In June of this year, just before the public launch of Apple Music, Apple’s Eddy Cue said that the company was working on increasing the limit for its iTunes Match feature, which sat at 25,000 songs.
Cue said that the limit would be increased to 100,000 tracks at some point in the future, and would be possible by way of the arrival of iOS 9. Unfortunately for those waiting for that increase in limit, the launch of iOS 9 didn’t actually see the matching service increase its limit, which is still 25,000 tracks.
The publication MacRumors reached out to Cue recently and asked him about the progress of the match increase, and was rewarded with confirmation that Apple is still “definitely working on it.” Cue would then add that he expect the increase to 100,000 tracks to roll out “before the end of the year.” Unfortunately no exact dates were provided.
Apple’s iTunes Match costs $25 per year, and it allows owners of music that isn’t readily available through the iTunes digital library to upload those tracks to their library for playback, both online and offline. iTunes will also scan the user’s library to find any tracks that might be available in iTunes already, and match those accordingly. For the tracks that are not, those are uploaded directly.
Are you looking forward to the match limit being increased?
[via MacRumors]
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