While everyone is busy analyzing the new iCloud service, which is free by the way as long as you’re running iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion ‘this coming fall’, many enthusiasts became interested with iCloud’s two other features, and that is, the iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match.
As the previous rumor-mill suggested, iTunes in the Cloud works like an iTunes Online, letting you download all the music files you’ve purchased on every iDevices you have on your home for free. Likewise, gone are the days when you need to sync and resync files again from your iPhone to your iPad just to have that single song you love.
According to Steve Jobs, all the music you purchased will ‘automatically’ be pushed ‘up to ten different devices’ via the iCloud of course.
How about those songs that you have ripped from a CD towards iTunes? Well, that’s where iTunes Match comes into play, as this service will scan all your existing CD-collection on your account, match it with a digitally certified song (a crispy DRM-free 256Kbps AAC file) and transfer it in the cloud. Interestingly, Steve notes this process of transferring (matching) will only happen in minutes, not days.
Then again, those songs that weren’t matched (e.g: self-composed songs) will be automatically uploaded, and that may take a while depending on your internet bandwith.
The price for this service will be 24.99 USD per year and up to 25,000 songs – that’s a lot even for audiophiles out there! Release date expected ‘this fall’.
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