It’s that time of year when my iTunes Match subscription renews and I don’t know what will happen if I cancel it. One day need to figure out how to find iTunes Match tracks that are not on streaming. Or do I even care anymore? Just throwing money into Apple’s services revenue pot.

@manton https://www.threads.net/@panzer/post/Cya9pu9rvi1/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

@manton If you have Apple Music, Match is included. Says so in a doc somewhere.

@mikethefifth Thanks, that’s a good summary.

@manton I cancelled it a couple of years ago, no ill effects as long as you still have Apple Music, best as I can tell. All my old tracks are still there.

@manton In in the same boat. I think it’s safe to cancel, but it’s only $25/yr…

@mikethefifth @manton Thanks for this. That’s a huge caveat I was not aware of when I canceled Match.

@manton I stopped it a few years ago. The songs end up being greyed out. Any way you can retrieve/download the original uploads on your Mac ?

@agiletortoise @manton same here except for tracks missing from Apple Music but are in my collection. For example Genesis Three Sides Live plays different versions than I had on CD. Not noticeable on devices that have my rips but are lost as far as the cloud is concerned. Fortunately I still have all the CDs, which I’m slowly archiving in Lossless.

@Munish I created a smart playlist of just Match songs and I’m going to download them when I find the space. Not sure it’s possible after cancellation.

@manton no you can’t. It just greys out. I did not know back then and lost many tracks. I can find them via Apple Music subscription, but that original music has gone 🥺

@manton I think that if you get a list of MPMediaItems from your Media Library and your Match files are not downloaded locally, Match tracks will have isCloudItem == true && hasProtectedAsset == false

@manton sounds like a plan.

@manton I’ve had it for years from when I burned my hundreds of CDs. Keeping it because I had a lot Hawaiian music CDs that have never gone to streaming