Sams Teach Yourself iCloud in 10 Minutes

Lesson 6. Using iTunes Match with Your Music

In this lesson, you learn how to use iTunes Match to make your music available from the cloud so you can stream it to your iOS devices and computers.

Understanding iTunes Match

iTunes Match puts all of the music in your iTunes Library on the cloud so you can download and stream that music to your devices over the Internet. This makes your music available to you wherever you are (assuming you have an Internet connection in that location, of course). iTunes Match works for all the music in your Library, not just for music you’ve purchased from the iTunes Store (which, as you learned in Lesson 5, “Using iCloud with Your iTunes Music, Apps, and Books,” you can download directly to any of your devices at ...