Developers get notification that the music-matching service is about to launch publicly

Nov 14, 2011 08:36 GMT  ·  By

The fruity company in Cupertino, California has issued a new notice to developers with information that iTunes Match is about to launch to the masses.

In a message delivered to all registered developers testing iTunes Match, Apple revealed that iCloud libraries would be deleted, as the company gears up to launch the music-matching feature to the general population.

Apple’s email said “As we prepare for the launch of iTunes Match, we will be deleting all current iCloud libraries on Saturday, November 12th at 10 AM PST.”

In the meanwhile, the Mac maker seeded the third (and likely final) beta of iTunes with instructions to continue looking for bugs in iTunes Match.

Apple is known to have missed its original deadline for the public release of iTunes Match, but the company seems poised to have it the hands of end-users as soon as possible.