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They don’t change your files. iTunes / Apple Music match your with their catalog and basically flip a flag that says this song is in your library. If a song is
by alphabettsy 4y ago
They don’t change your files.
iTunes / Apple Music match your with their catalog and basically flip a flag that says this song is in your library. If a song is in your library you can download the file on other devices, same as if you purchased the song from them.
If I download the song from iTunes via Match it’s a DRM-ed version because they don’t upload files that match the music catalog so there’s no original to download.
- epgui 4y agoI can guarantee you that they either currently do change your files, or did at some point in the past. My entire catalogue of music imported from physical CDs was switched to different files, with different metadata and all (overriding my manual classification), and sometimes replacing uncensored versions with radio-safe versions, etc, sometime after 2010. This caused me to stop buying music altogether.
- merb 4y agoif you import files in iTunes they get converted to aac
- nier 4y agoYour experience matches mine. Quite frustrating.
- js2 4y agoI think there was a bug in an early release of the matching feature that replaced the files, but it hasn't done that in ages (unless it's become buggy again). Years ago I let it match all my content, backed up my original files, deleted them from disk, then let iTunes pull down the higher quality matched versions.
- secretsatan 4y agoThis was my experience with early versions of apple music, i had to restore from backup. I will never trust it
- jerryzh 4y agoI can guarantee you it is not true. If the matched song is removed from itunes store, I can only listen to it on my MacBook and cannot stream or download it on my iphone