I use this “Apple match” service with iTunes. I think the idea was it found songs from cds I ripped and served me the same song from the cloud(without uploading) for a small yearly fee.
Though it did spend a long time uploading but I have a few phish concerts and a huge amount of classical I bought (Deutche Gramaphone has a best of collection they sold direct that was pretty big)
“by Apple (and formerly Amazon.com) was "scan-and-match", which examined music files on a computer and added a copy of matched tracks to the user's music locker without having to upload the files.”
Note that there are two different matching products:
- iTunes Match: matches files by audio fingerprint and gives you 256k AAC unDRM'd files. If it doesn't match, uploads files to "iTunes in the Cloud" digital locker feature (files may be converted to AAC prior to uploading). Costs in the order of 20-ish € a year.
- Apple Music: matches files by audio fingerprint and gives you 256k AAC FairPlay-protected files. Can't recall if it uploads (I think it does?) and how it converts (might convert to FairPlay protected?).
Both have song count limit (10k or something for iTunes in the Cloud), and they may differ (not sure, Apple Music may be higher).
Though it did spend a long time uploading but I have a few phish concerts and a huge amount of classical I bought (Deutche Gramaphone has a best of collection they sold direct that was pretty big)
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“by Apple (and formerly Amazon.com) was "scan-and-match", which examined music files on a computer and added a copy of matched tracks to the user's music locker without having to upload the files.”
Don’t know how much longer this will last.