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Title: Seeing "Apple Music" instead of "Matched" on your iTunes tracks? Here's the fix!
Post by: HCK on October 16, 2016, 04:05:23 pm
Seeing "Apple Music" instead of "Matched" on your iTunes tracks? Here's the fix!

How do you get your Mac's songs to show up as Matched if you're using Apple Music? We've got a couple of things to try.

This summer, Apple changed its Apple Music subscription service to include iTunes Match functionality as part of the $9.99 subscription: As such, all users who subscribe to Apple Music have access to Match's matching algorithms, and more importantly, DRM-free iCloud copies of their Mac's local tracks. As of October, every Apple Music subscriber should have access to proper matching, but if you're still seeing the "Apple Music" status on your local Mac tracks, here's how to fix it.

What exactly is matching?



Essentially, it's a feature of Apple's iCloud Music Library that lets you quickly and easily access your Mac's local music (previously purchased on other services, ripped from CDs, home recorded, and the like) on all your other devices. If you have a copy of Taylor Swift's 1989 on your iMac and enable iCloud Music Library, you'll be able to play and download ...

Source: Seeing "Apple Music" instead of "Matched" on your iTunes tracks? Here's the fix! (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/4rb8ZCFDFa8/seeing-matched-tracks-as-apple-music-heres-fix)