Amm here's a thought, don't subscribe.
I have all my music ripped as Apple Lossless, I don't buy aac or mp3's but I don't go around boasting about it.

Dude, get off my case. I do not intend to subscribe, but I don't see what that has to do with you??

When you put comments in an open forum it's 'got to do" with anyone who uses the forum.

In reply to a post by 12eason:

It says nothing about using itunes to rip the CDs. It refers to ALL of the music on someone's computer, regardless or where it came from.

It seems to imply that you will be able to stream "your" music, but Apple owns the licence?

A spokesman for PRS for Music, the UK trade body for songwriters and music publishers, said Apple had "done the right thing" by obtaining licences before launching the service.

No. iTunes Match is not a streaming service (like Spotify), you purchase the items and download them to your devices. Unlike a streaming service, you don't have to be online to listen to your music.

I'm not sure what licences are being talked about here, but they must be licences to sell the music to a third party.

Edit: Correction; that appears to be wrong. It is a streaming and a download service. But my point remains - you have actually purchased the music, not just the right to listen to it via a streaming service.

Edited by deleted (Sat 17-Dec-11 09:18:23)

In reply to a post by AEP:

No. iTunes Match is not a streaming service (like Spotify), you purchase the items

You mean you pay £21.99 a year, but then still have to purchase the items to download them? What's the £21.99 for then?

No. You pay £21.99 and then you can download (or stream) any music that you have previously purchased. So if you have ripped 24,999 tracks from CDs you can download (for that £21.99) high-quality versions of all of them as well as anything that you have purchased from iTunes. That's not a bad deal for £21.99.

(I say 24,999 because, I believe, there is a 25,000 limit on music that you have obtained from sources other than iTunes.)

Edit: And you can download that content to 10 devices - so not a bad deal really.

Edited by deleted (Sat 17-Dec-11 09:23:37)

The original article is misleading as it's indicating that iTunes Match will provide better quality than your music on your machine. The Apple page says "Even better, all the music iTunes matches plays back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality � even if your original copy was of lower quality." which is a fairer statement.

If my music is stored as AIFF or lossless files on my machine iTunes Match I doubt that Apple will provide a better quality file, which the original article is implying.

It's just the usual Apple hype m8 for the 'usual suspect' sheep that buy into it

That explains the problem I had signing on with my iTunes account yesterday. Good.