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on iCloud, including music that you’ve ripped from CDs and didn’t purchase through iTunes.  This way you’ll be able to stream your entire library from any Apple device connected to iCloud without taking up any storage. 
     
    The songs are “matched” by Apple’s online music database, so when you are playing the song on your iPhone, for example, it isn’t actually the same file that you uploaded or purchased.  Rather, it’s Apple’s version of the song in full 256 Kbps, even if the song you originally uploaded or purchased was of lower audio quality.  If the song is not found on Apple’s own servers (your cousin’s Whitesnake cover band perhaps), it will playback the original file you uploaded, with the original audio quality. 
     

     
    Unfortunately, iTunes Match isn’t free.  If you’d like to sign up for it, expect to pay $24.99 for a yearly subscription.  Signing up for Match does have another perk though – if you enjoy using iTunes Radio but can’t stand the ads, purchasing the yearly Match subscription will remove ads from Radio. 
     
    Radio
    Radio is a free music streaming service by the music lovers at Apple.  Based on several different factors, Apple creates radio stations that you will probably enjoy.  As you listen to different things, the stations will become more and more personalized, playing songs that are more in line with what you’ve been recently listening to and avoiding the ones you haven’t played.

     
    If you would like to explore the radio a little more, you can browse through artist-curated playlists created with a specific goal in mind, or just search by genre.  You may also find First Plays, which allows you to listen to entire albums before buying them.  This feature only works on select albums, however, so don’t expect to find every album available for First Play. 
     

     
     
    Creating a Radio Station
To play a new radio station, open up iTunes and click on the Radio tab. 
If this is the first time you’ve used Radio, you will have to click on the blue button that says Start Listening. 
When Radio fully loads, you will notice that the top half of the window is filled with premade radio stations like Smooth Jazz, Classic Rock, iTunes Weekly Top 50 Dance, or Pepsi Pulse Pop if you like listening to bubbly pop backed by a giant soda company.  Clicking on one will automatically start playing that radio station. At the bottom of the screen you can also toggle explicit language on or off. 
If these stations just aren’t cutting it, you can create your own by clicking the gigantic + button that says Add Station. 
You can choose a genre as a starting point; or, if you’d like to be more specific, use the Search bar to enter the name of an artist, song, or genre that you’d like to listen to.  The results will be similar music to what you originally searched for. 
The station will begin playing and you can see the track information at the top of iTunes, but the main difference with Radio is that since you don’t already own the music, you’ll be able to see how much it would cost to buy the song currently playing.
     
    iTunes Store
    If you don’t own any music yet and are looking to build a digital song collection, or if you own music but would like to add new tracks, the iTunes store is where you can browse, purchase and download new music.  In addition to music you can also buy movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and books. 
     

     
    Clicking on the Search bar in the top right-hand corner will pull up trending searches in case you are looking for what’s hot.  If you are looking for a specific song or movie, type it into the Search bar and iTunes will load it for you.  Scroll through the main page and the latest releases will be shown front and center, letting you see new music at a glance. 
     
    On the right side of the screen you will see Music in big letters, with All Genres under it.  Clicking the All Genres link opens a dropdown menu