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AT&T + iTunes Match = Bummer (And a Workaround)
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Maybe I don't understand what you're doing, but it works great for me, mostly.
1) Subscribe to Match, and iTunes matches or uploads everything.
2) Now, there is no syncing of music between your iPhone and iTunes. In iTunes, it should say "iTunes Match is on" under the music tab when you look at the iPhone.
3) Simply open the music app on the iPhone, and hit download (the cloud icon with the down arrow) on anything and it'll be downloaded to your phone. Do this before you leave the house; pretend you are syncing with iTunes if you have to.
4) Plugging into iTunes should not delete anything. At least not anything you've downloaded this way. This is the thing I don't understand about your experience. Maybe wipe all the music from the phone and fresh with (1)?
Also, in Settings/Music you can make the phone show you only the music that's actually downloaded to it, so you don't have to see your whole library at once.
There is one, new, minor annoyance. You used to be able to delete shit on the phone too, so you could control what space is used for what and exactly what was on the phone. Now you can't, in iOS 6. It will just delete the things you haven't played in the longest time if you happen to run out of space.
1) Subscribe to Match, and iTunes matches or uploads everything.
2) Now, there is no syncing of music between your iPhone and iTunes. In iTunes, it should say "iTunes Match is on" under the music tab when you look at the iPhone.
3) Simply open the music app on the iPhone, and hit download (the cloud icon with the down arrow) on anything and it'll be downloaded to your phone. Do this before you leave the house; pretend you are syncing with iTunes if you have to.
4) Plugging into iTunes should not delete anything. At least not anything you've downloaded this way. This is the thing I don't understand about your experience. Maybe wipe all the music from the phone and fresh with (1)?
Also, in Settings/Music you can make the phone show you only the music that's actually downloaded to it, so you don't have to see your whole library at once.
There is one, new, minor annoyance. You used to be able to delete shit on the phone too, so you could control what space is used for what and exactly what was on the phone. Now you can't, in iOS 6. It will just delete the things you haven't played in the longest time if you happen to run out of space.
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BTW if you want to start fresh on the device, Settings/General/Usage/Music and you can delete all the local music in one click.
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To add to senor chris @2, if you've got media on your phone that you retrieved through its built in iTunes or 'app' stores, you can explicitly transfer those to your desktop machine by right-clicking the device's icon in iTunes (desktop) and selecting 'transfer purchases'.
I've got things working reasonably well on my pad and phone - and I even have two different desktop machines I'm syncing them out with, one at home and one at work. I got that to function by taking the HD containing my library from home, copying it onto my library at work, and proceeding as normal.
I don't think I've seen Match (or iTunes) delete music from my device in a very long time.
Also, senor chris - I believe if you turn off Match on your iPhone, you can then delete songs manually. (Might take a restart after you do.)
There are definitely some problems to shake out with iTunes, syncing, and Match, though. No argument there.
I've got things working reasonably well on my pad and phone - and I even have two different desktop machines I'm syncing them out with, one at home and one at work. I got that to function by taking the HD containing my library from home, copying it onto my library at work, and proceeding as normal.
I don't think I've seen Match (or iTunes) delete music from my device in a very long time.
Also, senor chris - I believe if you turn off Match on your iPhone, you can then delete songs manually. (Might take a restart after you do.)
There are definitely some problems to shake out with iTunes, syncing, and Match, though. No argument there.
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Why do you need to synch at all with your computer? I never synch my phone with my computer. No problems.
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I've been wondering about how well this works as I have way too much music on my computer (I've been compressing it down to 128kbps to put on my 160g iPod, which is now full). I have an iPhone and am on Verizon with unlimited data, so this seemed intriguing...
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yeah. I'm not sure that I understand the issue -- it sounds like maybe iTunes Match just isn't turned on for your iPhone?
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@ bunnypuncher: If you've got Verizon and unlimited bandwidth, I'd say go for it. To everyone else: Basically, streaming your biz on AT&T sucks, unless you've downloaded it first. Downloading it requires data usage. I sync my phone for calendar/reminders purposes. iTunes should have have an option that allows you to easily decide what music you want to sync, not what music you don't want to sync. I just worked a really long day, and I'm pretty sure I lost the ability to read. Good night.
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