iTunes 10.5.1 available, iTunes Match opens up

Apple has released iTunes 10.5.1 for immediate download through Apple's site with iTunes Match available. It's not available via Software Update yet, and we will have the full changelog up shortly.

iTunes Match is now available as a feature in iTunes and users can subscribe for US$24.99. It's listed as a beta feature, and beta subscribers are warned that their iCloud libraries will be deleted at the end of the beta. To thank beta testers for their participation, Apple is offering them an additional three months on their subscription.

iTunes Match was announced alongside iOS 5 this summer and originally scheduled to debut at the end of October. Apple missed that goal, but the service is finally available as of today.

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May Thu Kyaw

After I downloaded itunes 10.5.3,itunes does not run properly,cant do anything,even i want to close itune window,i cant close,so i ve to call window task manager and end it.My PC is Window 7,so how can i do? even i made unistall n reinstall ,nothing difference.

February 24 2012 at 5:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kon Krypton

Problems I have found so far: Calculated album ratings don't work.
Older "single of the week" tracks that had DRM are wiped out, to be replaced with downloads of the regular (non-drm) versions. These tracks no longer contain the comments I created, and also lost their ratings.

November 15 2011 at 6:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brinermo

They changed the scrolling directions in the windows back to normal. ("natural" or not I forget which it is). Now it's back to the Snow Leopard style in the iPhone sync windows whereas for a little while they tried forcing the new scrolling in Lion in that area (even running Snow Leopard). Thankfully, I might add.

November 15 2011 at 12:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Erick E Watson

Not available for Australia yet :(

November 15 2011 at 5:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark Elliott

Software Update has the new version, but iTunes Match is NOT available.
I got this message when trying to sign up.. "iTunes Match is temporarily not accepting new subscribers. Check back later."

November 14 2011 at 10:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jim Mitchell

Doesn't seem to be available in Canada yet. I d/l'ed the 10.5.1 update and I don't see anything about the Match service anyhwere in the iTMS.

November 14 2011 at 8:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

4 replies to Jim Mitchell's comment

davidabrooks

I don't see any mention of this being a beta feature. Where is that? I hope that is your mistake!

November 14 2011 at 6:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh Gordon

Does anybody know of a way around the 25,000 non-iTunes song limit? I'd even be willing to pay a premium...

November 14 2011 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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dale bradley

Macworld has an article about this (plus some other tips/tricks/advice):

http://www.macworld.com/article/163599/2011/11/dealing_with_itunes_matchs_25_000_track_limit.html

November 15 2011 at 9:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Yuusharo

The only workaround at the moment is to setup (and manage) two separate libraries, one for iTunes Match, and the other with your entire collection. There are articles online detailing how to do it. Needless to say, it's not an ideal situation, but it works.

November 15 2011 at 2:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian

when i tried to sign up, i got this message: "New subscriptions are currently unavailable. iTunes Match is temporarily not accepting new subscribers. Check back later."

has this been happening on and off all day?

November 14 2011 at 5:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Noah

Not only do you get higher quality versions of the songs you ripped from CD's onto your computer... you can also stream any of the songs matched just by double-clicking on a song in your iTunes library.

The same goes for your iPhone... you can stream any song in the iTunes Match cloud AND your playlists are copied over too. It's my entire music library... in the Cloud. It's pretty slick.

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