Apple’N’Apps reports: When you’re on a Mac, you can stream music without any files being stored on your device. On your iOS device, if you tapped to play a song, the song plays automatically, but downloads too. In iOS 6, that’s changed, at least in the first beta. Now when you tap to play a […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Comments Off on Apple rolls out iTunes Match page with FAQ and walkthrough video
iTunes Match is Apple’s recently released music portion of iCloud that lets users back up their entire iTunes library for $25 a year. The way it works is that iTunes will scan a user’s library and match it in the cloud with 256-KBps quality songs that can be downloaded onto any iOS device. Importantly, the […]
Continue reading...Monday, November 14, 2011
Comments Off on Apple releases iTunes 10.5.1 – iTunes Match goes live
Well it looks as if we spoke to soon. Shortly after releasing yet another iTunes Beta this weekend, Apple today finally released a new version of iTunes (version 10.5.1 to be exact) that now includes iTunes Match. Again, iTunes Match presents users with a $25/yr option whereby all of a user’s music – no matter […]
Continue reading...Monday, November 14, 2011
Comments Off on Apple releases third beta of iTunes Match, launch date still unknown
iTunes Match was introduced to mild controversy past June. The upcoming service, which sells for a $25/yr subscription, will match a user’s entire existing iTunes library with with 256-KBps quality songs downloadable via iCloud. So whether a user’s iTunes library is filled with burned CDs or consists of thousands of illegaly downloaded songs, Apple will […]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 13, 2011
Comments Off on Steve Jobs briefly discusses Siri and iTunes Match functionality in 2010 [Video]
Apple’s iPhone 4S launches today and Siri, Apple’s AI-based voice assistant, is clearly one of the device’s more compelling features. But there’s more than just an iPhone launch this week. Apple this week introduced iOS 5 while also rolling out iCloud. In the video below, taken from the All Things D conference during the Summer […]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 23, 2011
Comments Off on Survey finds strong interest in iTunes Match amongst iPhone users
Yeah yeah, Apple’s new iCloud service doesn’t support streaming, but it’s all about significant, yet incremental, updates right? Besides, it’s not as if iCloud is completely forgettable. On the contrary, what Apple introduced at WWDC a few weeks ago is pretty darn compelling. We can only hope, of course, that the company has learned from […]
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Comments Off on iTunes Match in iOS 6 now streams music