Back in June, Apple’s Eddy Cue promised that iTunes Match – Apple’s song matching service that syncs local music files to the iCloud for streaming anytime – would soon phase out its 25,000 track limit in favor of 100,000 tracks.
Sadly, we haven’t heard anything more about that since. But Apple might now be soft-launching the higher 100,000 track limit.
Kirk McElhearn has spotted that some iTunes users are beginning to see more than 25,000 tracks in their iTunes Match libraries:
Apple has increased the 25,000-track limit to iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library. The company has not made any announcements yet, but I have heard from several people who have finally been able to add more than 25,000 tracks to their iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library libraries.
Unfortunately, this bump doesn’t seem to be universal. Others are saying they still haven’t received the extended limit.
Either way, it looks like a new 100,000 hard limit is coming, to fulfill Eddy Cue’s promise that we’d all be able to stuff our iCloud libraries with more music by the end of the year. Happy Christmas!
Source: Kyle McElhearn
Via: iMore
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
5 responses to “Apple starts raising iTunes Match limit to 100,000 tracks”
I would like them to increase the file size per track. I download a variety of file types (24 bit, MP3, DSD, etc.), rip to AIFF from CD and I have a fair amount of tracks that have file sizes beyond the 200MB limit. Some songs are larger due to them being AIFF, 24 Bit, or are just very long songs or an actual concert and iTunes Match can’t match them due to file size limitations.
I also wish Apple would just support DSD and either convert to PCM for those without a DSD capable DAC, or those with a DSD capable DAC we can play them without having to purchase another application.
Also, I wish Apple would automatically change the Audio/MIDI settings when it senses various bit/sample rates.
I think Apple should buyout various music app related companies, take their technology and developers and create iTunes that can bet set to two different modes. Standard mode for the average consumer and then Advanced mode for the “audiophiles”. It should also be a great solution for both streaming/sharing music and video to a plethora of devices on WiFI, Bluetooth, over the network or direct connection so we can set up the ultimate music/video servers.
That’s completely unrealistic. Apple, and any other company for that matter, is never going to “match” files in your music library that are in anything other than MP3 or AAC. You certainly can’t think Apple is going to “match” some full concert file full of songs that it can’t otherwise identify.
Imagine if they did for a moment. You are aware you can drag pretty much any file into iTunes if you want to, right? What would stop people from putting pretty much any kind of file in there that they want to be able to access remotely, from home videos to bookkeeping ledgers? What you’re asking for is cloud storage, and there are plenty of options for that.
For cloud-based music, I’d be happy with 256 AAC and very happy with 320 AAC. If you’re an audiophile, you’re not going to rely on the cloud for serious listening — you’ll want a dedicated hard drive (and a good third-party player like Audirvana). But for non-serious listening, which is what I do most of the time, being able to access lossy versions of my songs via the cloud would be amazing.
Converting AIFF to ALAC would bring file size down significantly.
A shame Apple did not take the time to improve the family sharing experience with Apple Music/Itunes., and at least at FLAC support to Itunes as at least Windows 10 has native FLAC support and many digital sellers support this format , which is an open standard(Irony is apple open source SWIFT ) . If I buy a physical CD anyone in my house can listen to it on any device. I rip it, and then only 1 person can access it in ITunes even with family sharing enabled. Apple should allow sharing on non itunes purchased music, I would not mind if Apple imposed quality limits, so say the uploader can enjoy at lossless if(Flac or ALAC etc) but all other family members are limited to 256 AAC max.