When Match expires, does my cloud-only music transfer to Apple Music?

[valdikor]

I have been an iTunes Match subscriber for years now and recently subscribed to Apple Music. My iTunes Match subscription will be expiring soon. I don't have my music saved locally in my iTunes library, I stream all of my matched/uploaded songs. What will happen to my roughy 25k songs I have in my cloud library? Will they just transfer over to Apple Music, DRM gets applied to them and I don't have to re-upload anything? I hope it's like that. I have a backup of all of my music on an external drive, so I don't worry about losing anything should I ever leave Apple Music, I just don't feel like downloading 230 GB worth of songs to my computer just to re-upload/re-match everything to Apple Music.

 

[Gav2k]

im honestly not sure on which way this would be because I've read several different versions from different sources.

Personally I use match. My music is stored and backed up locally so if there is ever an issue I've got a copy.

 

[Tech198]

I found this:- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146#computeroff

It appears iTunes match and Apple music are two separate services, although they have function similar. I looks like u may have to download your 230Gig

 

[valdikor]

im honestly not sure on which way this would be because I've read several different versions from different sources.

Personally I use match. My music is stored and backed up locally so if there is ever an issue I've got a copy.

I found this:- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146#computeroff

It appears iTunes match and Apple music are two separate services, although they have function similar. I looks like u may have to download your 230Gig

Thanks a lot. What a mess. Although $25 is not a huge price to pay, I really don't feel like paying more than $120 a year to Apple for my music. Especially since I don't care about DRM being applied to my tracks as I have a backup elsewhere, should I need it.

I'd write Apple support on the matter, but their answers regarding anything more than the very basics are extremely incompetent, misleading or outright untruthful.
Actually, I will send them my question as I wrote it here, and I bet I will just get a copy&paste explanation on the differences between AM and Match and nothing related to my actual problem. This has been my experience with most of my support tickets with Apple.