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Isn't Apple Music a superset of iTunes Match? I believe Apple Music also includes the ability to match or upload 100,000 of your own songs.

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I hope this is not the case, because it would mean that I'm currently being charged twice for the same service.

I had been paying for iTunes Match since it was released, but when I started paying for Apple Music I canceled my Match subscription.

As an Apple Music user myself, I believe iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library functionality are included if one has Apple Music.

The ability to listen to some of the music I have that's not available on streaming services is one huge reason I chose Apple Music over Spotify.

Apple Music has a match feature, but from what I understand the songs include DRM. iTunes Match is DRM-free.

Which if you are maintaining a subscription to Apple Music, the DRM thing really doesn't matter.

I still made a backup of everything before turning Match off :)

It does when music gets taken off the catalog, which happens pretty frequently in my experience.

Yes, but I have not had stuff that dropped off Apple music drop off my library that was previously matched.

Now whether I could, say, rip a CD, match it and it would stay forever like it did with Match - that is an interesting question.

This is THE reason I have stuck with iTunes Match and not bought into Apple Music. I have a hard time believing that Apple Music--as a product and team within Apple--cares about music I've ripped and uploaded, and will persist it properly over time.

In contrast, handling that job correctly is the entire purpose of iTunes Match. Even if it is essentially abandonware within Apple, as long as it keeps working I will use it.

You are. I dropped match last year and nothing changed.

It's a little annoying they don't remind folks that if you have Apple Music, you really don't need match any more.

I explicitly asked Apple about this years ago and they said I needed to keep iTunes Match. Was my CSR mistaken? I assumed it was for my tracks that are not available on Apple Music.

iTunes Match gives you access to all of your music on all of your devices, even songs that you've imported from other sources such as CDs. If you have an Apple Music membership, you get all of the benefits of iTunes Match, plus access to the entire Apple Music catalog. May 21, 2020

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146

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