While the new service appeared briefly to users in the UK, France and Australia on Wednesday, it was quickly snatched away again with Apple promising refunds to those who had signed up.

Match has returned to users today, however, with a year's subscription available for £21.99.

The service scans your hard-drive for music and replaces MP3s with high-quality 256kbps tracks from iTunes. Perhaps more significantly, users can then stream their collection from the Cloud to iOS devices, Apple TV and ...