Michal Marek As Apple promised through Eddy Cuo's mouth, he also did. For the iTunes Match service, the limit of uploaded songs has been increased from 25 thousand to 100 thousand. The user can now get four times as many songs from his own collection into the cloud, which are then available to him from any device and from where he can simply stream them.
Eddy Cue, the head of Apple's internet services, promised this increase in connection with the iOS 9 system and also indicated that the increase will occur around the Christmas holidays. Now the company is really fulfilling this promise. Those who have a large music collection, for which the integrated memory of their iPhone is not enough, can especially enjoy it. With iTunes Match, they don't have to have their songs stored locally on the device and still have constant access to them.
iCloud Music Library, i.e. the cloud music library, is part of the iTunes Match and Apple Music services. If you subscribe to Apple Music, for a price of around 160 crowns you get a comprehensive streaming service and at the same time space in the cloud for 100 of your own songs. iTunes Match is a cheaper alternative that only offers cloud storage. The price of iTunes Match remains the same even after the increase in the limit for the number of uploaded songs. You will pay €000 per year for it, which translates to less than 24,99 crowns per month.
So, if I pay for Apple Music, I don't have to pay for iTunes Match anymore, and when my iTM subscription ends (in a few days), my songs in iCloud Library will be kept as "Matched"? I.e. that they don't get DRM applied and they don't go to "Apple Music" status?
If I'm not mistaken, it's not like this yet. They are two different services, with Apple Music being a stream of Apple's entire library, albeit in "lower quality". iTunes Match should be its own library in the cloud, in its own quality or Apple's best quality.
Am I understanding this correctly? And will there be a change in this?