What about HUGE libraries?

Question

I have well over 500 GB of music, the huge majority of which is not going to be in Apple's library. If I'm lucky they'll be able to match a quarter of that.
What about the rest of it? Live recordings, rips from old LPs/45s/78s, foreign stuff that's not in the iTunes store? 5 GB of storage or 20,000 songs isn't going to scratch the surface. And are they going to try to sync 300+ GB of music onto my phone?  Do they really want me to spend months uploading all this stuff into the cloud?
And how are they going to match these files? Audio fingerprints or by tags? I don't mind getting nice 256K copies of some of the stuff that I ripped from CD at 128K--but if they are trying to replace a beloved scratchy vinyl copy of a song with a shiny digital one because the song and artist match...that's not good.
I know this is an unusual situation but I would love to know where I can find out more information about this sort of detail.

Answer 1

Babaganoosh wrote:
Edit: Here is what Apple says about this:
"Your purchased music, apps, and books, as well as your Photo Stream, don’t count against your free storage. That leaves your mail, documents, Camera Roll, account information, settings, and other app data. "
That seems to indicate that the 5GB is not taken up by music, whether or not it's purchased or that which falls under 'Match'.
No, that would indicate that if it is purchased from the iTunes store it does not count against the limit.
If it was not purchased from the iTunes store and does not "Match", it will count against the 5GB limit.