I'm afraid I don't think there's a workaround, and worse, there's not really a way to find out when batch downloads complete other than monitoring your storage under settings/general/usage, or alternatively hiding music that isn't on your phone as you described. You'll find that downloading many tracks at once doesn't always complete properly and it's sometimes necessary to hit that download button repeatedly to restart downloads - or of course, after you've used iTunes Match for some weeks while connected to the internet, tracks in the cloud will just download for you as you play them. Hardly a completely accessible solution, though.
Grant On 6/21/12, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > Hi all, well I bit the bullet this week and created a library in iTunes > that > was under 25000 of my own ripped tracks, so I could take advantage of > iTunes > Match. I've been ripping my music for 15 years now, so the idea of getting > nice fresh rips in 256K AAC really appeals to me, and I created a smart > playlist to replace all my rips with the AAC versions. I was super > impressed > that tracks I had digitised long ago from my vinyl collection were matched > with a nice clean digital copy in the cloud. Sweet. > > However, I hope I'm missing something, because otherwise, iTunes Match is > the first thing built into iOS that I don't think is particularly > accessible. > > Since I have a few 12/13 hour flights coming up, I've set up a couple of > playlists whose contents I want to download to my iPhone so I can hear them > when I don't have an Internet connection. I go into the Music app, locate > the playlist, and choose the Download All button at the bottom of the > screen. The phone gets really sluggish, but also, I find that there appears > to be no verbal indication about what songs are in the cloud, and what > songs > are stored on the phone. If you look in iTunes, you can go into the view > options and check the boxes so you are told very clearly what songs are > local, and what songs are not. And I believe that visually, a sighted > person > can see in iOS where a particular song is stored. > > I've sort of worked around this by starting the download, going into the > Settings for the Music App, and disabling show all music, so I only see > what > songs are on the phone, but that's not a perfect solution. Has anyone else > seen this and even better, found a work-around? > > Jonathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
