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Here’s how iTunes Match works

Quote from the review (see link below for complete review)

"Instead of making you upload your song files to Apple’s servers, iTunes Match scans the iTunes library on your Macs or Windows PCs, then matches the titles you have with the 20 million songs Apple has the right to distribute via its iTunes store. If your songs are included in that 20 million, Apple simply places them in your online locker. In almost all cases, users will be left with only a small remnant of songs to upload—such as recordings by garage bands. (ITunes Match works only for digital music, not movies, TV shows or audiobooks, even if they’re available in iTunes.)

Once the songs are in the cloud, they also appear in your library in iTunes on computers, or in the Music apps on iPads, iPhones and iPod touch devices. You can stream the music, or press an icon with a downward arrow inside a cloud to download it. You can include up to 10 devices in iTunes Match. Plus, iTunes Match—which costs $25 a year for up to 25,000 songs—covers any song you own, regardless of how you obtained it. That includes songs purchased from non-Apple music services or imported from CDs, or even those that were downloaded illegally."


So no it won't upsample a 160 kbps song to 256 kbps, it replaces the 160 kbps song with the same song at 256 kbps from the iTunes store.

I'm not sure what happens to files lower than 256 kbps if they're not in the iTunes store database, however I read at Computer Audiophile that songs higher than 256 kbps are either replaced by the iTunes store version or downsampled to 256 kbps if not in the iTunes store database.

Hope this helps.



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