Apple quietly increases iTunes Match limit to 1,00,000 from 25,000

Apple has quietly increased the limit of uploading songs to iTunes Match from 25,000 to 100,000, according to Macrumors. It lists out that several users are talking about this boost. Similarly, Macworld’s Kirk McElhearn has also listed out several people talking about the change. This four fold increase is not surprising as Apple knows the growing popularity will lead to more people syncing their music to iTunes Match. Moreover, Eddy Cue had also hinted at this in a tweet earlier. He had said that the company is working at increasing the Match limit from 25,000 tracks to 100,000 for iOS 9.

@cue @robmsimoes does Apple Music have the same 25,000 song limit as iTunes Match?

— it’s karl in 🇦🇺 (@karlfranks) June 26, 2015

With this move, Apple will let you store twice the number of songs compared to Google Play Music. However, Play Music is free while Apple Music will cost $24.99 a year for iTunes Match or $9.99 a month. In October, Tim Cook had announced that Apple’s music streaming service has more than 6.5 million paid users. Cook had also said that an additional 8.5 million people are participating in a free trial of the Apple Music service. That gives it more than 15 million users in total, which Cook described as a successful debut.