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Jason D. O'Grady+ developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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More on iTunes Match's new ID3 tags

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By Jason D. O'Grady | November 15, 2011, 8:00am PST

Summary: I started matching my iTunes library at around 2pm Monday and let it run and it hadn’t made a dent. Here’s how to tell which of your tracks is matched.

On Friday Apple released iTunes Match, its service that allows customers to store up to 25,000 music tracks on iCloud then sync them to all their devices for $25 per year.

More details are starting to emerge on the new service and Macworld notes that iTunes 10.5.1 — which is required to use iTunes Match — contains two new IDS 3 tags for viewing the status of your matched music:

The new tags can be displayed in iTunes by control-clicking on the field names at the top of iTunes (when viewing in List or Album List modes) or by going to View > View Options and then checking the two new options (below).

Once the new columns are exposed, they’ll appear something like this in your iTunes library.

Update: Apple has posted a useful table on how to understand iTunes Match’s iCloud Status icons:

Nunyabinez has posted some additional details on how iTunes Match works on the MacRumors forums:

You can’t choose to exclude songs other than taking them out of your library.If a song is matched, it becomes available to download in 256K AAC. If a song is not matched it is copied in its current format and bit rate up to 320K. If the file is Lossless however, it is converted (presumably by your computer) to a 256k AAC file and then uploaded.Nothing happens to your local music when you run match. If you have a lower quality song that was matched you can remove it from your local library and then replace it with the 256k version. What happens is you delete the song, but the entry in iTunes stays, but a little cloud now shows up in a newly added column that shows you that you have a song that is in the cloud but not in your library. You can click on the cloud and it will download it to your local library, where again it is now permanently yours at the higher bit rate.Match uses your meta-data. If you in an anal-retentive fashion have made lots of custom edits to your files, that is what gets copied to the cloud. Even if you replace your songs with the upgraded versions you keep your previous meta-data.

The full post is recommended reading if you plan to pony up the $25/year for iTunes Match.

I started matching my iTunes library at around 2pm Monday and let it run until around 8pm and it hadn’t made a dent – 1631 of 6371 items uploaded. I’ll let it crank for the next couple of days and hope that it completes soon, although I doubt it.

What about you? Are you buying?

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Jason O'Grady+ is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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