I think it is possible it gets uploaded if it's not already in Apple's library. I am not positive on this so hopefully someone who can speak better will chime in. Century Link is DSL I believe so probably something like 256K to 1 megabit up and maybe 1.5 to 6 down. Just a guess. On Oct 14, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Desi Noller <desi.noller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > I wondered about that! We are with CenturyLink which used to be Qwest. I > don't remember what our upload channel speed is, but I suspect you may be > right. The first 3,000+ songs went quite quickly though, so I'm a little > stumped as to why these last 700+ songs are taking such a long time. I do > have quite a bit of music that is probably not considered to be in the > popular music realm though. > > Desi > > > > On Oct 14, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> One thing to remember is with 99% of the consumer home internet connections >> the up channel or channel facing the internet from your home is much smaller >> than the down channel. For example, on Comcast, you might have 100 megabits >> of service in the down direction but you only have 10 up so as a result you >> only have a tenth of the bandwidth available in the direction your >> interested in. Now also remember that Apple isn't uploading your music, I >> think they are scanning the disk, finding music that matches and then >> referencing a pointer to their copy, not uploading your copy. I'm not sure >> what they send on the wire but it could be limited by this reduced size >> channel. If you detail what provider and service you have I might be able >> to get specific for your case. >> >> Just my guess >> >> >> On Oct 14, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Desi Noller <desi.noller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Good Morning Everyone, >>> >>> Have any of you had experience with uploading a large number of songs into >>> iTunes Match? I did discover that there were apparently around 732 songs >>> that had not been uploaded from my iTunes library. Friday night I turned >>> off my energy saving preferences so that my iMac would not go to sleep and >>> left my computer on with iTunes open overnight. When my husband passed my >>> computer first thing in the morning, he discovered an error message on my >>> screen which basically said that the connection had been lost. At that >>> point, I still had 584 songs to upload. I had not thought about the fact >>> that my computer was working wirelessly, so, yesterday afternoon, when I >>> had time to get back to this project, I again made sure that my energy >>> saving preferences were turned off, and I plugged in my ethernet cable. >>> That was at about 2:30 in the afternoon. At 9:00 last night, I returned to >>> my iMac to discover that I still had 433 songs to go. My computer was >>> extremely hot, perhaps because it hadn't gone to sleep in all those hours, >>> so I quit iTunes and shut the computer down overnight. I now have iTunes >>> open again, and iTunes Match is slowly cranking away. Has anyone had a >>> similar experience with getting iTunes Match all set up? I am just >>> extremely surprised that it is taking so long! I called Apple yesterday, >>> and they say everything is fine on their end. Any thoughts from anyone out >>> there in Mac4theblind land? :) >>> >>> Desi************ >>> >>> >>> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >>> >>> >>> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >>> their list subscription is: >>> >>> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >>> >>> The list archive is located at >>> >>> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >>> >>> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >>> >>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >> >> ************ >> >> >> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >> >> >> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >> their list subscription is: >> >> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >> >> The list archive is located at >> >> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >> >> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >> >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx