Apple Officially Launches iTunes Match

Apple has officially launched iTunes Match, which is part of the iCloud suite that launched earlier month, stores the entirety of your music library in the cloud, allows users to back-up their entire music library with Apple’s servers.

Unlike competing cloud storage music services from Amazon and Google, iTunes Match saves a lot of bandwidth and time in your initial synchronization, because Apple can identify which songs in your iTunes library are already available in the iTunes Store.

iTunes Match ‘matches’ all songs in your iTunes library and stores them in the iCloud, and importantly, even those tracks which are unavailable through the iTunes Store. There is currently a 25,000 song limit, however no songs bought through iTunes’ 18 million-track catalogue will count towards that total.

iTunes in the Cloud lets you download your previously purchased iTunes music to all your iOS devices at no additional cost, and new music purchases can be downloaded automatically to all your devices. In addition, music not purchased from iTunes can gain the same benefits by using iTunes Match, a new service that upgrades your music to iTunes Plus when matched to the over 20 million songs in the iTunes Store catalog.

Through the iCloud, iTunes Match makes all your music immediately available to all of your Apple devices – Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch – but as iTunes Match is not a streaming service, you will need to download the songs or albums that you would like to play before you can listen, and if you want to transfer your own movies/musics to iTunes to make your iTunes more content, then you may free download Video to iTunes Converter for Mac to solve video transferring problem well.