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MC iTunes Synchronizer (using MC with an iPhone or iPod Touch) [v6.0.2]
TXgary:
Thanks for the quick reply. Worked like a charm....
Enjoy your time away.
It is a great product.
Magic_Randy:
Anyone have experience using MCiS with iTunes Match?
Magic_Randy:
--- Quote from: Magic_Randy on August 09, 2012, 12:56:58 am ---Anyone have experience using MCiS with iTunes Match?
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I finally got iTunes Match set up and synchronized (took almost a week) and ran MCiS for the 1st time sine getting it set up. Not sure they get along well.
After MCiS successfully completed, I was logged out of iTunes (and therefore iTunes Match). When I logged back in iTunes no longer recognized my library and asked if I wanted to match this library saying something like only one PC can be matched. I said OK and it then had to re scan everything to establish the match. This did not take too long (compared to the week it initially took).
In my first test I had no new tracks in MC to add to iTunes. Also I had no iTunes tracks to delete. The only changes were last played dates and counts.
Any feedback from others is appreciated. As I learn more I'll report back.
EDIT: findings from additional tests
1) Another test and iTunes Match was not logged out
2) Deletions to clean up orphans works fine - there are individual prompts to delete from iCloud
bspachman:
Seems to work fine for me. I followed a similar procedure when iTM went live. I turned on Match for my iTunes library and it took forever to match & upload. Since then, however, it seems to have worked flawlessly with MCiS--that is to say, the problems I've had with Match I can't attribute to MCiS.
I've seen the unrecognized library fairly often--but mostly on my 'client' machines (ie. they don't have any local music, it's all streamed from Match). Otherwise, tracks seem to upload and update properly, and although I don't pay too much attention to play counts, those numbers also seem to be increasing at a reasonable rate.
brad
Magic_Randy:
--- Quote from: bspachman on August 10, 2012, 11:05:24 pm ---Seems to work fine for me. I followed a similar procedure when iTM went live. I turned on Match for my iTunes library and it took forever to match & upload. Since then, however, it seems to have worked flawlessly with MCiS--that is to say, the problems I've had with Match I can't attribute to MCiS.
I've seen the unrecognized library fairly often--but mostly on my 'client' machines (ie. they don't have any local music, it's all streamed from Match). Otherwise, tracks seem to upload and update properly, and although I don't pay too much attention to play counts, those numbers also seem to be increasing at a reasonable rate.
brad
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MCiS is a great product and I don't expect any issues from it. If anything I expect issues with iTunes Match which is still very young in it's product evolution and the iTunes APIs which will need to adapt to properly support iTunes Match. That's why I'm soliciting input from others using this combination. I'm pretty confident I can work around any limitations in iTunes Match once I figure out the behavior.
I'm glad to hear it's working well for you. I'll do more testing as well. For me the last played dates and play counts are important, so hopefully I can get these to work. I'm also suspicious of what's going to happen when I rename/move tracks resulting in deletes and adds in the iTunes library. I'm not sure how iTunes Match will deal with this, especially the deletes.
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