These two threads delve a little deeper into how iTunes Match works:

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elephant wrote:

These two threads delve a little deeper into how iTunes Match works:

 

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Wait ... so were you able to get the BeoMaster 5 to see iTunes match music?  I was going to tinker with this some time this week but it sounds like you may have beat me to it!

Alex wrote:

Wait ... so were you able to get the BeoMaster 5 to see iTunes match music?  I was going to tinker with this some time this week but it sounds like you may have beat me to it!

No. I was just intersted in the possiblity of using iTunes Match to clean up tags and cover art in preparation for transfer to the BeoMaster 5. However, it doesn't clean up the tags and improve cover art. It only improves lesser quality music files where appropriate.

I used the iTunes match on my entire library and it proved to be a disaster.  It is supposed to use the artwork that is in my library and not change anything.  Very wrong!  For many albums, there was no artwork on albums in the cloud and on several, the artwork was changed.  I expect Apple will fix all the problems in time but for now, I turned off the match service.  Most of my albums are ripped from CDs.  I spent a lot of time putting in the artwork and most of the metadata.

The cloud functions work well for email and iPhoto on my Macs and iPhones.  There are still some things about the cloud I don't like but it mostly works.

Fortunately, I didn't encounter any of those problems. It kept all of my original artwork and tags. However, it took a day and a half to complete. It looks like it matched about 90% of my music. I can definitely see how this would improve my music on the BeoSound 5. Most of my CD rips were ripped many years ago at only 128 kbps. I've been wanting for some time now to completely re-load all of my music onto the BeoMaster 5. As early buyers of the BeoSound 5 remember, the early version of BeoConnect just dumped the entire music library onto the BeoMaster 5 hard drive without organizing it into artist and album folders. The result was a horrible mess that can cause problems because there are so many (tens of thousands) files in one directory.

I was following the DAC discussion on another thread which lead me to a site where this was their (current) top story/review !

elephant wrote:

I was following the DAC discussion on another thread which lead me to a site where this was their (current) top story/review !

 

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The site reference did contain a warning that it is a rabbit warren that you can get lost in 😂

elephant, That is a terrific article.  It summarizes very well many of the problems.  I learned from the article why some of my albums didn't match properly.  The albums are classical music I purchased in France because they were not available in the US.  I think B&O should wait to see what happens before they support anything like this on Beosound 5.  Amazon and Google have similar music services that are good also.

Unfortunately I am one of those who will buy or try any Apple product.  iTunes match needs more work.  I don't expect much soon due to the fact that Apple personnel in Cupertino will have a lot of time off due to the upcoming US holidays.

I just discovered that on the iPad/iPhone BeoPlayer app, the entire music library from the iCloud now shows up and is completely playable from within the BeoPlayer app. Complete with cover art.