iTunes match NOW AVAILABLE in Australia!

Good job~ Enjoy it!

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/12/did-apple-accidentally-launch-itunes-match-in -the-uk-europe-and-australia

It was a stuff-up.

Expect your money back soon.

It's working for me now as well. Bought the subscription last night and now it's scanning and uploading all my music.

Mine's done. ~16,000 songs. iPhone now has a large proportion of my home library available with the cloud symbol next to the songs in the cloud.

And yes, I'm in Australia. 😁

Same

My iTunes Match (in Australia) went well. Of 11,000 songs it matched 9,800 and uploaded the others.

In all it took about 24 hours to catalog, check, match and upload the library.

I'm going to start the process of deleting my lower quality match songs and then re-downloading them in 256kbps AAC. This for me was one of the key reasons for getting iTunes Match. All the stuff I ripped off CD years ago was 128kbps MP3 and this is an easy way to upgrade the quality.

There's some issues with Smart Playlists getting stuff, but this is widely reported around the web, so not much of a surprise.

iPhone setup with iTunes Match without a hitch. I can now get to any song in my library. Sweet.

Mine is currently taking a long time to sync/upload, but it is working slowly. I guess that's what I get for having 2-hour long essential mixes in my collection

I subscrbied for iTunes Match last week, and it's been really good. The ability to have all my library available on my iPhone is fantastic. It matched about 11,000 songs (I can't remember the exact figure) and there were 8,000 or more songs that needed to be uploaded. Unfortunately, the upload speeds are a touch slow. Most of the stuff that had to be uploaded were a lot of classical albums and even some classical albums that are available in the iTunes Store that I had to join tracks for back in the days when iPods had that awful gap between songs. Bear in mind that it isn't as instant as playing songs on your device locally as t takes a few seconds to start playing the song, but I think it's definitely worth it. Don't use it within your 3G network. That will eat up your quota like there's no tomorrows. Luckily, my ADSL provider is iiNet where iTunes downloads don't count towards your quota.

It is available, and I have subscribed. See this:

http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/apple-itunes-match-now-available-in- australia/

Good luck Australia!!! iTunes match is full of bugs in the US. Lost album artwork, empty playlist, lost albums and so forth. All in my iPhone and iPad. Just read threads around. Very bad service. Save ur money!!!

all good with my itunes match. took me about 5 days to upload all the songs in my library 9000 songs. love it so far. worth it $35.00 per year.

You are right, El Chubasco. There are some bugs, but since this is a 1.0 release, then that is acceptable. It's probably best if you play albums from top to bottom and don't shuffle them for the time being. I'm sure Apple will fix these things in an iPhone software update.

Where I see the benefit of iTunes Match is having an offsite backup of all my music. That way, say if your computer and even your backup drive that you use for Time Machine die in a fire, then you have a backup of all your music. I think it's worth it.