shadx312 wrote:There's a little more info at the end of the last keynote. Iirc, he mentioned "scanning" so I don't know if that means you can just scan the UPC with the device or have to put a cd in. Imagine how many people will be sharing cd's again. Seriously, how are they ever going to know which cd's aren't yours? I think it's 24.99 a month for up to 20,000 songs...
A couple years ago I got paid about a couple grand to convert this guys cd collection to itunes; by ripping each cd individually and then tagging each one with the Discography plug-in for foobar (cddb sucks). Ugh, and there were tons of Grateful Dead and Phish bootlegs I had to manually tag Easy, but tedious. Oh how this would've been nice...if he didn't know about it
Edit: N/M, my memory fails at the streaming vs downloading part.
Match scans your iTunes library. If the track is available in the iTunes store you’ll be able to download (or stream I hope) regardless of if you bought it from iTunes or not. If the track isn’t available in the iTunes store then it will upload the track to your storage in the cloud from which you can download (or stream I hope). If it exists on iTunes it doesn't count against your cloud storage.
Another bonus is you might have tracks in your library that are low quality but if they exist in the iTunes store you can download the 256-kbps AAC versions.
It’s a real no brainer for $25 a year.