Will I need to buy itunes match?

Question

I will be living in Argentina for 9 months and will be taking my ipad mini down as my "computer" so I wanted to buy some icloud storage, possibly 10GB, but my question is that doesnt support the music I have on my devices does it? My ipad is 64GB and my iphone is 16GB so I was hoping while I was down there I could share my music between both the devices. Will I have to buy itunes match for that? and if I do will it work in a forgein country?

Answer 1

iTunes Match will host the iTunes library on your computer (up to 25,000 songs, not including songs purchased from the iTunes store) and make it available on all your devices as long as they are signed into the Apple ID used to subscribe to iTunes Match in Settings>iTunes & App Stores and have iTunes Match enabled.  You subscribe to iTunes Match from iTunes on your computer.
If you are planning on purchasing media while in Argentina, you will need an iTunes account with a local address (requires a credit card with a local address).  However, if you subscribe to iTunes Match while you're here, your devices will be associated with the ID used for the subscription.  Once a device is associated with an ID in this way, it cannot be associated with a different ID for 90 days.  This would pose a problem since you may wish to change to an Argentinean ID while you're there without waiting 90 days.  This would mean you would want to wait to subscribe until you are there.
If I were you, I would contact iTunes store support to find out exactly what the rules are before deciding what to do.  You can contact them here: http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html.