Indeed, 'matched' songs that you have downloaded to your iOS device or computer will stick around after you cancel your yearly iTunes Match subscription. What happens to the downloaded iTunes Match files next year if someone doesn't pay the $25? I've heard rumors that you get to keep the files. Is this true? How quickly that will happen depends on whether your other devices have an Internet connection active, but in an ideal situation, it shouldn't take longer than seconds for song ratings to make it through the cloud.

Since iTunes Match will sync your music's metadata anytime it changes, your ratings will eventually make their way to your other devices. As pointed out by our own commenter nathanziarek, music ratings are just synced as metadata across iCloud. Will iTunes Match sync this information too? I rate songs all the time from my iPhone, and those ratings are reflected in iTunes when I manually sync with my computer. Neither of those are ideal, of course, but if you really love those DJ sets, your options are limited. You could attempt to re-encode the file at a lower bit rate or a different format in order to trick iTunes Match into uploading it for you, or you could try to chop up the file into multiple parts and keep them in sequential order in a playlist. That's correct! iTunes Match doesn't upload files over 200MB, as confirmed by an Apple support document on the topic. I'm having trouble syncing some long DJ sets whose files are 200MB and up. Now that a few days have passed, however, Ars readers have followed up with even more questions about how the service works, so we're happy to provide even more answers. Photograph by Aurich Lawson reader comments 75 withĪpple launched its iCloud-based music service iTunes Match this week, and we tried to answer a handful of your most popular questions immediately after the launch.

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