{"id":5381,"date":"2011-11-14T16:43:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T00:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:56:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:56:36","slug":"you-cant-use-itunes-match-if-your-library-contains-more-than-25000-songs-not-purchased-from-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/you-cant-use-itunes-match-if-your-library-contains-more-than-25000-songs-not-purchased-from-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can't Use iTunes Match if Your Library Contains More Than 25,000 Songs Not Purchased from iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was really excited today that I could finally download and signup for iTunes Match, the cloud music service I really had hoped to like. Well that love didn’t last long.<\/p>\n

I clicked the Turn On iTunes Match link and clicked Subscribe that I will spend $25 and I was immediately greeted with a pop-up alert telling me my library has more than 25,000 songs not purchased from iTunes so I can’t use it.<\/p>\n

\"Apple<\/a><\/p>\n

What!? Somebody forgot to mention this when the service was announced.<\/p>\n

Because I am a HUGE music lover and have a very large collection; 1000s of CDs that over the years I ripped and added to my library I am not allowed to use iTunes Match. Factor in music I bought from sites such as; Amazon.com, Bandcamp, Nimbit and many band websites, this is just a huge FAIL! What do they think I should do, delete my music so I can use iTunes Match? Not gonna happen! I guess this has pretty much made the decision that I will be using something like Rdio or Spotify now.<\/p>\n

No other explanation, no other options… just no you can’t use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was really excited today that I could finally download and signup for iTunes Match, the cloud music service I really had hoped to like. Well that love didn’t last long. I clicked the Turn On iTunes Match link and clicked Subscribe that I will spend $25 and I was immediately greeted with a pop-up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[153,12],"tags":[1228,46,1229,1230,830,980],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-2","category-music-marketing-2","tag-000-songs","tag-apple","tag-itunes-match","tag-library-contains-more-than-25","tag-rdio","tag-spotify"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11570,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}