Thanks all, I took the phone at its word when it said that all contents would be erased when I enabled iTunes Match, so I didn't expect that in fact a lot of my music is still there. The batch download process is indeed really unstable. Knowing the download button exists beside tracks in the cloud does clear up quite a bit. I appreciate the speedy responses. Jonathan
_____ From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jana Schroeder Sent: Friday, 22 June 2012 2:34 p.m. To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Accessibility of iTunes Match in iOS Hi, jonathan, If a track has not been downloaded onto your phone, the title of the track will be followed by "Download from iCloud." If you double tap on the "download" link, it will download the track. If a song is not followed by "download from iCloud," then you know it is on your phone. HTH, Jana From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:15 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Accessibility of iTunes Match in iOS 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. -- 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.
