Today Apple is rolling out its iTunes Match internationally, which unintentionally got rolled out yesterday unofficially. It is now being offered to users in Canada, Ireland, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, France, New Zealand, and Spain, providing an option to subscribe for the iTunes Match service.
The reviews for this service have all been positive so far with users satisfied that their music libraries are being matched. The users in the U.S. received this service as early as November 14th this year. Apple had mentioned introducing the service during its iOS 5 and iCloud launch in June at WWDC 2011 Keynote address.
Through iTunes Music, users can store their music collection of up to 25,000 songs. They can include those songs they have taken from CDs or purchased through iCloud. There are around 18 million songs in the iTunes Store, which means that most users will be having their favourite songs in iCloud library to match in their iTunes Match collection. All music that iTunes matches with plays back at 256-Kbps iTunes Plus quality.
For now iTunes Match costs £21.99 per year in the UK, €24.99 in other parts of Europe, $27.99 per year in Canada and A$34.99 per year in Australia.
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