Note: This doesn't apply to tracks from your own collection that you've synced via iCloud Music Library: They're either matched to the DRM - free
iTunes Store catalog, or uploaded as - is.
This status means that you've purchased these songs from
the iTunes Store catalog; when you re-download them on any other device (up to 10), it'll show up as a 256kbps Purchased DRM - free AAC (m4a) file.
iTunes Match and Apple Music use audio fingerprinting and metadata to «match» tracks from the iTunes Store to your library, but be aware:
The iTunes Store catalog's matching algorithm isn't perfect, especially when it comes to live tracks and other rare songs, and there's unfortunately no way to «force upload» a song to iCloud.
Thanks to iTunes Match, your iCloud Music Library may contain songs you've purchased from iTunes, uploaded from your Mac, or matched to
the iTunes Store catalog.
iCloud Music Library lets you upload or «match» your personal music library with the DRM - free
iTunes Store catalog.
Outside of the subscription service, Apple Music lets its users match up to 100,000 songs from their iTunes library (or libraries) to the DRM - free
iTunes Store catalog; these tracks can then be streamed or downloaded to up to ten of your other devices.
In short: All non-Apple Music tracks you own are matching to
the iTunes Store catalog, with audio fingerprinting for better results, and they will show up as Matched or Uploaded on your auxiliary devices.
iTunes Match worked with Apple's
iTunes Store catalog, which meant that users quickly got comfortable with DRM - free files that were theirs to keep.
While the Apple Music catalog and
iTunes Store catalogs have similar songs within them, they are vastly different beasts: iTunes encodes all its tracks as DRM - free 256kbps AAC files; Apple Music files are 256kbps, but they're protected AAC files and require an active Apple Music subscription for them to play.
Not exact matches
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iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service featuring over 200 stations and an incredible
catalog of music from the
iTunes Store ®, combined with features only
iTunes can deliver.
Apple too launched its
iTunes Store's movies and music
catalog in more than 50 countries including India last December, before launching the Apple TV in India.
EAF becomes so wildly successful that every library in the US buys our
catalog, and every reader in the US stops using Amazon,
iTunes, B&N, Kobo, SW, Scribd, Oyster, Google, and every other ebook
store, and instead attains their ebooks via their local library.
The
iTunes Store ® puts the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store at your fingertips with a catalog of over 20 million songs, over 90,000 TV episodes and over 15,000 mo
Store ® puts the world's most popular online music, TV and movie
store at your fingertips with a catalog of over 20 million songs, over 90,000 TV episodes and over 15,000 mo
store at your fingertips with a
catalog of over 20 million songs, over 90,000 TV episodes and over 15,000 movies.
Apple today announced
iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service featuring over 200 stations and an incredible
catalog of music from the
iTunes Store.
The Music app has a beautiful new design and includes the new
iTunes Radio, a free Internet radio service featuring over 200 stations and an incredible
catalog of music from the
iTunes Store ®, combined with features only
iTunes can deliver.
The Library tab makes it easy to navigate all of your music, wherever it comes from — from the
iTunes Store, from a rare import CD, or from the Apple Music
catalog.
iTunes Match made sense: Users matched low - quality tracks for high - quality
iTunes Store ones, and their library would be ready for streaming quickly because most of those high - quality tracks were already in Apple's
catalog, saving them from lengthy manual uploads.
To save space and upload time, any track in your library that's also available in the
iTunes Music
Store catalog will «match» to the
catalog version; this means that when you play that track on your iPhone or another Mac, you'll get the
iTunes Music
Store version (a DRM - free, 256kbps - quality AAC file, for those wondering), rather than your original file.
Xbox Music has a music
catalog on par with
iTunes and will give you access to millions of songs and albums that you can subscribe to or purchase through the Xbox Music
Store.
Rather than using the DRM - laden Apple Music
catalog to match your purchased and ripped tracks, it now uses the
iTunes Store's DRM - free
catalog.