iTunes Match won’t look at music with low bitrates, which can include tracks ripped using a variable bit rate setting. What do you do if iTunes says a track is ineligible and you would rather not spend all day trying to find the original CD? The answer’s simple: cheat!
First of all you need to find the files. To do this, create a playlist where iCloud Status is ineligible. Select it and you should see the offending tracks. Select them, right-click and choose Create AAC Version. iTunes will now convert them to iTunes Match-eligible AACs.
If you see an MP3 option rather than AAC, Go to iTunes > Preferences. In the General tab, click on Import Settings, choose the AAC encoder and select iTunes Plus from the Settings drop-down menu.
The new files won’t sound any better, but that’s not our goal here: we’re kidding iTunes into thinking they’re good enough to be matched. Delete the originals, make a playlist of the new ones and let iTunes Match do its thing; once it’s matched the tracks, delete your local copies and download the matched copies. It’s a bit of a pain, we know, but it’s much easier than banging around the loft trying to find a CD you haven’t seen in seven years.
denalidad
September 25, 2012 at 10:19am
I mean really! Comments in the media and on Apple's own support community leads me to believe there isn't anything Apple is doing about the recurring 4001 and 4002 errors that are regular visitors since iOS 6. For me, it's very irritating not to have all my songs available on all my devices, as iCloud promised and was a reality before this major OS change.
Why doesn't Apple do something about it, or at least acknowledge and explain whatever is making it happen? THEN work on a fix. After all, they made us addicts to their products and willing participants in the frequent upgrades, so why not make them work?
I cannot imagine Apple under Steve Jobs allowing this to continue as long as it has without a word from Apple. Even one week is too much!
