Hi everyone,
I'm really hoping for some advice for some music dinosaurs…
My husband and I both use the same iTunes account. We have a large CD collection (700+ albums), and a small number of digital purchases. We currently run iTunes from our mac, with the music library stored on a NAS drive (as we're really mindful of clogging up the mac), and listening both through the mac, and our iPhones. The NAS does slow things down considerably, and we're always left with this annoying situation of having to periodically re-point iTunes to the NAS as the location of our music.
As an aside, we've been looking at signing up for iCloud storage for backup purposes, and this got us into thinking about whether there might be something different we could do for our music. This led to us researching iTunes Match etc and we're a little confused..
1 - could we backup our iTunes music library in iCloud storage so that we could restore the library should our NAS fail?
2 - If we were to also sign up to iTunes match, would it be a solution that would allow us to eliminate the NAS from our iTunes setup, apart from the purpose of having a local backup..so, at the moment, if we open iTunes when the NAS isn't connected, it defaults the library back to our internal hard drive, and then it takes ages to reset. I don't think we'd be able to get away from that in that we'd have to keep our iTunes library location as the NAS, so that we could carry on importing CDs and therefore wouldn't get around this problem, but if anyone knows better, or can recommend an alternative setup, that'd be great!
Thanks,
I'm really hoping for some advice for some music dinosaurs…
My husband and I both use the same iTunes account. We have a large CD collection (700+ albums), and a small number of digital purchases. We currently run iTunes from our mac, with the music library stored on a NAS drive (as we're really mindful of clogging up the mac), and listening both through the mac, and our iPhones. The NAS does slow things down considerably, and we're always left with this annoying situation of having to periodically re-point iTunes to the NAS as the location of our music.
As an aside, we've been looking at signing up for iCloud storage for backup purposes, and this got us into thinking about whether there might be something different we could do for our music. This led to us researching iTunes Match etc and we're a little confused..
1 - could we backup our iTunes music library in iCloud storage so that we could restore the library should our NAS fail?
2 - If we were to also sign up to iTunes match, would it be a solution that would allow us to eliminate the NAS from our iTunes setup, apart from the purpose of having a local backup..so, at the moment, if we open iTunes when the NAS isn't connected, it defaults the library back to our internal hard drive, and then it takes ages to reset. I don't think we'd be able to get away from that in that we'd have to keep our iTunes library location as the NAS, so that we could carry on importing CDs and therefore wouldn't get around this problem, but if anyone knows better, or can recommend an alternative setup, that'd be great!
Thanks,