Sams Teach Yourself iTunes Match in 10 Minutes

Lesson 2. Upgrading Your iTunes Library and Fine-Tuning Your Matches

In this lesson, you learn to create special Smart Playlists to find songs that are matched, songs that are ineligible, songs that are uploaded, and songs with Match errors. You also learn to update tracks with lower bit rates that iTunes Match claims it can’t match to fool it into doing so, weed out Match-found duplicates, and remove songs that you don’t want in the cloud (or anywhere else).

Upgrading Your Matched Tracks

You can start reading the tutorials in this chapter before iTunes Match finishes its initial scan through your music library, if you’re eager. But you must wait until iTunes Match is finished working through your music before you actually start following these ...