ITunes Match launching soon? Apple reveals an on/off switch in iOS 5

Apple has added an iTunes Match on/off switch in accordance with the music tab of iOS 5′s settings application, which could signal that indicate that company is planning to launch the cloud-based music service in the near future.

iTunes Match is a music service that gives legal access to any songs currently in your iTunes music library. For $25 a year, subscribers can download their songs from Apple’s cloud from any device running iOS 5 with no additional cost. The service is scheduled to roll out earlier the end of October, according to Apple.

Originally, the service was intended to launch alongside version 10.5 of the iTunes desktop client, however Apple pushed it to the then update.  Presumably, the public release of iTunes 10.5.1 will enable Apple clients to sign up for the service.

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