![]() (One person in our experimentation did successfully get a ripped copy of the song from a Beatles box set to match successfully.) We’ve found numerous examples of other songs from all sorts of artists with the same issue: For a given album, some tracks will match and others won’t. So, Beatles fans, if you check your Abbey Road album in iTunes, you may well note that every track is listed as Matched save for one: “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window.” We’re not psychic rather, we’ve simply noted across various Macworld editors and friends that-for reasons unknown-that track almost never matches properly unless you bought it from the iTunes Store. We believe the issue lies on Apple’s end. The Beatles’s She Came In Through The Bathroom Window just won’t match in our testing. When iTunes Match can’t match your song, that song gets uploaded to your iTunes Match cloud storage instead. When iTunes Match can find a copy of your song on Apple’s servers, it doesn’t bother uploading the song file Apple already has a clean, well-encoded copy available. Songs that are uploaded instead of matched may not be your fault Use Jason Snell’s method for downloading Apple’s 256-kbps version of the song.) But iTunes Match will look at the new track and see a better bit-rate, and will then make the converted track eligible for matching.Ĭontrol-click the new version of the track, choose Add to iCloud, and then delete the older version. This alone won’t improve the quality of the song: It’s a bit like using your DSLR camera to take a photograph of a Polaroid picture. (If you’ve tweaked iTunes’s importing settings, that option may read differently verify your settings in Preferences -> General -> Import Settings.) iTunes will re-encode the selected tracks with a higher bit-rate. Re-encoding songs with lower bit-rates makes them suddenly eligible for iTunes Match matching.Ĭontrol-click (or right-click) on the offending song(s) in question, and choose Create AAC Version from the contextual menu that appears. We did, however, come across a workaround for getting the service to match poorly-encoded tunes. (You can find your tracks that iTunes Match won’t match by creating a Smart Playlist where iCloud Status is Ineligible and Media Kind is Music.) We haven’t found any tricks to start getting iTunes Match to match songs that are shorter than five seconds-though luckily there aren’t too many of those. I found about 20 tracks in my library that were encoded at laughably low rates each was marked Not Eligible. ITunes Match won’t match very short songs, and it won’t match songs encoded with very low bit-rates. Some songs aren’t eligible for iTunes Match, but there is a workaround ![]()
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