“But when Apple introduced iTunes Match on Monday, my request to move my iTunes library to the cloud was immediately refused,” Kirk McElhearn writes for Macworld.com. “Although Apple had already announced that you could only store 25,000 songs using iTunes Match, I was surprised when iTunes informed me that, ‘Your library contains too many songs.’ The alert the program displayed told me that my library ‘must contain no more than 25,000 songs that were not purchased from the iTunes Store.'”
“I can certainly understand that Apple needs a limit to the amount of space that it’s willing to give you for the $25 yearly fee of iTunes Match,” McElhearn writes. “What I cannot understand, however, is that iTunes Match simply refuses to let those with large libraries sign up at all. It doesn’t let you choose what you put in the cloud, and you don’t get a screen allowing you to select specific artists, albums and/or genres, as you do when you sync an iPod. After all, given that Apple markets the iPod classic—that 40,000-song-carrying music player (at 128 kbps, that is)—to people like me, how can the company then turn around and say that I have too much music to use with this new pay service?”
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MacDailyNews Take: We expect that iTunes Match will evolve and address the needs of those with large media libraries.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
25,000 tracks x 3 minutes per track= 52 days of playing your music twenty four hours a day continuously.
Seriously, those with humongous libraries can’t possibly listen to all of it.
It’s hoarder mentality.
Just create another iTunes library. One for you, one for the cloud. I have many libraries. Christmas music is in another library since it seasonal.
I have more than 45 000 tracks, from nearly 2000 CD’s, collected over a number of years. My collection is still rising by 40 or more CD’s each year. That does not include the hundreds of hours of podcasts. Audiobooks can add hundreds of tracks/chapters.
With only 22 iTunes purchases so I am well outside the range covered. It looks like I will have to re rip the entire collection at the higher rate. Good job I started already.
“iTunes Match simply refuses to let those with large libraries sign up at all”
Why = RIAA, our Corporate Oligarchy pals. 😈
I’m not sure this is an evil RIAA issue. It may be that Apple wanted to start with a reasonable limit. They had to put some limit on the size, and maybe they’ll work this out later.
My guess is that well below 1% of iTunes account holders have a library over 25,000 tunes. I consider myself a big music fan and I even work in the music industry and my library has around 7000 tracks although a lot of them are classical music tunes that often last 10~20 minutes each.
Personally, I refuse to have songs and albums in my library just because I got ’em free or someone gave ’em to me. I sold an awful lot of CDs over the years that I knew I would never listen to again and never bothered ripping the songs to iTunes. So I suppose it isn’t that hard to accumulate 25,000 if one keeps *everything* that he or she has acquired, received, and stolen.
I dunno… Why keep stuff around that you know you’ll never listen to again? 80 years only adds up to 29,2000 days or so. Life is short. Why have junk taking up space that you have to flip through over and over again? Quality over quantity… I’m more than happy with the 25,000 tune limit. I know that I won’t get close to it.