I’ve just checked up on a couple of things, and the maximum capacity of iTunes Match is a bit higher than I thought it actually was, at 25,000 tracks; I thought it was 20,000, and my library currently has around 19,000 items in it, 170Gb, so I could use it.
The problem is that 25,000 is the maximum available, and I keep adding music, sometimes several hundred tracks at a time from a mate who just keeps buying new albums. (Far more disposable income than I have).
It wouldn’t take me too much time to get up to the limit, at which point wierd things start to happen, apparently.
While Match may not actually replace my library on my computer, I can’t see the point in having access to my music from other locations that’s poorer quality than what I have at home, that’s just daft. I’ve got nearly 160Gb on my Classic, at 320Kb, and at some point I’ll replace that with a Fiio player that takes SDXC cards, with a theoretical maximimum capacity of around 1Tb, two 512Gb cards.
If Match upped its game, with more capacity, and higher quality, at least 320Kb, even better Lossless, then I might entertain it, however, it costs money, and I’m already paying for extra capacity for photo storage, so something has to give.