Apple seems to be deploying iTunes Match into international music stores. Users in Canada, Ireland, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, France, New Zealand, and Spain are reporting that they now have an option to subscribe for the iTunes Match service. Users are reporting that iTunes Match is working fine and their libraries are being matched.
Apple unveiled iTunes Match along with iOS 5 and iCloud at the WWDC 2011 Keynote address in June. iTunes Match allows users to store their entire music collection (up to 25,000 songs), including songs that they've ripped from CDs or purchased from anywhere else in iCloud. Apple then launched iTunes Match officially on November 14th in the US.
iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to your iCloud library for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 18 million songs in the iTunes Store, most of your music is probably already in iCloud. All you have to upload is what iTunes cant match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. And all the music iTunes matches plays back at 256-Kbps iTunes Plus quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality.
Using the latest iTunes version--v10.5.2-- you should see the iTunes Match option in iTunes. Clicking on it should give you an option to subscribe to the service.
iTunes Match will cost £21.99 per year in the UK, €24.99 in other parts of Europe, $27.99 per year in Canada and A$34.99 per year in Australia.
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