HT204962: iCloud Music Library: Understanding differences between Apple Music and iTunes Match

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Q: Do I need iTunes Match as well as iCloud music library?

I have a lot of music on my imac, and in my iTunes library, that isn't available on iTunes - this would mainly be ripped CDs or music I've digitised from cassettes, LPs etc.

 

when I switch on the iCloud music library some of these songs appear in my Apple Music but a lot are just sT there with iCloud status 'waiting'.  There are a lot of questions about this waiting status it I haven't found an answer that fixes my issue.

 

i Have seen at least one post that suggests I need to get iTunes Match as well so that will upload my songs and then they can be picked up by the iCloud music library but some of the songs seem to have already been uploaded so that doesn't seem right.

 

if it isn't right is there any reason why you would have both?

 

thx

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Intel 3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo

Posted on Sep 4, 2015 11:34 PM

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