![]() ![]() It seems Apple has retired iTunes Match in favor of Apple Music. ITunes Match is $25 a year (~$2 a month), Apple Music is $9.99 a month ($120 a year) or $14.99 ($180 a year) for families of up to six people sharing the same credit card. And then you can top it off with Apple Music if you like more music but don’t want to buy anymore.Īpple-Music-only is for people who don’t have an extensive library of rare music and are fine with conveniently getting the Apple music catalog as it is. So iTunes Match is the choice if you want to have your meticulously built music library accessible on all devices without manually syncing parts of your library to your storage constrained devices. Both are available on all your Apple devices and allow for streaming and downloading. ITunes Match lets you only listen to your music while Apple Music lets you listen to all the music Apple has in its music catalog. The quality for both is the same (256 Kbit/s AAC). ITunes Match let’s you download DRM- free (freely copyable) music of your matched songs while Apple Music only let’s you download DRM- protected (copy protected) music. Uploading is important if you have rare titles you want to keep. Apple Music doesn’t allow uploading of songs which are not in the music catalog. ITunes Match automatically uploads songs which can’t be matched. This means iTunes might choose a different version or recording of some of your songs instead of your original ones. ITunes Match matches your songs’ acoustic fingerprint against Apple’s Music catalog to find the perfect match while Apple Music only matches against your song’s details (such as name, artist, album). I explain why it’s reasonable to have both.Īpple has a detailed explanation of the differences between Apple Music and iTunes Match in regard to your music library, but they can be summed up more easily. Apple Music and iTunes Match have overlapping features which makes them confusing. ![]()
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