One More Thing... iTunes Match
June 6, 2011
Steve Jobs has announced his WWDC 2011 "one more thing." It is a new service called iTunes Match, which retails for $24.99 per year. With it, users can sync their non-iTunes purchased songs across iDevices.
According to its Apple page, iTunes Match:
If you want all the benefits of iTunes in the Cloud for music you haven’t purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution. It lets you store your entire collection, including music you’ve ripped from CDs or purchased somewhere other than iTunes. For just $24.99 a year. Here’s how it works: 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 can’t 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.The new service is expected this fall.
