“Apple has officially launched its cloud-based iTunes Match service in numerous countries, with the news coming on the heels of reports saying the company promised to refund customers who subscribed to a premature launch on Wednesday,” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider.
“Following an accidental launch on Wednesday, Apple is officially rolling out iTunes Match to countries outside the U.S. and Brazil, with users seeing changes in their respective iTunes Stores granting them access to the service,” Campbell reports. “Apple’s subscriber-based music matching service was thought to have gone live on Wednesday but the sign-up page was removed and refunds were promised. The page was reinstated on Thursday, allowing users to once again sign up for the service.”
Campbell reports, “The multi-country release of iTunes Match is confirmation that Apple >secured a deal for cloud-based music distribution outside the U.S. and Brazil, as reported in September.”
More info and screenshots in the full article here.
Match is now available in Canada… currently in the middle of uploading 7,760 songs — I guess I didn’t match very many 🙁
Now the rest of the world can join America in releasing a collective yawn.
It seems like Apple’s login system is down. I am locked out suddenly.
So, I’m getting a 5002 error.
“Could not purchase ‘iTunes Match’ An unknown error occurred 95002). There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later.”
Now, my account is for Canada but I am currently in Costa Rica. But all my other purchases work fine.
At 4:45am CST it seems a bit odd that the servers would be overwhelmed.
4:45am CST is 10:45am GMT so Europe is awake and uploading!
I gave out yesterday about the mess up by Apple over the roll-out (post deleted) but what a come back from Apple. For me iTunes Match went smoothly.
So now I feel my music is safe, while stored in two locations plus iTunes Match.
MobileMe, Match, … is Apple making too many of the wrong mistakes ?
nope. If you seriously feel that these are mistakes then you my friend are mistaken!
iTunes Match now available in México! It’s a service not for all, I warn you. Evaluate it before Subscribing.
Is it just me, or is there a real campaign, to make Apple look bad through the exaggeration, way out of proportion, of every minor glitch since Steve Jobs returned to his home planet?
Why use two sentences when one will sort of work?