Hi, Apple Music and iTunes Match are different, complementary, but also similar.
Apple Music does pretty well everything iTunes Match does, but a little differently and with a few restrictions. • both Apple Music and iTunes Match store your entire iTunes Library in iCloud. That is, they both take personal music and playlists, put them into the Cloud and make them accessible to all your devices. • iTunes Match gives you a DRM free copy of your personal music if it is available, whereas Apple Music downloads a copy with DRM present. • if you terminate iTunes Match, the high quality copies of the music are still available to you if you downloaded them, but with Apple Music, if you terminate the subscription, you lose access to the higher quality Apple Music version. • iTunes Match only gives you access to your own music and your purchased music. Apple Music gives you access to the entire 43 million songs in Apple's iTunes library. • when downloading local copies to your devices, both iTunes Match and Apple Music will give you the Apple version if available, but note the DRM restrictions above. • both also have restrictions on the quality and length of the original for upload to the Cloud. • there's some other technical differences that I can't remember. So, in most cases, having both services is unnecessary, although there are situations where it is useful. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 4, 2016, at 07:09, aliFaisal <faisal.a...@icloud.com> wrote: Hello everyone, I am a current apple music subscriber, and wish to possibly invest in iTunes match but had some questions. I understand that the service matches your library with what it has in the store and provides you to download the matched song. I also have a lot of songs I have added with apple music. How does it go about apple music songs and playlist? Does it match those as well? I have a large library with songs in the thousands. What would be the easiest and the most convenient way of determining whether the service has found matches for a song that I am listening to. would this information be reflected in the contextual menu on the song? And finally, when one downloads the matched song, what then happens to the original file that was in your library? does it get replaced or will it create duplicates. If it doesn’t replace them outright, is there a way to set iTunes to do that? I am pretty busy on most days and do not have the time to sift through and find duplicates that iTunes match has created with the matched songs. I want to automate the process as much as I can. Thanking you in advance for your feedback. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
