, but I saw an option for external device. Figured that was my iPhone and chose that... things looked more promising as there was stuff for playlists... but still no song list or ability to browse by artist/album/whatever... Has anyone else given this a go and know if it does/does not work? |
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Did some more playing around on the way home and I'm not convinced that an iPhone with iTunes Match enabled is working correctly.
I found that by using the Search option I can browse everything by Artist, Album, etc... but when I select something the correct thing doesn't play. In my case, I found that no matter what I selected (say, Weezer) a song from Korn would play. If I hit the buttons for Next and Previous track, the same song from Korn would play. Is anyone else able to replicate what I'm seeing? iTunes Match has so much potential because I literally had my entire music collection (over 10,000 tracks) at mydisposal from the iDrive menus... now if only I can figure out how to make them play... |
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11-18-2011, 12:19 AM | #4 |
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I've found that running the app (in your case iTunes Match) first, then plugging the phone/device into the car helps. After you plug it in, the screen of the iphone should go grayish and read something like "Connected." Along with it, you'll hear that four-note noise (whatever it's called).
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Thanks much appreciated! Also do you have match turned on in your music settings? If you do please also try playing a song that you know is in the cloud but not stored locally on your phone.
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I'll have to check this out when mine arrives. This sounds pretty cool.
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11-18-2011, 10:52 AM | #11 |
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Itunes Match let's you store your music in the cloud (Internet) and download them on demand to your iPhone. In theory, that means you could have 300gb in music available to your 32gb iPhone. If it works with our current software that is.
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Anything in your library or only itunes downloads?
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11-18-2011, 11:05 AM | #13 |
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If its in the iTunes store (even if you didn't buy it there) it'll match with the iTunes copy. If its not in their collection, it'll upload up to 25gb of your songs into their cloud storage.
I had about 7,000 tracks that we're matched and 3,000 that were uploaded into the cloud. |
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In practice, I'm not sure if the downloading part is working right. It just hit me that I could have been working with a slow Internet connection on the road yesterday. I'll try again later today in my garage since my car will be connected to my speedy wifi connection to see if this stuff is working. |
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Well, "work" since I'm not sure if any of this stuff works yet. lol |
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HAHA...guess you'll find out sooner than I.
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Just finished playing with it a bit more during an errand and I don't believe that iPhones with iTunes Match enabled is working correctly.
I can see all of the songs but when I select something, either nothing happens or some other random song starts playing. Same happens on wifi so I know it's not an internet connection issue. Not sure if the problem is on Apple's end or with the combox software so I'm not sure who to bug on this. I do have an Apple developer's account so I may try to ping them through that - I've often found that as a good way to cut through the tech support people and get at the actual Apple software engineers. |
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