Uploading 3000 songs to iTunes Match that have metadata changes

I am thinking of subscribing to iTunes Match.

My entire iTunes library consists of 3000 songs from existing downloaded mp3 tracks or personal CD's where I have made metadata and album artwork changes to each and every track-eg Album Title, Genre, Artist details and a change in artwork. There will be no matches of my library when iTunes attempts to actually "match"

Will iTunes Match have any issues when uploading these 3000 songs please. I just want my library in the cloud as originally downloaded and compiled , with the metadata changes I inputted.

Is this what will happen during the upload plse

Thanks

iMac 21.5″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Mar 14, 2025 09:30 AM

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turingtest2

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Mar 14, 2025 10:19 AM in response to Foxy Jukebox

My understanding is that the matching process uses audio fingerprints, not metadata matching. I would recommend taking a full backup of your library on an external drive before enabling iTunes Match, just in case. If you have any purchases from the iTunes Store where you have customised the metadata I would recommend hiding these items from your purchase history as Music may in some cases resurface the original store metadata. That shouldn't be an issue with matched/uploaded content.

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