Apple Launches iTunes Match in 19 More Countries

After updating the terms and conditions of iTunes Match signaling the upcoming arrival of the service in Netherlands, Apple also quietly began rolling out the service to additional countries across Latin America.

iTunes Match arrived in the Netherlands on Monday, but Apple pushed out the service to numerous other countries soon thereafter. iTunes fans in a total of 37 territories are now able to upload their music to iCloud and access it anywhere on their iPod, iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC.

The new Latin American countries getting iTunes Match this week are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Honduras, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.

Latin America recently got access to Apple’s iTunes Music store, making the iTunes Match rollout a logical step in Apple’s expansion.

In light of the roll-out, Apple updated its Inside iTunes site with detailed information about the service.

According to the Mac makers, “iTunes in the Cloud stores your purchased music in iCloud for free. Subscribing to iTunes Match adds the music you've imported from CDs or bought elsewhere to the library of music in the cloud. It then gives you direct access to your whole music library via the Music app on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.”

The company explains that users can play back a song that is not stored on the device they’re using by downloading it from the cloud, and “if there's particular music you always want on a particular device--even if you don't have an Internet connection--use the cloud icons and Download All buttons in the Music app to add them.”

“As you learn to trust your cloud access to your whole library wherever you're connected, you'll discover that you worry less and less about how much storage space you need on a device for your music,” Apple concludes.