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Tried to upload music and received this hilarious message: http://yfrog.com/ocygcp http://yfrog.com/ocygcp After trying a 2nd time through the non-wizard inter

Tried to upload music and received this hilarious message: http://yfrog.com/ocygcp http://yfrog.com/ocygcp After trying a 2nd time through the non-wizard interface, it turns out all 72 of my songs on this machine are iTunes DRM'd. Humph.

blinkingled 15y ago
I am going through a painful process of spending $25 on iTunes Match, waiting for it to complete matching, then finding the purchased DRM iTunes tracks, deleting them and re-downloading them so that I have DRM-free 256Kbps tracks. That was the cost of not pirating music.
- darrellsilver 15y ago
  Signed up for iTunes Match earlier this week... Most of the songs in my library are non-drm (mp3) and it still took about 18 hours to do steps 1 & 2 (indexing & ?) across 22k songs. Music is stored on a (slow) network attached drobo. The 5100 songs (25%? Crazy!) that aren't already up there are taking another 24 hours but I assume this is bandwidth dependent. Crucially, this is all happening in the background, hasn't required my intervention at all, doesn't disrupt using itunes, and once it started uploading everything that it didn't have to upload was immediately available on other devices. A pretty solid experience, IMO. Anyone know what happens when the library hits 25k songs???
  - gbhn 15y ago
    You probably know better than me, but I thought the 25k limit was for songs in the "uploaded" category (i.e. your 5100 songs). IOW, you would still be far from the limit.
    - darrellsilver 15y ago
      Fingers crossed! Wish I could just find some docs on this...
  - guywithabike 15y ago
    The matching process is disk I/O intensive, so it makes sense that it'd take a long time on a slow network-attached Drobo. 25k songs applies only to non-iTunes purchased songs. Songs purchased on iTunes don't apply to that limit.
baby 15y ago
Had a similar problem. Hopefully I haven't bought that many songs through iTunes. Redownloading them without DRM via zippyshare/mediafire/hulkshare...
nknight 15y ago
I take it you're not willing to pay the $0.30/track to upgrade to the 256kbps un-DRM'd music that's been available for years?
- fpgeek 15y ago
  Last time I checked, it looked like there were plenty of non-DRMed tracks that aren't (or at least weren't) eligible for upgrade. My wife stopped buying DRMed music as soon as it was possible and upgraded every DRMed track iTunes could find and we still discovered that about 5-10% of her tracks were DRMed when we did the great Amazon Cloud Drive upload.

blinkingled 15y ago

I am going through a painful process of spending $25 on iTunes Match, waiting for it to complete matching, then finding the purchased DRM iTunes tracks, deleting them and re-downloading them so that I have DRM-free 256Kbps tracks. That was the cost of not pirating music.

darrellsilver 15y ago
Signed up for iTunes Match earlier this week... Most of the songs in my library are non-drm (mp3) and it still took about 18 hours to do steps 1 & 2 (indexing & ?) across 22k songs. Music is stored on a (slow) network attached drobo. The 5100 songs (25%? Crazy!) that aren't already up there are taking another 24 hours but I assume this is bandwidth dependent. Crucially, this is all happening in the background, hasn't required my intervention at all, doesn't disrupt using itunes, and once it started uploading everything that it didn't have to upload was immediately available on other devices. A pretty solid experience, IMO. Anyone know what happens when the library hits 25k songs???
- gbhn 15y ago
  You probably know better than me, but I thought the 25k limit was for songs in the "uploaded" category (i.e. your 5100 songs). IOW, you would still be far from the limit.
  - darrellsilver 15y ago
    Fingers crossed! Wish I could just find some docs on this...
- guywithabike 15y ago
  The matching process is disk I/O intensive, so it makes sense that it'd take a long time on a slow network-attached Drobo. 25k songs applies only to non-iTunes purchased songs. Songs purchased on iTunes don't apply to that limit.

baby 15y ago

Had a similar problem. Hopefully I haven't bought that many songs through iTunes. Redownloading them without DRM via zippyshare/mediafire/hulkshare...

nknight 15y ago

I take it you're not willing to pay the $0.30/track to upgrade to the 256kbps un-DRM'd music that's been available for years?

fpgeek 15y ago
Last time I checked, it looked like there were plenty of non-DRMed tracks that aren't (or at least weren't) eligible for upgrade. My wife stopped buying DRMed music as soon as it was possible and upgraded every DRMed track iTunes could find and we still discovered that about 5-10% of her tracks were DRMed when we did the great Amazon Cloud Drive upload.