What is iTunes Store

 

 iTunes Stores Price, Cost of iTunes Match

• From the Apple Music app on your Mac or iTunes for Windows on your PC, iTunes Match uploads your music collection.
• Users can buy and download products from the iTunes Store directly to mobile Apple devices like the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and iPod Touch.
• Your iTunes collection will be instantly transferred to Apple TV, Apple Podcasts, and the new Apple Music app.

 

Millions of albums, music, films and other products are available for purchase at the Apple iTunes store, along with numerous free offerings like podcasts and instructional lectures. You can set up automatic downloading so that anything you download from the store is downloaded to all of your devices, and anything you buy from this store is instantly added to your iTunes library. With the aid of iTunes cards, you can purchase items from the iTunes Store because these cards have credit that can be used to buy a variety of goods and services from the Store.

Any digital items offered on the iTunes Store, such as movies, games, music, and more, can be purchased using the iTunes Card. The iTunes Store is the largest music retailer in the world, offering millions of albums, songs, movies, and other things for sale as well as numerous free downloads like podcasts and lectures. In the navigation bar, select Store to access the iTunes store. To view additional sections of the store, choose a media type from the pop-up menu in the top left. Your iTunes library is immediately expanded by the things you buy, download, or rent from the iTunes Store.

iTunes Match

No matter whether you imported music into iTunes from other sources, bought music from Amazon, or ripped CDs, iTunes Match compares your local music library to Apple's DRM-protected iTunes Store and uploads anything it can't match.

Regardless of the original bit rate, matched songs are accessible in iTunes Plus quality (256 kbps AAC). In the settings, you can also enable the iCloud Music Library feature to make your full local music collection accessible on all devices using the same Apple ID.

Cost of iTunes Match

For $25 a year, you may use iTunes Match, a less well-known subscription service from Apple, to upload your music library to the cloud and listen to it on any Apple device or a Windows PC.

Operating iTunes Match:

Following are the methods for adding music to iTunes Match:

Purchases: 

Your iCloud music collection contains all of your iTunes Store purchases.

Matches: 

Through the iCloud music library, matches from your local music library regardless of where the songs originated become accessible on all of your devices.

Uploads: 

Songs from your local music collection that don't have any compatible matches in the iTunes Store catalog are uploaded to your iCloud music library automatically in 256 kbps AAC. The original files from iTunes Match are always kept on your device. All DRM-free songs without matches will be uploaded by iTunes Match as part of an initial scan of your local music library; these uploads don't use up any of your iCloud storage. Any new music will be automatically scanned, matched, and uploaded moving forward.

AAC, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless are all audio formats that iTunes Match supports in addition to Apple Music. Remember that songs that are not matched will automatically be converted to 256Kbps AAC. For instance, iTunes Match will downscale some of your higher-quality MP3s from 320 kbps to 256 kbps AAC before uploading.

All of your playlists from iTunes or the Music app are also accessible across all of your devices thanks to iTunes Match, with one exception: playlists that contain additional content, such as digital booklets that are included with some albums, will not sync.

Your music library should always be backed up with Time Machine or another program of your choice. As Apple explicitly states in its support document, iTunes Match should not be considered a backup service for your music.