Comments on: iOS 6 upgrades iTunes Match for streaming music

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:54:00 +0000

Actually iOS 6 has totally broken iTunes Match. There is now no way to download individual songs (without clumsy workarounds like setting up a new playlist containing just the song you want), and no way to delete locally stored content (without having to go to Settings, turn Match off, then go back to the Music app, then delete). Also there is no easy way to see what is on your device and what will be trying to stream – totally useless if you don’t have 3G or don’t want to eat through your data limit in an hour or two! Apple seem to assume everyone lives in some kind of magical word where WiFi is everywhere and nobody has to pay for data. What was wrong with the old system where the cloud symbol shows what you can download?

By: DigitlEvolution

DigitlEvolution — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:38:00 +0000

This is not true. It is still downloading all the music as it is playing. Three ways to demonstrate this; the number of a songs on your device (listed under settings-general-about) will increase as you listen to music. Also, songs you have played will play again while in airplane mode. And third, if you listen to all your songs by an artist, the seemingly optional “download all” iCloud button that is under the album art will vanish, indicating that all the songs have been downloaded.

By: Martin Busek

Martin Busek — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:14:00 +0000

It’s not new, I was streaming music from iCloud in iOS 5 already. The only news is, that you can hide icloud music… if you want

By: Mitch Hale

Mitch Hale — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:50:00 +0000

It would be nice if Apple would fix what’s broken in iTunes Match before branching out to additional features. If you use Match and it “matches” songs you had previously ripped from CD or downloaded from a non-iTunes service/site (again, “Matched”, not “Purchased” or “Uploaded”) it will replace explicit songs with clean/edited version that are available. I have seen this on numerous hip-hop and rock songs and albums. They have been aware of this since Nov/Dec ’11 with no real action. This is getting old…