Practical: Discover, register and start using iTunes Match on your iPhone

YOU
you probably didn't miss it, iTunes Match is available today
In France.

If you do not understand what this service could be used for, or
how to register and activate the service on your computer or
iPhone, here is the article you need.

Before we tell you how to sign up, let's take a look at what iTunes is.
Match :

What is iTunes Match?

iTunes Match adds a brick to Apple's cloud,iCloud. He comes
also add to iTunes in the Cloud. Like what happens with
Apps, once a song is purchased on iTunes, iTunes in the Cloud lets you
will allow you to download this same song at will for free.
iTunes Match offers the same thing library-wide
whole.Whether you bought the songs on iTunes or not, and even
whether you downloaded them more or less legallyyou will be able to
send to the cloud.

Concretely, once you have subscribed to the €24.99 subscription, the
service will analyze your library then compare it to what is on
the apple servers. Once this connection is made (matching),il
will allow you to download the songs in 256 Kbps in AAC format and without
no DRM. So, if your music is of poor quality you have everything to do with it.
earn.

But that's not all since this music sent to the cloud will be
automatically accessible via Wifi or 3G (be careful with the package
data) on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad without the need to sync.

The American experience, where iTunes Match has been available for more
of a month, teaches us two things:

The downloaded songs are downloaded once and for all and it seems that
even if you stop the subscription, it is possible to keep them

The service would be limited to 25,000 songs

How to Subscribe and Start iTunes Match

Follow this link from your computer. You should arrive at this
page.

Click on subscribe for €24.99 per year and enter your username
Apple and your password

Then click in the left bar on iTunes Match which should
start your work in 3 steps:

1st step: analysis of your library to see
what is there
2nd step: the comparison of your library with the
iTunes catalog. Everything that exists is automatically available to you
in iTunes format
3rd step: what is missing is sent to the cloud for
so you can find it wherever you go

And on the iPhone

ObviouslyiTunes Match has its counterpart on the iPhone and
configuration is relatively simple.

Go to the phone settings then to Music
Turn on the iTunes Match switch at the very top. Your library will be
then automatically replaced by that of iTunes Match

Choose to display the entire library or just the music
downloaded using the switch just below

It's done

By going to the music application you should see songs
adorned with a little cloud (and if this is not the case, have fun deleting a
album to view) Then click on one of them to start the
download. You should see a small wheel appear that will fill up.

That's what there was to say about the start of iTunes Match. My first
impressions are that the service will be very useful to those who have a great
library not always of very good quality and who want to find it again
everywhere and simply. On the operational side, the first two stages are
pass quickly but the third is extremely long. This is
probably a passenger. The reason must be the launch and the thousands of
music-loving geeks who all synchronize their library together.

The iTunes catalog is relatively complete but for my part, approximately
15 to 20% of my pieces are not available and will therefore be sent
in the Cloud.

iTunes match will not replace a Deezer or Spotify subscription, it is
certain.

Do not hesitate to ask your questions in the comments, I will
I will respond as much as possible.As soon as we can
familiarize yourself a little more with the service, we will surely offer you a
second tutorial to get the most out of this iTunes Match.

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