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How to manage your iCloud Music Library

F or those with an Apple Music subscription, you can access your local music from any device if it’s logged in with your Apple ID. The iCloud Music Library will store up to 100,000 songs whether you ripped them or bought them from iTunes.

However, there’s another way to get the benefits of that feature without actually paying a subscription to Apple Music. For £21.99 per year, iTunes Match can copy all your music to the cloud and if it has a higher quality version of a song it replaces your one with that one. iTunes Match is limited to 25,000 songs.

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