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iTunes Match Expands to Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden [Updated]
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I was going to say the same. It is the half priced in Turkey when compared to those countries.
I also would like to say that Match causes an unwanted situation and blocks your ability to change iTunes Store countries. I had to stuck with Turkish iTunes Store and could not have updated or downloaded my apps from cloud that I purchased from U.S store previously. Next week my subscription is going to end and I am not going to extend it only because of this. If anyone planning to subscribe Match and also using both U.S Store and Local Store, consider this before purchase Match.
P.S: about 1.8k out of 2.5k songs got matched including many Turkish tracks.
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Indeed, that was my point that Nordic unambiguously contains all the added countries, and as it wasn't stated that every nordic country had been added, rather just several it's a better fit ( and has now been updated I see ).
As already mentioned, it needs to match existing music a lot better and on a dynamic system. All this trickery of needing playlists showing Matched + <256k tracks just to remove and get the better quality is kind of bogus. Shouldn't have to attempt to re-force it to match existing uploaded low-quality tracks by using tedious steps of deleting/readding either.
Although, I can overlook the RADIO part of it if they'd make the custom tweaks to a radio station store in the cloud. I made myself a Sam Kinison station - it did clone across to all my devices, yes. But the "Don't play X, play more of Y" tweaks do NOT propagate. I ended up switching back to storing music locally instead of streaming.
Although, I can overlook the RADIO part of it if they'd make the custom tweaks to a radio station store in the cloud. I made myself a Sam Kinison station - it did clone across to all my devices, yes. But the "Don't play X, play more of Y" tweaks do NOT propagate. I ended up switching back to storing music locally instead of streaming.
I can't activate iTunes Match yet, even if I get the confirmation from Apple about iTunes Match. iTunes gives me a message that it not works right now.
I have also got the e-mail, but I can't activate it in iTunes.
So basically Apple have charge me 249kr now from my credit card but I can't use the feature.
According to the Apple website, Finland (or Sweden) doesn't have iTunes Match.
Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5085
Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5085
That website was last modified september 18.
I have got the confirmation email from Apple.
I'm not worried about that. They haven't not pushed on the button yet.
I can't get it to work either. Not to mention that Itunes in the Cloud is not working for me. I've bought the same ******* song twice! That's because previously Itunes wouldn't let me see my previous purchased items. So now I've bought the same song twice and it still won't show up in the purchased section! What d** s*** service!
You don't need to have Itunes Match to get Itunes in the Cloud, right?
I am still right on the edge of keeping my Match subscription. They need to up the limit and improve their matching (!!!!). They should have an easily 'report' button for songs that should match from a CD but don't. I can sort of understand them having more trouble with really old, out-of-print versions of albums and songs, and that kind of thing, but for brand new releases it's kind of inexcusable to not match a track because the CD has an extra half-second gap between tracks on it or whatever.
And yes, they need some sort of optional 'do not include in iTunes match' flag, even if they bury it to avoid accidental use.
To anyone signing up, I would caution that when I did it was a nightmare for the first week or so and I almost just asked for my money back. Just be patient and calm and give it a little bit of time if it doesn't work to begin with. The initial setting up and matching is the most painful.
And I highly recommend making a full backup of your music library before you do anything with Match, then put it somewhere safe so that you can go back to it if you find any problems a few months down the line with any music you've replaced.
And yes, they need some sort of optional 'do not include in iTunes match' flag, even if they bury it to avoid accidental use.
To anyone signing up, I would caution that when I did it was a nightmare for the first week or so and I almost just asked for my money back. Just be patient and calm and give it a little bit of time if it doesn't work to begin with. The initial setting up and matching is the most painful.
And I highly recommend making a full backup of your music library before you do anything with Match, then put it somewhere safe so that you can go back to it if you find any problems a few months down the line with any music you've replaced.
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I see it saving $50 on an iPhone. I always got the 32GB before and now I can get away with the 16GB. I keep my iPhone for 2 years and at $25 a year, it's cheaper to do this. I like to keep my music in one app, I can't stand using 2-3 apps to hold my music. Also I can log into iTunes at work and just stream my music, and a lot of my old music is at a lower bit rate so I can download it in a better bit rate. Not needing to re-rip a few 100 CDs is worth it alone. My wife using a iTunes Radio so now she doesn't get commercials either.
You say no need to carry around thousands of songs, but yet you paid $2 for an app so you can have access to all your 14,000 songs in iTunes?
I was just thinking that the other day! I would never have to sync my phone to my Mac again if they did this.
Wrong expansion...
The only expansions they should be focused on should be:
The only expansions they should be focused on should be:
- Allowing users to upload/match more than 20,000 songs (like Amazon Cloud)
- Add more servers to improve performance, it sucks!!!!
Exactly my thought. Sure, everything is not available on Spotify but it does have most of what I want to listen to.
I have no source for this but I think music piracy dropped quite a lot when Spotify became widely available.
Just read the thread.. some people already explained it... or do your own research.. instead of asking stupid question... and double-posting.
/rantover. ;-)
2x the us price in Denmark... wow..
so its 249 DKK or 46$ - that is very close to 2 times the US price.... im not planing on letting apple or who ever is getting the $$ screw me like that.
I have always said once its as easy and fair priced to buy stuff rather than to pirat it I will buy it.
Netflix got it right all the movies i can eat for a fair price, and its easy.
Now give me the same for music. (and yes i know there is spotify but really 100 DKK pr month thats 1200 DKK a year or 225 $ - the US price is 120 $ ... Really why do I have to pay almost 2 times the price for the same digital product - not like its a physical thing that they have to move to the "remot location of Denmark"
so its 249 DKK or 46$ - that is very close to 2 times the US price.... im not planing on letting apple or who ever is getting the $$ screw me like that.
I have always said once its as easy and fair priced to buy stuff rather than to pirat it I will buy it.
Netflix got it right all the movies i can eat for a fair price, and its easy.
Now give me the same for music. (and yes i know there is spotify but really 100 DKK pr month thats 1200 DKK a year or 225 $ - the US price is 120 $ ... Really why do I have to pay almost 2 times the price for the same digital product - not like its a physical thing that they have to move to the "remot location of Denmark"
I wonder if the other countries will get to have explicit lyrics (or an appropriate way to turn it on) LOL?
Probably not.
Probably not.
This will only be relevant for me once they get iTunes radio in Denmark.
But really love that this gave us music in the cloud.
But really love that this gave us music in the cloud.