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Digital
iCloud will allow streaming
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 31 August 2011
Apple has released a beta version of their iTunes Match feature to developers, which is interesting more because of what it tells us about the wider iCloud service.
iTunes Match is the bit of Apple’s new licensed digital locker service which scans your digital music collection, and gives you access to any tracks already stored in the Apple catalogue without you having to upload them. But we sort of knew how that would work already.
The interesting bit of news is that developers checking out the Match bit have confirmed that iCloud will let users stream music stored in their iTunes digital locker to any net-connected Apple device. Previously it wasn’t clear if streaming would be an option, or whether users would have to download music to each gadget they accessed their iCloud account from.
iCloud with Match will launch in the US this autumn, and over here next year.
