iTunes Match released in Australia and Beyond
Despite a bumpy start, Apple has released iTunes Match for iTunes in Australia and resolved issues previously reported overnight. User are now able to Click on the ‘iTunes Match’ icon within iTunes, and sign up for the $34.99 service within Australia.
Twitter users have been tweeting from countries as far as the UK, Ireland, Canada and Mexico, stating that the service is also being rolled out. 
Although Apple have not officially released iTunes Match to market, the service is Now Live, and accepting subscriptions from user.
Upon testing the service this afternoon, the known errors that were appearing yesterday, and no longer appearing, and the iTunes Match services is allowing you to authorise machines via iTunes and scan the local libraries of your MAC or PC.
To ensure that your PC/MAC is set up correctly for iTunes Match, you will need to ensure that Apple iTunes 10.5.2 is downloaded or updated on your computer.
Click to Download iTunes 10.5.2 or Run iTunes Software Update
What is iTunes Match?
For AU $34.99/Per year, iTunes Match is an iCloud based streaming service, that will analyse your local iTunes library, and provides a copy of your latest music track or album in the iCloud via iTunes.
How does iTunes Match Work?
Once you have subscribed and selected iTunes Match from within iTunes, the service will analyse the contents of your library, and match as many songs from the 20 + Million songs that are available from within the Apple iTunes catalogue.
For someone with multiple computes, iPhones, iPads etc, this is a major win, as this service provide a copy of your favourite track, or album on up to 10 devices without having to sync and download to every device. Once iTunes has identified all of the matched tracks from their extensive catalogue, iTunes Match will then upload up to 10,000 tracks to your iCloud account.
Once tracks have been uploaded to iCloud, simply access your content from any of your various iDevices:
- From your iOS device, select Settings | Music | Enable iTunes Match.
- From your MAC, Open iTunes | select Store Menu | select Turn On iTunes Match
- From your Apple TV | Select Music | iCloud Library
Check out Macworlds – Hands on with iTunes Match by Dan Moren for an extensive review and breakdown of iTunes Match.
