Called Sting 25, the app tells the artist’s story through ten chapters of concert footage, interviews, photos and music videos. It was created by New York-based @radical.media and its free thanks to ads from Chevrolet and American Express.

Finally. An artist app that lives up to the hype. | LINK

• Sting's Message in an iPad (online.wsj.com)

Give it a try?

Indeed, we've already heard a lot about iTunes Match's 25,000 song limit, but what does that really mean? As we wrote on Monday, the 25,000 limit only applies to tracks that were never purchased from iTunes, so if you have 10,000 tracks from iTunes (the economy thanks you, by the way) and 16,000 that you purchased from Amazon, ripped from CDs, or pirated, only those 16,000 would apply towards the limit, assuming iTunes would be able to match and/or upload them. (More on this in the next question.)

Still, some of you out there may actually have more than 25,000 tracks that never came from iTunes, meaning you're still subject to the hard limit. There are ways to get around this, but unfortunately, it's not as easy as going into a preference pane and checking some boxes for the playlists you'd like to match. As noted byMacworld, the answer involves creating an entirely new iTunes library to which you can copy the non-iTunes tracks you want to match and sync, while leaving out the ones you don't. (Be sure to turn off the option in your preferences that copies files to your iTunes Media folder when adding to the library—if you don't, you'll end up with multiple copies of your files, and your hard drive won't like you.) After performing this procedure, you should be able to switch back to your original iTunes library—the one with iTunes Match turned off—and the ones you matched from the new library will now reside in iCloud.

• Dealing with iTunes Match's 25,000 Track Limit (macworld.com)
• Toggle between iTunes Match and USB (macworld.com)

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Today, the much lauded -- and delayed -- iTunes Match provision of the Apple streaming service made its debut; and, as expected, Apple's servers crashed under the immense weight of it all. No surprise there. But I so wanted to be there! Yes, I have way, way more than 25K tunes in my multi (3) TB library, but, hey -- I want absolution for all of my, um, legal downloads from elsewhere.

• How iTunes Match Works and Whether or Not You Should Subscribe (lifehacker.com)
• Apple's iTunes Match finally goes live (venturebeat.com)
• Apple Finally Launches iTunes Match, Servers Overwhelmed by Demand (readwriteweb.com)

Sometimes it takes something as uninspiring as this to kick off a blog. Heh....