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发帖数: 5763 | 1 Posted this last night in a different thread, but it might help here too.
Been working with Match for a few weeks and thought I would post a FAQ type
response here to what I see people asking over and over again.
1. When you enable Match it goes through a three step process. Analyzing
your library, matching songs, uploading non-matched content. It does this
for your whole library. You can't choose to exclude songs other than taking
them out of your library.
2. If a song is matched, it becomes available to download in 256K AAC. If a
song is not matched it is copied in its current format and bit rate up to
320K. If the file is Lossless however, it is converted (presumably by your
computer) to a 256k AAC file and then uploaded.
3. Nothing happens to your local music when you run match. If you have a
lower quality song that was matched you can remove it from your local
library and then replace it with the 256k version. What happens is you
delete the song, but the entry in iTunes stays, but a little cloud now shows
up in a newly added column that shows you that you have a song that is in
the cloud but not in your library. You can click on the cloud and it will
download it to your local library, where again it is now permanently yours
at the higher bit rate.
4. Match uses your meta-data. If you in an anal-retentive fashion have made
lots of custom edits to your files, that is what gets copied to the cloud.
Even if you replace your songs with the upgraded versions you keep your
previous metal-data.
5. Your limit is 25,000 songs and purchased from iTunes don't count, but
matched does. Again if you have personal recordings etc. they won't match (
obviously) but will be copied to the cloud in their current format (see
above for Lossless exception)
6. Songs below 100k (I couldn't tell if it was below 128K since I don't have
any at 100k) are listed as ineligible and nothing happens with them.
7. iTunes runs match on any new material that is added. I.e. when you rip a
new album it is matched or copied to the cloud depending on how the match
worked. Also, when you change meta-data, it immediately moves that meta-data
to the cloud. So, if you correct a name on your iMac, it fixes the name in
match. However, if you already had it downloaded on your phone, it would not
be changed. But if you delete if from your phone and download it again you
would see the new information.
8. iTunes match is not an amnesty program. Because there is no way to prove
that matched songs came from a legitimate source, you can't claim you "own"
the songs simply because you have a matched version. The RIAA might still
prove that your IP address downloaded a file and sue you. Also, since meta-
data is preserved if there is a comment like "ripped by mega-thief" it's
still going to be there, unless you clean it manually. This does reduce the
likelihood that they could prove it was illegally obtained because it had
say a specific bit-sum, but it was never a crime to be in possession of
files if it couldn't be proven that you up or downloaded it. So, be aware,
this does little to protect you from the RIAA.
9. You have reasonable control to get songs off the cloud that you don't
want there, but if you keep it in any iTunes library that has match enabled,
it will re-upload it when you update the library.
10. I still have a good number of non-obscure albums that end up with 9 out
of 10 songs matching. So, when I download to my phone I end up with 9 256K
AAC songs and 1 128k MP3. I don't like that.
There are probably more things that people are asking, but hopefully this
helps relive some of the FUD about match. |
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