Tag Archives: itunes
iTunes Match Can’t Handle The Truth
User kudzurebel on Apple’s discussion forum sums up the iTunes Match problems pretty well: The big things that everyone is realizing aren’t being updated in the cloud libraries are “play counts”, “last played dates”, and artwork (I’m sure there are … Continue reading
Hitting the iTunes Match Limit After Signup
As long as they’re going to have limits that don’t really make sense they should give you a little counter or bar graph to let you know how close you are to that 25,000 limit.
iTunes Match Distrust
Check out this weird behavior. Sometimes iTunes just plows through music, updating the play counts with it. I’m accessing these on a non-primary Mac’s iTunes library with iTunes Match enabled. If I open some of these songs in Quicktime I … Continue reading
Entertainment Ecosystems
My brother’s girlfriend bought him an Apple TV for Christmas. He brought it over yesterday so I could try it. It was wonderful. Over the years he purchased a lot of TV Shows through iTunes, including The Wire and It’s … Continue reading
iTunes Match Play Counts and Last Played Dates Problem
From what I can tell they don’t work at all between iOS and Mac/PC, and between computers sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. iTunes Mach vs. Play Counts
“Giving It Away: How Free Music Makes More Than Sense” by Derek Webb
There’s an interesting argument here about how Spotify is no better for artists than downloading music illegally through P2P/Bitorrent. But giving music away for free feels, I don’t know the word…uncomfortable(?) to me. When an artist gives away music for … Continue reading
IMAP For iTunes
I started my iTunes Match scan yesterday. I paused it for today so I could try it out on a separate Mac. It was on the upload part, so I assume that everything that could be matched has been matched. … Continue reading
“Streaming Services (again).”
The new recorded music model and bands that are holding back from streaming services. It would be interesting to know how those Coldplay fans with streaming subscriptions dealt with this missing content. While some headed to Itunes, I’m quite sure … Continue reading
“Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye” by Brett Kelly
Kelly touches on similar feelings I’ve had with these streaming apps. Spotify has no sense of collection. Rdio’s UI feels too slow, even on iOS. But iTunes feels just right. It’s speedy. It works with software like Quicksilver and Launchbar. … Continue reading
iTunes Match Payouts
…we’ve heard that Apple payouts on a ‘Scan-n-Matched’ iCloud song will be in the $0.0007 to $0.0035 range. Low, but iTunes Match operates on the model that a purchase has already been made. We asked apple how much the iCloud … Continue reading