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| iTunes Match |
Fact, many users have been waiting for: On Monday evening, Apple launched its iTunes music service in the U.S. match. The offer allows songs that have been ripped from your own CDs, for example, to store data in Apple's icloud Cloud. So the title is available everywhere for every device that is connected with the account of each user. Say: On all Apple devices and it works on computers that have iTunes running.
The service works without having to upload the title cumbersome and time consuming should, as is the case for example with Google Music. The software will recognize the appropriate song it is, and assigns the appropriate title from the iTunes offering. Not infrequently, so you should make a good trade, because Apple stores all the songs on high-quality match.
Great interest has, therefore, the service also drawn to it because it is not possible with Apple's technique is to check whether someone is legally come into possession of songs he wants to save via iTunes icloud in the match. Some of these services is therefore dismissed jokingly as a way to legalize illegal music collections accumulated charge. In the U.S., Apple requires an annual fee of $ 25 for iTunes match.
Originally the company had announced that the service can already start at the end of October. When iTunes match now with just over two weeks late was unlocked, the crowd was immense: How "paid content" reports were interested in a few hours after the start of the message, there were "no new iTunes-match subscriptions available," one should But try it again later.
Journalists and bloggers who were able to test the software already - a preliminary version is available to developers for weeks - were mostly impressed by how quick and easy: the offer.
Users from Germany do not have to hurry though, the match needed for iTunes software update to iTunes 10.5.1. run it. So far, the U.S. group are still missing the licensing rights to operate the music service in this country. Originally the company wanted to offer the service before the year in Germany. Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa), according to the company but so far has taken no calls about new licenses with the collecting society GEMA.
