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iTunes Match Question

Ipheuria

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Yeah I'm kinda fuzzy on whether they will stream it, I don't think they will. I think the high quality song will be in your iCloud account and then it will go to your phone or whatever other iDevice you have when you sync, for when you want to play it. Just like Zune it's a subscription service and with Zune I forgot how it goes but they give you 10 songs a year or something. If you cancel those songs you keep but everything else goes away you don't have access anymore. So I'm sure if you stop paying for Match they will probably just set your device to sync with your library since your account wont contain the high bit rate versions anymore.
 

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The way the Zune works is for like 15 a month you have unlimited music to download and as long as you keep the subscription you keep the songs you download. Every month you are given 10 song credits so you can buy 10 of the songs to keep forever no matter what. Which is not too bad of a deal I think. But I think iTunes Match is a great service, just I wish I knew more details about it.
 

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I find it interesting that Apple chose to "solve" the issue of "questionable" sourcing of music (big assumption that all non-iTunes music is personally ripped vs otherwise "acquired") this way. The $25 monthly charge for the service is to grease the palms of the RIAA folks... and I am surprised that the RIAA sold out so cheaply...

Just to be clear... it will be $25/year. If it was $25/month there is NO WAY I would pay that much for cloud matching and access to my music.
 

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