
I recently resubscribed to iTunes Match and was thinking about moving over to Apple Music. I just got off the phone with Apple tech support. Apple Allegedly Discontinuing iTunes Match In About a Month.
But you can also use Apple Music to enable iCloud Music Library. Then iTunes Match configures your cloud with the music in. It works perfectly.To get started with iTunes Match, you need to add the iTunes Match service to your iCloud account.
Itunes Match Download Them One
Leo says nonsense Go into iTunes and look. Apple says he has to download them one song at a time, though. Leo says that because Ed is an iTunes Match subscriber and has it all uploaded, he can download them. He got a new 13' MacBook Pro with Retina display, and wants to download that music back to his SSD drive. (You can use both Apple Music and iTunes Match at the same time, although that can lead to songs you own and ripped on one machine being downloaded as locked versions on another device!)Ed uses iTunes Match, has 40GB of music, and his laptop's hard drive has broken.
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Select all the music now in the folder, and Control-click to select Download.Scroll down to the Settings area and click the Manage link to the right of Subscriptions.Find the iTunes Match item and click Edit.Create a smart album to remove locally downloaded songs change the Location line to find and then download matched or purchased songs.The subscription remains active until the end of the current year, which is noted to the right of the Cancel Subscription button. Change the criteria in the smart album for “Location, is, on this computer to” to “Location, is, in iCloud.” Click OK.
