Apple has vastly increased the number of music tracks users can upload through Apple Music and iTunes Match.
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It looks like Apple has increased the match limit for both its iTunes Match and Apple Music online services, according to a number of reports.
Apple is still showing the 25,000 track limit on their support page, although the limit has now been increased to 100,000, this does not include tracks that you have purchased from iTunes, the limit only applies to tracks you have added to your library. That service was initially labeled iTunes Match, but Apple Music subscribers have also been able to make use of such a feature.
Google Play Music, which is free of charge, is similar to iTunes Match.
Kirk spotted that some users are beginning to see more than 25,000 songs in their iTunes Match libraries. Matching songs also enables users who can not afford the expensive 64GB and 128GB iPhone models through off-loading the local music storage to the cloud. This still means that Apple offers double the capabilities of Google.
In a statement to MacRumors, Cue confirmed that Apple is “beginning to roll out support for 100k libraries”. Cue had suggested the update back in June, following the launch of Apple Music.
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Apple released iOS 9 to compatible devices in September 2016 however at that time there was no update on the match limit raise. Cue subsequently said that Apple was “definitely working on it”, despite having given the timeframe that it would go live before then end of this year.
