iTunes Match e redownloaded tracks, what about the quality? |
iTunes Match e redownloaded tracks, what about the quality? |
 May 16 2012, 12:40
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Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: 8-November 02 From: Italy Member No.: 3728  |
Guys, i subscribed iTunes Match a month ago and i'm very happy with this service. I have all my music ripped and transcode in mp3 (vbr) except for a folder, the MISC one. In there, i put during the years lots of single mp3 songs that are very old and the quality is so bad (128,160....). So, i maybe can delete the song and redownload the AAC version of it but i was thinking: is this a true AAC version or maybe a bad transcode? I want to say, how the hell iTunes in maybe 10 second can find, download the high quality song to your mac and maintain the same name and tags? It's not strange? Did some of you made some quality test?
I'm afraid to delete all these songs and discover maybe that iTunes return me shit** version. |
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May 16 2012, 13:22
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 Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 761 Joined: 12-March 05 From: Kiel, Germany Member No.: 20561 |
As far as I know about iTunes Match, it identifies your audio files, and unlocks the respective audio track in your iTunes account. So you will get whatever version iTunes has of the track. The quality is as good as other iTunes tracks. Since I never used iTunes and/or Macth I cannot say anything about if or how iTunes will maintain metadata. Though it is hardly black magic to do so, essentially it will just copy over the metadata from the old file to the new one.
This post has been edited by Kohlrabi: May 16 2012, 13:22 -------------------- Audiophiles live in constant fear of jitter.
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Jedi82 iTunes Match e redownloaded tracks, what about the quality? May 16 2012, 12:40
RobertoDomenico iTunes Match will retain your custom tags May 16 2012, 15:25 Engelsstaub OP: You will easily be able to tell if iTunes ret... May 16 2012, 15:29 Jedi82 So, i red a lot about the service and (i think) un... May 17 2012, 22:26 kornchild2002 Your question was answered but I will take a stab ... May 18 2012, 00:16 Jedi82 exact, thanks!!!! So, about my mis... May 18 2012, 08:41 Engelsstaub I'm not understanding: are you A. skeptical th... May 18 2012, 20:32 Jedi82 I'm the B :-) so ok, i will delete The old and... May 18 2012, 22:21 kornchild2002 Just know that iTunes Match is not perfect. Out o... May 19 2012, 00:22
Engelsstaub QUOTE (kornchild2002 @ May 18 2012, 18:22... May 19 2012, 03:23 kornchild2002 I've tried about 20 times for each track. I e... May 19 2012, 19:46 |
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