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I have been personally satisfied with iTunes Match since its launch in our region. Thanks to the use of current Apple TV i more computers and iDevices are a possibility for me to listen to music in iCloudadvantageous. Among the shortcomings for Czech users who have previously purchased multimedia, for example, on a US account in iTunes Store, I see, for example, the impossibility of getting into Czech andCloudfor music videos or some titles, probably due to regional copyright.

On the other hand, the good news is that previously purchased titles that can no longer be purchased or downloaded as previously purchased ( see my previous article ), withCloudwill appear as replaced. However, I would like to dedicate this article to one unpleasant thing that I discovered with this service and which I would like to point out in time. Simply put, what iTunes Match replaces for you may not be the song that you recorded from your legally purchased CD!

In 1994, I bought it as a souvenir during a trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca music CD of classical music, which was played inside of the Dragon Caves complex in the cavernous music hall there. As the publisher is a smaller company from Palma, I did not expect that the collection could be recognized by the service Apple iTunes Match. But the opposite was true and all 13 CD tracks were replaced in better quality compared to my original tracks.

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Replaced album in iTunes Match 5th track "CANON" from this CD

Since this is pleasant music, suitable even for the Christmas holidays, I used an amplifier connected by optics to Apple TV and had this album playing in the background during Christmas Eve dinner. What a disappointment it was with track #5 ( Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel ). Instead of a pure track like on my original CD, a paid service Apple iTunes Match used a song from probably some erotic movie to replace it, where we can hear it in the background the whole time in French.ancin Uzbek, the sighs of a loving couple, including probably another woman... I prove that this is not a New Year's Eve joke (although it could be understood that way) by showing samples of the last minute of the original and the replaced Match file.

ORIGINAL from CD (.mov)     FILE from iTunes Match (.mov)

Much satisfaction, happiness and fun in 2012 not only with the service Apple iTunes Match wishes Miloslav Hofman.

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