(If you’ve tweaked iTunes’s importing settings, that option may read differently verify your settings in Preferences -> General -> Import Settings.) iTunes will re-encode the selected tracks with a higher bit-rate. Re-encoding songs with lower bit-rates makes them suddenly eligible for iTunes Match matching.Ĭontrol-click (or right-click) on the offending song(s) in question, and choose Create AAC Version from the contextual menu that appears. We did, however, come across a workaround for getting the service to match poorly-encoded tunes. (You can find your tracks that iTunes Match won’t match by creating a Smart Playlist where iCloud Status is Ineligible and Media Kind is Music.) We haven’t found any tricks to start getting iTunes Match to match songs that are shorter than five seconds-though luckily there aren’t too many of those. I found about 20 tracks in my library that were encoded at laughably low rates each was marked Not Eligible. ITunes Match won’t match very short songs, and it won’t match songs encoded with very low bit-rates. Some songs aren’t eligible for iTunes Match, but there is a workaround

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