iTunes Match - do "uploaded" songs count towards my iCloud 5gb?

[arcsbite]

itunes matched about 10,000 of my 16,500 songs and it says it will upload the rest
will these files be included/account towards my 5gb iCloud allowance?

cheers

 

[blevins321]

No - it doesn't count towards the 5GB limit. It counts towards the 25,000 song limit. Unlimited purchased song storage, 25,000 either uploaded or matched.

 

[arcsbite]

So I can upload/match up to 25,000 and on top of that anythingI buy from iTunes?
that's pretty awesome.

for some reason I had it in my head that it was this but also anything they didn't match that had to be uploaded was taken from your iCloud storage

so basically £21.99 a year to be able to listen to my music anywhere I have signal without the need for storage or a remote server of my own, I'm impressed.

No - it doesn't count towards the 5GB limit. It counts towards the 25,000 song limit. Unlimited purchased song storage, 25,000 either uploaded or matched.

 

[blevins321]

Yeah, that's what everyone thought when it first came out, but it turns out that Apple decided to be really generous 🙂. Gotta admit - they're probably not making a dime from the deal (all towards the record companies), but it's a brilliant way to draw people into the iTunes Store ecosystem.