iTunes Match now available for developers

By on Aug 29, 2011 at 8:45 PM
mobile August 29, 2011

Apple’s iTunes Match service, which lets you store your entire music collection, including music you have ripped from a CD, or purchased or downloaded elsewhere, is now available for developers for testing. Apple’s iTunes Match service automatically scans your music library and checks your digital music files against Apple’s 18 million plus music library. If Apple has the song, you’re able to play it back at full quality, effectively transforming your library into an iTunes-approved one for only $25/year. Apple is giving developers a three-month extension on the normal 12-month subscription package for their troubles.

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  • http://www.twitter.com/diontelove Dionte Love

    I can’t wait to see how much of my library it actually recognizes. 

    • Anonymous

      ..i cant believe this!! me and my sister just got two i-pads for $42.77 each and a $50 amazon card for $9. the stores want to keep this a secret and they dont tell you.
      go here, EgoWìn.com

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    this gets a big YAWN from me as this is something DROID already DOES and DOES better.   With Google and Amazon, I can officially say crApple is dead and sinking fast in the music department.  LoL!!!! Apple = failure

    • Anonymous

      There is no music match service with Google or Amazon and you have to spend weeks to upload your collection. It’s bull crap from the kings of mediocrity Google and Amazon.

      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

        Weeks, really?
        You strike me as the type of person that would have nothing more than Britney spears and lady gaga’s discography, maybe with a few glee songs thrown in.
        That takes weeks?

      • Anonymous

         it only took 2 hrs to upload my whole 2k collection…for free…using Google Music…did i mention free??

      • Anonymous

        You mean “free trial” as Google has already stated they will be charging for this at a later date. And charging based on GB’s used.

        With iTunes Match, I could have 15,000 songs in my collection already in their servers and not one of them needs to be uploaded (which means none of them count towards my GB limit). Only stuff I have that iTunes doesn’t will need to be uploaded and count towards my GB limit. With Google, EVERY SINGLE SONG you upload gets counted towards your storage.

      • Carlos

        Google’s music service is currently in beta testing and invite only.  Google has already said that once it launches they will charge.  They haven’t released any pricing details yet.

        So, no it won’t be free once it actually launches to the public.

      • Anonymous

         @f7fed6eb44f2883111455a7ac8c57f08:disqus @ericthehalfbee:disqus my mistake…i did see it says free for a limited time…either way, itunes cloud or google music cloud is the way to go…i see both being successful

    • Anonymous

      Ya, I love the days I spent uploading my music to Google. That was an awesome use of my time, bandwidth and technology.

      • Anonymous

        Did you watch the download all that time? Could not you just start it and get on with your life? Oh boy, those Apple fans are really stupid. They can not stand computers doing their work but they are OK with standing for hours (sometimes days) in lines to buy a new iCrap.

      • Anonymous

        Ya, I could get on with my life, however bandwidth caps at Comcast make Google’s approach kind of tedious. Four of us with large libraries on different machines would slow the internet and make life horrible. 

        PREDICTION: Within 6 months Google will rip this off and all the Google fans will say how excellent Google is for taking this approach.

      • Larry

        Actually, releasing a product already in the market and claiming to have invented it is Apple’s purview, not Google’s.

        Also, your problem then was Comcast, not Google, since they set the bandwidth cap. Apple on the other hand will charge you $25 to stream music you already own, and you are happy to pay. Wow. Just, wow.

        Dude, if you want, I can sell you that iPhone you already own, for $25 a month, but I’ll send you a text message to remind you how awesome Steve Jobs is. Deal?

    • Carlos

      No.  Neither Google’s nor Amazon’s music services do what iTunes Match does.  Those 2 services are just music lockers where you can upload your songs and play them back.

      • Larry

        Yeah, and iTunes Match allows you to stream music you already own for $25 a year. So, it is double charging you for your already purchased music.

        If I wanted that, I’d use Orb to stream my music to my smartphone, but since I already uploaded my music to Google, I don’t have to, nor do I have to pay extra for music I already own. Besides, as with most Google products, a specific amount of space will likely be free, but they will charge above a certain limit. I’ll never pass that limit, so I’ll never pay.

  • Anonymous

    I have a 10,000 song library that’s mostly ripped at 320 and it took about 4 days to upload to google music.  I will probably also have this since my wife has an iPhone. 

    • Carlos

      320 kbps?  Sweeeet!!!

  • http://twitter.com/livingbasehead Shelton

    Okay this sounds really really cool, Im not sure I understand so would this thing go through and label the Black crowes album that I have that is currently listed as track 1, track 2, and so on. and it would then store it on apples servers? so in the event my computer gets viruses all my music is there? can we get some more details on this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=603851873 Erik Farber

    Is there a limitation to the number of songs you can “match”?  Will it still upload the songs it doesn’t match to the cloud with all of the tags, cover art in tact?  

    • Anonymous

      25,000 song limit. They haven’t stated how it will handle songs it can’t match or what criteria they use to match. Doesn;t bother me – I always make sure my music is properly tagged with artist, album and song titles.

  • Anonymous

    My question is, and forgive me if I missed the obvious answer, are the songs just a click away from hearing them on my iPhone or are they just there for me to download off the cloud like the apps are now?

    • Carlos

      You’re songs in iCloud are just one click away.  You can click to stream from the cloud and it would play instantly or you can download the song to your device.

  • Anonymous

    I have a lot of my own “best of” albums, where I have combined songs from multiple albums into one with a single title/art, this will be messed up during the matching? I don’t see myself using it anyway, as I keep the current songs I’m listening to with me, but I’m assuming this would screw with a lot of people like me that have custom libraries or are very OCD about their music collection.

  • http://mediamonstrosity.com person287

    It looks really nice, but to be honest I don’t think I’ve bought a song in the last 6 months. I’ve just been using the Radio apps on my iPhone and youtube.

  • Tim

    so let me get this straight.  you had to pay Apple for the music in the first place because it only matches a song that has been purchased on iTunes.  then you have to pay Apple again to stream it??  gotta hand it to Apple somehow they’ve managed to convince the drones that this is a good deal…

    • Carlos

      No.  

      1.  Songs you purchased through iTunes don’t count against your limit so no, you don’t have to pay to stream those.

      2.  It matches songs that are in iTunes’s library (18+ million), not just songs you’ve purchased.  So that song you ripped 5 years ago from your friend’s cd?  If it’s in iTunes’s library it will match i, upgrade the audio quality to 256 and you won’t have to upload it.

  • Davis

    It doesn’t match based off what you’ve labeled songs as. It does the SoundHouse/Shazam type matching to figure out what you have.

  • Davis

    SoundHound*

  • Larry

    So Apple will charge me $25 a month to stream music I already own? That’s so nice of them. So, exactly how is this better than Google Music where I upload my music to Google and stream it all for free?

    • Anonymous

      I believe it’s $25 a year, not per month.

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