What is iTunes Match?

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Back in late November, Apple introduced a new and innovative service called “iTunes Match”.

iTunes Match enables a user to import any of his or her older music CDs into iTunes, and then iTunes Match will match your music collection to what it has available in its own iTunes Store (thus the name) and then make that music available ‘in the cloud’ to any iOS device a person may have (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) for them to listen to anytime they have a network connection. If the service cannot find a song in its library, then iTunes Match will then upload the song to its service. Once the music is in the ‘cloud’, a user can either stream the song(s) or download them to any iOS device(s) the person may have. The service even plays those music files at 256-Kbps AAC-DRM free quality even if your older musical CDs are of less sound quality.

In order for the above to work, each iOS device must be upgraded to iOS 5, which is a free download from Apple. For step by step information on how to do this, just go to http://applescoop2.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/how-to-upgrade-your-ios-device-to-ios5/

iTunes Match costs $24.99 per year for unlimited access.

For more information about iTunes Match, just go to http://www.apple.com/itunes.