Apple Music is a music streaming service. The main question you’ll probably be asking yourself, is Why should I subscribe to iTunes Match, when I’m hooked up with Apple Music? Well, the two services really offer pretty different features. Any 10 devices (desktop or mobile) associated with your Apple ID can then access the entire contents of your iTunes library tracks can either be streamed or downloaded to your device.Īpple’s iTunes Match means all your music will be available across all of your iOS devices. If tracks in your iTunes library are available in Apple’s iTunes music catalog, then these tracks are “matched” against Apple’s own 256kbps ACC audio files if your tracks aren’t available in the iTunes catalog, then iTunes will upload your music in their original form.Īfter your iTunes library has been either matched or uploaded, it’ll be available in your iCloud Music Library. In a nutshell, it works by scanning your iTunes library and making all of your tracks available on 10 registered devices. Unlike Apple Music, which allows iOS device owners to stream Apple’s iTunes music catalog for a $9.99 monthly fee, iTunes Music carries an annual $24.99 (£21.99) fee. But what about the latter? Let’s take a detailed look at iTunes Match, in order to help readers figure out whether it’s worth the subscription fee. The former, as we’ve discussed before, offers iPhone owners an on-demand music-streaming service. DRM-free and all that.Apple has two music-based subscription services on offer these days: Apple Music, and iTunes Match. So, in theory, you could create a playlist of all your low-quality music in iTunes, re-download it from the cloud at a higher-bitrate, pull it off with some program and then replace the tracks in iTunes. Now, I know Apple likes to pretend you can't (at least in public) but you can pull files from an iPod, iPhone or iPad with a variety of different, legal third-party software. In other words, while they may say, "1,000,000 have that new Katy Perry single," they can never say which 1,000,000.Ģ. Now, add to that a bit in the Terms of Service which says Apple promises, in a very legally-binding way, that it will not show your data to anyone in a way that would allow them to identify you a specific user. No one needs to worry because Apple is viewing the content under an automated system and is 100% file-agnostic. Will RIAA see your tracks and decide to sue you? Will Apple say, "Hey, are you sure you own these?" and so forth. Now, there are two other points I think worth considering:ġ. For various reasons (not all nefarious) people are worried about the legal implications of putting their music in the cloud. Personally, I'd much rather see it give me a 256 AAC, that way I don't waste space on my iPhone (where ALAC is kind of useless anyway). I seem to remember reading something to that effect but I want to double-check. (Not 100% on this) if you uploaded a ALAC file, you'll download one. You are limited to 25,000 songs in the cloud. On your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you can download 256 Kbps versions of those songs. iTunes scans your media and only uploads albums it doesn't already have on file (by the way, DropBox does the exact same thing).Ģ. I wonder with which offers google and amazon will respond. Apple really steps up the competition and I like competition. are really customer oriented and absolutely "nice". In general all these changes to iTunes, the app store etc. Well.on the other hand if you see it this way: The songs are already stolen, damage is done, music industry sees no penny, so now with the match service at least they get a share. How will Apple prevent people with a huge "torrented" or stolen library to just "legalize" all their stolen goods and make them "legal"? What happens after a year when I decide not to continue itunes match? As the files have no AAC I assume I can still use them legally, right? What happens to the original? Will it get replaced, or as Apple calls it "upgraded" ? Ripped song from CD "Lalala by the Weinstein Jodlers" in ALACĬan download above song for free in 256kbits AACĪutomatically downloads above song in 256kbits AACĬan download above song for free in 256kbits If I understand the match feature correctly this is what happens:
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