The official introduction of iTunes Match in U.S. can be a clear factor that this new service by Apple can change the way we are managing our music offline and online. iTunes Match charges us $25 per year. With this service you can find all music in the cloud no matter where you are. The system is quite smart that it will track for the best quality music from both your library and iTunes Music Store maintaining in AAC 256 kb/s. It is very convenience and time saving to remove low quality music that you don’t have to do anything but the system will actually do all the work.
Music file compatible with iTunes Match
To maintain in AAC 256 kb/s, for any music with 320 kb/s, the iTunes will encode to AAC 256 kb/s and send them to Apple Server meanwhile keep the original file with the high res in your computer.
Music file rejected by iTunes Match
Not all music files are transferred to Apple server and some are not compatible to send. For each music file with size over 200MB or lower than 96 kb/s.
Music Storing and Deleting
Now you have your music store on both PC or Mac and iCloud. The two files are different but associate when you attempt to do anything. In case you delete your songs from your PC or Mac, iTunes will ask you if you also want to delete in from the iCloud or not.
How to Get iTunes Match Song on iDevices
It is very convenience when your songs were sent to iCloud and you always can access to those songs anywhere and whenever you want. The Music application allows you to download an album or each song on your iDevices and you can delete it. The songs are always available to download as many times as you want.
Now iTune Match is available in U.S. with iTunes 10.5.1, iOS 5.0.1, Mac OS X lion, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
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