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I then copied my music from my known-good, local iTunes library into my new, completely empty iTunes library. Once it did, I turned off iTunes Match in the new library. After about 20 minutes, the iPad showed no music. I use iTunes Match on my iOS devices, so I erased all my local music on my my iPad and left it awake on my desk to keep up with what iTunes Match was doing. It took a little while for iCloud to notice all my music was gone. I hit Select All and delete, removing the files from iCloud. This displayed my music collection as iCloud sees it. With this new, empty library, I logged into iTunes Match. I started by launching iTunes from the Dock with the Option key held down, which let me create a new iTunes library. However, iTunes Match can be tricked into being reset. There’s no toggle labeled “Reset iTunes Match” anywhere. Like every other cloud service Apple offers, there’s no man-behind-the-curtain preference pane to reset things. I would straighten out an artist just to watch iTunes Match sync and change it back. However, I wasn’t able to get iTunes Match to see correct data if manually changed. Really, the system worked just as it should have: iTunes detected a change in my library and synced it across my devices. I should point out that this isn’t iTunes Match’s fault. I couldn’t nuke the music from the home library with iTunes Match-supplied files - or files from my notebook - because the service had spread the bad metadata around my little ecosystem of pain. I had some files missing, and others with bad metadata all of a sudden. However, it came to light this weekend that the copying of my iTunes library hadn’t gone smoothly. (It works shockingly well now that I read that sentence back.) The Mac mini is running the iTunes application, pulling the files via SMB2 over Ethernet. Now, my iTunes library resides on the NAS on its own share. That was fine until a couple of weeks ago, when I upgraded to a NAS and put my 2-disk RAID out to pasture.

Itunes match data usage download#

I can download what I want to my laptop, or delete something I don’t, all without affecting the home library directly. Even though it sports a 512 GB SSD, I don’t want to sacrifice disk space to music I’m not going to listen to, so I use iTunes Match to keep the two libraries connected.

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My main computer isn’t the Mac mini, however, but a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. My iTunes library is quite large, so until a couple of weeks ago, the files reside on a RAID connected to my home Mac mini. I’ve used iTunes Match for quite a while now because my music setup is fiddly.