OK, I am about two drinks away from saying ITunes match is a piece of sh**! I am running the most recent version of IOS 7, and my ITunes running on OSX 10.9 Mavericks is totally 100% up to date as well. I’m using an IPhone 5, not a 5S or 5C, just the original IPhone 5. Anyway, I had somewhere in the neighborhood of about 4000 songs in my ITunes match. I removed every one of them from my local Macintosh HD, as well as then going back and also removing them from my Itunes Match ICloud. Mainly, I have these tracks all on physical CD media, so I am not losing anything. I’m trying to revamp my library for the holidays and basically only have my Christmas music imported. Thing is, it’s going to be easier to do this over ITunes match, being that I have multiple IOS devices plus, I have 3 mac computers: two macbooks, and one mac mini. Yes, they’re all on Mavericks, and yes, they all are running the most recent version of ITunes. Trust me, I’m not stupid, I did verify this very thoroughly. Remember, I’m quite an advanced IOS and OSX user, so believe me, that was one of the very bare first things I checked to be sure of. And yes, I ran software update on all devices both OSX and IOS just to be sure. Trust me, everything’s totally up to date.
Well, after deleting all my music both locally, and from the coud, I noticed that though not on any of my mac computers, on both my IOS devices, my IPhone 5, and my IPad 4, I keep seeing this damn Kenny G track popping up which I don’t even remember ever importing. It’s not showing up in my purchase history, so undoubtedly, it’s something that got ripped from one of his CD’s that Mom and I both own. I don’t really even like his stuff, so God knows how it got there! Anyway, I deleted it from my IOS devices with a one finger flick down whilst in the actions rotor. Once gone, I closed the music app from the apps switcher, and then I reopened it and went to the artists tab. Instead of seeing nothing was there, guess what! You guessed it partna. There came that stupid Kenny G track down again! At this point, I’m saying something that totally would get me banned from this list permanently if I said it or even abbrieviated it. Trust me, it wasn’t what the hell! We’ll just say, change the last word to something else. LOL! So, I look on my mac mini, which may I remind you again, I’d deleted all music locally from, and also deleted everything from ICloud originally from that system. I search locally, and also in the cloud for Kenny G. Nothing at all pops up! Zilch! At this time, I’m totally baffled! I look in the store menu of the menu bar under view my account… and sure enough, it’s signed in with the correct apple ID, the same one with the ITunes Match subscription. Just out of a hunch, I sign out, and back in. I even went so far as to deauthorize my computer, then reauthorize it again. I then, after doing so, went to the store menu, and to update ITunes match. Once done, I closed the music app on my IPhone from the app switcher, reopened it, double tapped on artists, and boom! There’s Kenny G again! I think he wants to merry my IPhone! LOL, or stalk it if nothing else. At anyrate, I’m going: I’ll be ** starred. So, I go back to the mac mini, and search for Kenny G. It ain’t there! I look again on my phone, it’s there. I update match again from the mini, then look at my phone. It’s still showing up. OK, you think this is weird, you ain’t heard nothing! yet! Then, I go to my macbook Pro. I pop open ITunes, delete the whole library locally, then turn match on, only after doing so. It analyzes everything, sees nothing is locally available to put in the cloud, then shows nothing in my library locally or remotely. I for good measure go to the store menu then update match. Again, nothing afterward shows up. So now, I’m thinking, good! Maybe that killed that KG track. Nope? I go back to my phone? and, boom! There’s not only! now that Kenny G track, but now it’s showing all 4 freaking thousand! of my tracks I previously deleted from the cloud, yet, my macs show nothing! Not even the Kenny G. So, on my phone, I sign out of Match, I sign out of ITunes sharing, and, even more, I sign out of the ITunes Store. I then turn off ITunes Match, and set show all music under settings, music, to off. I then closed music from the app switcher, closed settings as well, and rebooted my phone. I don’t mean the home/sleep keys, I mean I literally powered it off, waited about 30 seconds, then powered it back on. Oh by the way, no, before you ask, none of my devices are jailbroken, and God kill me dead the day I think about doing so! I’m sorry, but I highly! and I mean highyly! object to doing that, but that’s for another post altogether. Anyway, after rebooting, I signed back into the ITunes store, then I signed back into ITunes sharing, and finally, I then turned on ITunes Match, and finally last but not least, turned show all music back to on. I then opened up the music app. It still shows all 4 something odd thousand tracks! Yet, my computers show nothing! So, just to see if things really were outta whack, I imported the Christmas album by Brad Paisley, (great! great! album by the way if you’ve not heard it, would highly! recommend it!) and I did this by ripping directly from my physical store bought CD. This wasn’t even a burned copy. It was the physical original media. That imported flawlessly on my mac mini. I then went to the store menu, and to update ITunes Match, just in case it didn’t auto refresh. I’ve found that if I don’t do that, it’s not pushing new imported content to the cloud, unless it’s physically bought from the ITunes store directly. So once this was done, I looked on my mini. The only album that showed was the Brad Paisley disc. That’s correct. That’s what it should have done. I then deleted it from my local library, and also killed the files from my trash. I figured, well, it’s in the cloud, so no reason to take hard disk space. I then went to my macbook pro, where the disc wasn’t physically insertted nor imported to start with. I look in my albums view under music, and sure enough. No Kenny G, no other 4 thousand tracks, however, Brad Paisley was sitting there plain as could be, and played perfectly. I then went to my phone and my IPad both. Both of them show all 4 thousand tracks including Kenny G, but guess what? On neither device do I see Brad Paisley. I finally decided to look on my other white 13 inch macbook, which hasn’t been in the equasion until now. So, I sign into my ITunes account, and authorize the machine, as frankly, on that white macbook, I really don’t ever use ITunes. Anyway, I then turned on Match. Boom! Nothing popped up except Brad Paisley. Just like it should do! Needless to say, I’m at a loss! Back about two years ago when Match first was launched to the public, I jumped right on board, and it worked great! Well after about a year, things started screwing up left and right like this, so I didn’t renew my subscription. Well, now, when I did renew it, as I needed to do so due to certain circumstances of making things more convenient, I see not only is it still buggy, but it’s way the heck worse! I’m sorry, but unless we all can try to figure out maybe something I’m missing, which I highly doubt, I’m about ready to throw this subscription away and tell Apple where they frankly can stick that 24 bucks I spent. Sorry to sound so mean and maybe very harsh in this message, but come on! This is ridiculous! Chris. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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