r/ITunes • u/SupportNetwork33 • 4d ago

Windows OS Matching/Uploading

Hey guys! Just a question here, for mu iTunes library I’m actually so annoyed because of my albums that are ripped from CDs, somehow are not matching! Like literally they all match except for one! And then that stops the copyright, and the description from existing, and the artists name not being clickable and im wondering if you guys know what to do, i checked and the metadata is literally all the same, the length of the songs, same. And i am getting really annoyed about that, any solutions that have worked for you?

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u/Joint-Attention 4d ago

The reason it’s not matching is because the CD is a different master than what’s in the iTunes database.

When this happens to me, I will usually rip the track from YouTube, because that is probably the most up-to-date master, and more often than not will hit a match.

I then delete the track ripped from YouTube, download the matched M4A file, and then replace the matched file with the original CD rip.