Why Bother with iTunes Match?

Given that there are two other easy options for accessing your music from your Apple TV, you may wonder why you should bother using iTunes Match on your Apple TV. It’s a fair—and smart—question.

As it turns out, there are several benefits to using iTunes Match for music streaming on your Apple TV:

• You don’t need anything else turned on. Because iTunes Match stores your music in the cloud, you don’t need any other computers turned on (consuming all that extra electricity), and you don’t need to keep iTunes running on those computers all the time, either.

• By eschewing AirPlay, you don’t needlessly drain the battery on your iOS device. Even if your iPad isn’t using its built-in speakers to play your music, it’s still using power to play and stream it to your Apple TV.