iTunes Match Launches In 19 New Countries: Latin America, Baltics, Netherlands

Earlier today, we noted that  iTunes Match had started going live in Netherlands, following news of last week of a contract between Dutch, a copyright oversight group Stemra/Buma and Apple. However, as compared has now detailed on its availability page of iTunes Match, a service actually introduced in nineteen different nations today focusing on Netherlands, Latin America and Baltic States. The entire list of new markets are Bolivia, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Estonia, Latvia, Honduras, Netherlands, Lithuania, Panama, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela and Paraguay.

The additions of today bring plenty of nations with iTunes Match availability to 37 with Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, also attaining iTunes in Cloud compatibility with music videos and music for first time. The South American nations watching this feature debut has iTunes in Cloud functionality that enables users for re-downloading content plenty of times to gadgets associated with iTunes Store accounts. The iTunes Match was introduced in the month of November 2011 for the price of $24.99 and allows customers to match and scan tracks in iTunes music library such as tracks copied from other sources or CDs with trucks in iTunes Store. The company enables users for downloading around 25,000 tracks with the speed of 256Kbps DRM free AAC file format.

At present, iTunes Match is available in Belgium, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Ireland, Mexico, Malta, Slovakia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, United States and United Kingdom.