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Upgrade Your Low Quality Tracks With iTunes Match
Mar 11, 2025
How to use iTunes match to upgrade your audio.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can upgrade your low quality and
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low bit rate songs to lossless quality
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songs using iTunes Match iTunes Match is
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very easy to sign up for you can do it
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right within iTunes and it's a $24.99
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yearly subscription service and you can
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see I've subscribed and all I have to do
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is hit add this computer I'm going to
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click that and then it's going to ask me
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to sign in with my password so now you
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can see it's gathering information about
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my iTunes library after that it's going
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to match my music with songs in the
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iTunes store and then upload remaining
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songs and artwork and this is a process
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it might take a little while to run I
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don't have a huge iTunes library so it
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probably won't take forever uh but it
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probably will be a little bit lengthy so
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I'll come back when it's finished so
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iTunes Match has now finished uploading
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the rest of my iTunes library and
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finishing everything up with iCloud and
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iTunes Match and you can see here now
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that I can access iCloud from an iPhone
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or iPad or an iPad touch that is running
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iOS 5 and all I have to do is turn turn
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on iTunes Match in the settings app on
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the iOS device so I can click
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done so now on iTunes you'll see this
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new little Cloud button right up here in
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the top bar and this will show any songs
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that are not downloaded to your library
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so let's just say I delete a song from
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my iTunes library and remove it and move
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it to trash you can see the little Cloud
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button shows up right next to it and I
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can click the little Cloud button and
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download it right to my Mac and it only
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takes a little bit of time and you can
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see it's downloaded right there now as
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you may know about iTunes match your
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music is by default 256 kilobits per
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second and that is with all tracks with
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iTunes Match now here's what the cool
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thing is you can theoretically upgrade
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all of your music with iTunes Match from
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any low bit rate to a nice 256 kiloby so
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the way you can see your your bit rate
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in iTunes is right click on your little
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information bar right here and now
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you're going to see this list of all
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these different columns you can add and
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delete from iTunes so if I select bit
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rate you'll see this new column here
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and it shows me the bit rate of each
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song so I have a lower bit rate song
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here and then I have two higher bit rate
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songs so now you can see have a song
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Here selected and if I look at the bit
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rate it's only 96 kilobits which is
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relatively low and not very high quality
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track so as long as this track has been
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identified in the iTunes Store and
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wasn't a track that was uploaded I can
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just delete the track from my iTunes
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library the track will stay there it'll
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just show the little Cloud download
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button right next to it but just to be
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safe before you delete any tracks from
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your iTunes library I just like to drag
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it to the desktop to make a copy of it I
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can always bring it back into iTunes
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just in case it wasn't a file that
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iTunes Match had identified and in
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instead just uploaded because then you
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just don't get the track back so I just
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right click on this and I can click
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delete now note again that this track
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was 96 kilobits so I'm G to hit remove
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and I'm just going to hit move the trash
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and now you can see it shows the little
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Cloud download button right here so if I
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click download it's going to start
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downloading and it's going to take you
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know a few seconds it's not a huge file
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so it'll finish up in about 31 seconds
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and I'll be back then now you can see
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that the track has redownloaded and if
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we look at the bit rate column look at
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that 256 kilobits and this is the full
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quality track that you'd get right over
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iTunes so let's say you ripped a CD in
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low quality and all your tracks are
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iTunes in a low quality and assuming
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iTunes Match identify the tracks you'll
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now be able to just delete the tracks
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and redownload them in the full quality
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so once again like I've stated this
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doesn't work with tracks that have
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uploaded to iTunes match those will
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disappear from your iTunes library Al
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together so you have to kind of be a
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little careful about what you delete and
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it's always good to like save your files
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but you can see here I've just
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transferred a 96 kilobit track into 256
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kilobits and I can do do this with
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theoretically every song I have just by
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subscribing to iTunes match so there's
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how you can use iTunes Match to upgrade
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your lowquality audio tracks in iTunes
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to a higher quality track just by
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subscribing to iTunes Match and this bit
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rate column is very handy column that
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you can use to decide which tracks you
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want to replace with the higher quality
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ones and which ones you'll want to leave
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uh for example if I delete this track
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I'm not going to be able to download it
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in any higher quality it'll probably
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actually downgrade to 256 kilobits per
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second so I wouldn't really want to do
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that cuz this is a 320 kilobit per
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second track so like always if you have
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anything that you'd like to see me do a
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how-to on make sure to send me an email
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I hope you found this video useful and
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thank you for watching
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