grotesquery

I'm one of the lurkers who don't post, simply because I have no useful knowledge to contribute--but I'll take a stab at this topic. Instead of removing the subscriber badge directly, perhaps the option to remove could be offered as a paid "upgrade," so the the "advertisement" effect (if that is the original intention) could retained, and if one really wanted to support the site (and since "money isn't the issue"), one could pay a little extra to have the badge removed. This way the difference in status is no longer obvious since everyone who doesn't have the badge could potentially be a "super elite" subscriber, and there is thus no automatic indication of hierarchy.

1. Accuracy does not seem to have improved substantially (much material in the iTunes catalogue is still uploaded rather than matched)--I don't know if things would improve by starting a totally new library, but simply pressing update iTunes match does not noticeably help. 2. This has not happened to me. It does replace--with explicit warning--all music files on the iOS device on which the service has been activated. 3. iTunes match retains all metadata, so unless you trigger an update of the metadata, there should be no change. However, iTunes match does not sync "part of a compilation" very gracefully--a compilation may end up as separate albums in match. 4. Yes--unless airline regulations say otherwise. 5. I do not understand this point. 6. No experience on this.