iTunes Match, Apple's music-streaming and cloud music-storage service, is now working in Australia after a very shaky and confusing start.
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It's been available in the US since November, and we weren't expecting to see it until next year at the earliest, but Match snuck into iTunes yesterday. However, the owls are never what they seem; the launch was a mistake, and users from Canada, the UK and Australia yesterday and this morning were reporting that the service wasn't working, and refunds were being issued by Apple. There is good news, though; it now seems to be operational.
You can find the iTunes Match portal from the left nav-bar in iTunes.
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The annual subscription costs AU$34.99 (compared to US$24.99 in the US), and allows you to store up to 25,000 songs in the iTunes cloud — including songs that have not been purchased through Apple. Match will scan your library, find the songs via iTunes and then allow you to stream those songs to any Apple device.
Stay tuned for our CNET Australia review.
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