Apple Music Is Apple Music only Matching Songs or Uploading Your Music Files to Cloud?

[NJRonbo]

I had always thought that when a person has an Apple Music subscription, their music library of ripped CDs is scanned, and then the songs are matched (usually with higher bitrate versions) and then propagated to every Mac device they own.

However, it seems that a lot of obscure music remixes and even mashups I have are being uploaded and made available across my devices.

So, this begs me to ask, is Apple taking all my music files, storing them in the cloud, and making them available for listening?

 

[coffeemilktea]

I think the files are being uploaded and stored in the cloud, purely because I've got some songs that I know don't exist on Apple Music or the iTunes Store, and I'm able to play them across all devices now.

 

[NJRonbo]

I think the files are being uploaded and stored in the cloud, purely because I've got some songs that I know don't exist on Apple Music or the iTunes Store, and I'm able to play them across all devices now.

Right. My exact observation.

Yet, search for the topic and Apple doesn't admit to storing personal files in the cloud that can't be matched.

Thanks for your answer. I'm trying to get a consensus on this and hope more people chime in

 

[WebHead]

It's always been the case that unmatched tracks are uploaded so your whole library is available in the cloud. In my experience that's been about 15% of my songs.

But yes, I see that the official description no longer says that. Maybe they're trying to keep it simple by only saying it uploads your "library".

As an aside, I've been meaning to research a way to force-rescan my unmatched tracks now that the fingerprinting tech has improved and more songs have been added to the store.