[mac4theblind] Re: iTunes Match Again
- From: Desi Noller <desi.noller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:33:58 -0700
Hi Again Scott,
Yes, I think you're right. I think this music is actually being uploaded.
CenturyLink is DSL, so that's probably why it's taking so long!
Desi
On Oct 14, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Scott Granados <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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? :)
>>>>
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