hi, When iTunes Match is turned on, the only way that you can place actual songs onto your iDevice, is with the Download button you mentioned. What likely happened previously, is that you had already placed these songs on your iPhone before subscribing to iTunes Match, thus the local copy remained and just sync up with everything iTunes. If you wish to place these songs back onto your iDevice without the monotonous task of hitting 400 times on the Download button, then do the following:
* on your iDevice, turn off iTunes Match. * sync your iDevice accordingly. That is, connect your iDevice to your computer with the USB cable and sync the music over the old fashioned way. * once it's done, disconnect it from your computer and turn iTunes Match back on. There will be a few cautions about Libraries being replaced and such but that's simply the database stuff, not the actual songs. Depending on the size of your iTunes Library, the re-syncing of the Library to the iTunes Match setup could take a little while, but not usually more than a few minutes. Once the re-sync is complete, those songs should no longer have the "Download" button beside them and you can then listen to them whenever you don't have a WiFi and/or data connection. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 28, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all. I am cross-posting because I really am not sure if the problem is > with my iPhone settings, my MacBook, or my iTunes account. > 1. > I did a restore iPHone because of trouble with the native messages app, which > did resolve the issue. > > 2. I did a back-up both to iCloud and my computer prior to the Restore. > > 3. Prior to the restore, I had about 400 of over a thousand songs actually on > my iPhone, but I do have an iTunes Match subscription. When I synced my > iPHone, prior to the Restore, this number of songs was displayed. > > 4. Now, every one of my 1021 songs is displayed in the iPhones music app, > because of iTunes Match, with a download button after it. None of the songs > is actually on the phone. Before the Restore, I had about 8 gigs of my 32 > free. Now I have over 18. > > 5. If I go into iTunes and check iPHone and Music, it is showing only 57 megs > of music, and says 4 songs. My iTunes library, however, is showing all of my > music, with checked and unchecked items as I specified before the Restore. > > Why can I not sync music onto my phone, as opposed to relying on iTunes Match > downloads? Why am I only showing 4 songs when I am about to sync, when my > iTunes library is clearly there? This is driving me batty. > Christine > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
