Hi, If you're purchasing these items through the iTunes Store, then they are automatically available to all your devices whether you have iTunes Match or not. Simply go under the iTunes Preferences, select the Store pane and check the box for "Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases". When this is checked, all media purchased through the iTunes Store is available to you to stream or quickly download to any device under the same Apple ID. At the moment, iTunes Match is only used for non-Tunes Store purchased music files. If you have a large collection of music files that you've ripped from CDs and such, then these are not considered iTunes Store purchased items, even though you purchased the physical CD. One of the big benefits of iTunes Match is the ability to upgrade the quality of your personally ripped music. That is, if iTunes is able to match songs that you have within your Library with songs that are available from the Store, you are able to download the better quality version to your personal devices with the iTunes Match subscription.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-10-01, at 12:18 PM, Helena Fehr <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong, but one thing i found when I signed > up for iTunes match was that it only downloaded my music library, and no > audiobooks or movies, or anything else i might have in my iTunes library, and > since at the time I listened more to audiobooks than music, I found it pretty > useless. I thought when I read the information, it was supposed to download > my entire iTunes library, and I spent a pile of money I shouldn't have spent > on getting the largest amount I could with iClout so that my stuff would all > fit, and then I could only put my music on there, but nothing else. I was > pretty frustrated with it. I've found that the best way to keep my music safe > has been for me to set iTunes up so that it views a table-list of all my > songs, select the whole lot of them, and copy/paste them into a folder on an > external hard-drive. I did the same with my movies and books, and anything > else I cared about losing or might want to have on both my computers. For me, > that's as good as iTunes Match, but I don't have to pay any money except to > initially buy the external hard-drive, and now I have iTunes on both my Mac > and on my PC, and both my computers are authorized with my iTunes account so > that no matter where i purchase anything new, it'll automatically appear on > all my devices. It takes time to set up, but at least I have all my music > (And all my audiobooks) on all my devices. > God Bless!!! > Helena > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
