Have you downloaded iTunes 10.5.1? If you are running on an earlier version, you an purchase match from the store, but you won't have the required menue options. If you follow the guide here step by step you shouldn't have any problems.

Yes. You'll have to authorize that computer for it to connect to your iTunes account and then add it to iTunes Match, but you can.

And before, if you lost them? Yay? Or we're they gone forever? D you not already have some kind of local backup?

You have to delete the local file, but then you can download the higher quality file.

Like Google music that doesn't require every one of your ten bajillion tracks to be uploaded before they're available. And upgrades the quality of tracks that are low in the quality area. And integrates across devices in a cleaner fashion. But sure.

You must be the hundredth person to post something like this. Virtually every article about iTunes Match has pointed out that it's DRM free. iTunes hasn't had DRM on its music for years now.

Well, only if those 25,000 songs all came from somewhere other than the iTunes store.

Yeah, once you've downloaded you have that file. It's not DRMed. You can do with it as you wish. And of course, the $25 is for an entire year (not a monthly thing) so you can cancel it whenever you want in that year and not be charged again.

If you have a backup drive, you could always drop them in that for future re-encoding. Maybe not the most effective method, but that's really the only workaround I can think of.

Yeah, it synchs real songs. There's an actual 256kbs file that is downloaded to your device. It starts playing it after it's buffered, but it isn't just streaming, it's actually downloading.

Whatever you've set to synch synchs. But if you're away from your computer (across the country on a trip) and you regret not putting Abbey Road on your Touch, you can download it (as long as you have an internet connection to do so). You may need to free up some space by removing an album or two that you don't plan to…

Yeah, the problem with a month long trial is that it would effectively nullify the need for a purchase afterward for a good chunk of people. It effectively legitimizes the music you have in your library. They'd be giving you up to 25,000 songs legitimized for free, and you wouldn't lose them at the end of the one…

Nope. And side and under boob isn't even where they draw the line. They have their little "State of the Union Undress" every year and some intern girl strip while talking about everything they've done. I don't know of anyone who has ever come to the conclusion that they want to give up meat and animal products in…

Oh, PETA. You are the most exceptional variety of troll. The one that is so ridiculous you troll yourself. I don't think anyone could lampoon you better than you already have. But, hey, keep making advertisements with naked ladies in them. That will get people to stop wearing leather and eating meat. ;)

That's understandable.

Which will both run you well over the $25 a year that iTunes Match cost, and are completely different in the service they offer. But yeah, they both exist.

Yeah, I've started turning off my computer when I leave the house for more than a few hours. My energy bill dropped well over the $25 a year that iTunes Match cost me.

If it is available on iTunes it gets matched. If it isn't for sale on iTunes, it will get uploaded.

Yes. If your music isn't available on iTunes, it will upload it.

Just a few ;)