iTunes Match has gone live, taking a punt...

sounds like a plan. might be doing the same.

You first.

Me too.  When I activated match on my iPhone it deleted all my music from the device 

Does anyone know a quick way of deleting any songs that are less than 256kbps?  Smart playlists dont let you delete.

You can enable a bitrate column in the view settings, clicking it will sort your music high to low.

Itunes match now complete.  Have deleted a couple of albums I ripped years ago and downloaded from cloud at 256, which worked a treat.

Switched on itunes match on iphone, but not sure what to do next.  Can listen to any album on wifi or 3G, but not sure how much data it uses on 3G.

Any tips welcome

I have subscribed to iTunes Match too, but songs purchased recently on my iPad have disappeared. Do I have to "download" them again to play them?

Edit: worked out where they are now. I clicked on shared and they were in the iPad section.

Mmmmm so can someone explain, re the rips that are less than 256. Does it replace it on the PC or .... How do you replace them with 256 version?

As this is the only reason I am interested.

Ta.

Haven't tried this myself yet, but this should work...

http://macdailynews.com/2011/11/15/how-to-replace-low-bit-rate-tracks-wi...

Nice will look into in the AM when I am awake.

One thing I have noticed is the iPhone music app isnt smart enought to skip to a local track when the signal drops out.  Was driving down some wiggly roads today relying on the iPhone for sat nav (using navfree), and the music app just stopped when I left the main roads.  I cant exit my satnav app without it stopping, so had no music untill I could stop some where.

I noticed my fuel economy drops noticeably on country roads with no music...  must be the boredom

well it seems that I have about 1k of tracks less than 256 and it would also mean I could have access to all my iTunes music without taking the NAS or PC to the rents over Xmas...... Already taking one NAS with movies on it over to keep the kids happy.

21 squid might be cheap.

well I have had to change my itunes store to the UK but it is now gathering the info.

what it like about this idea is that I can, I believe, access all my music from any country, no need to drag a PC and NAS over to the UK.

But if you didn't have free wifi it would cost you a fortune???

You can get 1TB portable drives that fit in your shirt pocket.

and?

I've had my PC on for 2 days with iTunes going through the stages of 'matching'!  I've only got about 70GB music too!!  I've had to do it a couple of times too, as it didn't pick up all the tracks first time (for whatever reason).  Takes agest to do step 3 too.

I think it's a brilliant idea.  You can access your music on the go, and most places/people these days have wifi you can tap into, so not really costing you cash.

Example - at New Year I'll be round my brother-in-laws.  I'll be testing the 'cloud' then to see if it pulls my music seemlessly!  No doubt annoying the hell out of him with my taste at the same time!  Win/Win!!

Happy Christmas all!

I dont see the point - You can wirelessly stream your songs from home for free using Audiogalaxy and in high quality.