Last week a friend of mine found that just a few days after purchasing the iTunes Match service in December she had exceeded the monthly data-transfer limit on the AT&T cellular plan for her iPad. Matt Elliott provides a step-by-step guide to using iTunes Match in a November 15, 2011, post on the CNET How-to page.ĭefault iTunes Match setting can lead to jumps in cellular-data use I was pleasantly surprised to find the service retrieving album art for songs I transferred from cassettes and records using the free Audacity audio software I explained how to use Audacity in a post from last July.

In addition to songs and other media purchased from the iTunes store, iTunes Match works with music tracks ripped from CDs as well as MP3s converted from audiocassettes, LPs, and other analog sources. On the iPad and the Mac the Matched tracks played after only a slight delay. Once the transfer was complete the MP3s were accessible from iTunes on my iPad I also tested iTunes Match on a Mac. When I signed up for the iTunes Match service, it took several hours to upload via a cable-modem connection about 5,500 MP3s that were stored in the iTunes Library on a Windows 7 PC. CNET blogger Lance Whitney describes the iTunes Match service in a December 28, 2011, post Apple provides an iTunes Match FAQ. Apple's iTunes Match service is running up cell-data charges for some unsuspecting iPad users.įor $25 a year, iTunes Match stores your iTunes library on Apple's iCloud servers and makes them available on any PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and other iOS devices.

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