By: Nick Gambino
In case you’re one of those avid digital music collectors and also an iTunes user, you’ll be happy to know that Apple just upped their iCloud storage from 25,000 songs to 100,000.
That gives Apple a one-up over other digital music platforms like Google Play Music which offers “storage” for up to 50,000 songs. Though that might seem like a big gap between the two (and it is), Google Play Music offers this service for free. Apple on the other hand requires either you subscribe to iTunes Match for $24.99 per year or $9.99 per month for Apple Music.
I’m sure Apple isn’t worried about detractors though as they’ve already brought in 6.5 million subscribers to Apple Music in the last 6 months. That extra $60 million + in revenue probably doesn’t hurt any.
iTunes Match launched back in 2011 as a solution to “Where do I store all of my digital music?!” 25,000 tracks seemed fine for a while as that’s easily north of 1,000 albums but once Apple Music arrived it became a problem.
Apple Music launched in June 2015 as a direct competitor to streaming music platforms like Spotify. It allowed users to stream all music from the iTunes store and even add them to their library or set them offline to listen to them when not connected to the internet.
For a fixed price of $9.99 a month we can now add as many tracks as we like to our library, making that 25,000 track limit more of a roadblock than an insurmountable goal. So this 100,000 limit was a welcome gift.
Not that this increase wasn’t expected as Apple Exec Eddy Cue first announced it via Twitter back in June, it’s only that it was expected with the release of iOS 9 in September. Oh well, better late than never. At least we got it.
Now some possibly haven’t seen their limit increased just yet but don’t worry it’s rolling out steadily but surely as Cue confirmed to MacRumors.
Score 1 for Apple, now let’s see what Google Play Music and Spotify have up their sleeves.
