I've got some waitings here, so these haven't completed yet, for one reason or another and even indicates a few duplicate files I've got, so it's not going to upload those. pdfs that were downloads with mountain* so that's not part of it. For instance, if I go back to the top here, I have some Errors and I've got some 'not eligibles', like, for instance, three of these here are. I have 'uploaded,' which means it didn't find it up there, so it uploaded my version of the song. So you can see for normal songs, I get either, say, 'matched,' meaning it found it in iTunes and it's basically matched with the higher quality version up there, so didn't have to upload it. They basically mirror each other—one's an icon and one's a word. By default just the cloud was there and if I go to view and view options I can turn on and off both of these – iCloud download and iCloud status. You can see this first one here has this cloud and there's one called cloud status. So this is what your iTunes library kind of looks like once you have iTunes Match turned on. It'll just know that it's a matched song. Now, if you purchase a song from iTunes, it already knows, of course, that it's there, so it won't bother to do that check. So if you rip a CD that you got, it'll do the same thing. It'll figure out whether it needs to match it or upload it. When you add new songs to iTunes, it'll do the same thing. So, the end result is that all of your music is available in the cloud, whether it's a matched song or whether it's a song uploaded from your computer during this initial process. If it's not in the iTunes database, then it will take your song or the version you have on your computer and upload it to an iTunes match server. So, instead of uploading it, it's basically going to put a check mark next to that song for you, saying that you own that song. So 'matched' means the song already exists in iTunes. So, the basic idea is this: all the songs either get uploaded or matched. Has a bunch of information and after you accept everything and pay the $25 through your iTunes account, it looks like this for a while as it goes and figures out which music you've got on your Mac and whether or not it needs to upload it. So first, what happens when you set it up? Well, you start off you get a screen that looks like this setting up iTunes match. Now, this leaves open a lot of questions. It's a new service, just in the US for now, for $25 a year and what happens is it takes your entire iTunes music collection and puts it in the cloud so you can access it from all your devices. On today's episode, let's take a look at iTunes match. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 632: iTunes Match at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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