Hi Carol, iTunes Match is an annual subscription, so you pay $24.99 once a year. It’s an automatic payment unless you change this.
You don’t have to do anything special once you’ve got it. iTunes wil go through all of your music. If it has a copy in the iTunes store, you will have access to that copy. If it doesn’t, it will upload your music. If you rip more CDs, it will check them and upload if necessary automatically. When you turn on iTunes Match on your phone, you’ll see all of your music listed. Beside each album and track not on your phone, there will be a Download button you can use to download it. If you play a track without downloading first, it is streamed to your phone and also downloads, though the Download button doesn’t go away. The nice things about iTunes Match are first, the obvious, that all of your music is available on all of your devices. The other great thing is that if you ripped an album at a low bit rate and that music is in the iTunes store, you can download a higher bit rate version. I believe a track has to be at least 96 KBPS bit rate for iTunes Match to match it though. I hope that helps. Best, Anna > On Jan 11, 2015, at 7:37 AM, carol.pearso...@googlemail.com > <carol.pearso...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm thinking of going for ITunes Match, so can anyone tell me the following: > > After enabling and paying for it, what else do I need to do? Has anyone done > a useful podcast or written a good article to which you could direct me? > > We have still quite a lot of music to rip, and some is ripped at different > rates to others, so would it really benefit us at this time? Finally, is it > an annual or one-off payment? > > Carol P > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/>. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com > <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <http://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
