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sirbreeze Author

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iTunes Match

When signing up and using iTunes Match, are my original music files altered in anyway?

Posted on Feb 27, 2018 6:17 AM

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ed2345

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Feb 27, 2018 5:37 PM in response to sirbreeze

The original files on your computer are not altered.

However, the matched versions may differ from the originals. Files that match will be the iTunes Store copies, which are in AAC/256 format. Files that do not match may be transcoded to 256 in certain cases.

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