Do not rush to unsubscribe from iTunes Match in the transition to the Apple Music

Just a few days ago Apple Music It is now available to all comers. Service was very good, and collected a lot of positive reviews from users. But it was not without issues. Some of them are associated with the technical details and soon will surely be eliminated. But to deal with more global defects, such as collisions with the rights to the music in the Apple Music and iTunes Match, it will be more difficult. So hurry to close the old subscription is not necessary, they are still useful.

The main functions of iTunes Match and Apple Music similar. Both services let you first download your entire iTunes library in the cloud, both allow to download files from there to listen. However, in the second case there is a small difference. When your own songs are downloaded to a computer or other device through the iTunes Match, it is not added to the DRM. And Apple Music adds. To all, including your personal records.

The Apple Music Digital rights are used for offline listening. Without them, all users could take a song from any service and always leave a file in your collection, which is tantamount to stealing. But now "steal" you can not even own tracks. Even if you record something on tape, it is loaded in the Apple Music cloud and try to download again. Download course work, but to listen to have to enter your password on the Apple Music. And when the subscription to the service is over, open the file will not be possible.

Thus, all customers who have canceled a subscription to iTunes Match in favor of Apple Music, in fact deprived of rights to their record. Whether it is a copy of the songs to license disks, files from the recorder that you want. Now it all belongs to Apple, and without paying Apple Music you lose access to the data files.

So if you have not had time to cancel your subscription to iTunes Match, better to wait until full clarity regarding the rights record. Let's hope that this is just an unfortunate mistake and after the negative reaction of Apple users still return the right to personal files to people, rather than leave them for himself.

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