aurichie said:I can't see the recording industry ever allowing Apple to store music acquired outside of iTunes. So the service will be pretty useless to me. Most of my music is purchased through Amazon these days and that isn't going to change no matter how cool Apple's service turns out to be.
You guys want to much...how in the hell do you think you are going up upload music bought from amazon into icloud on day one? Or music you ripped from the internet from day one? Its all about itunes in the cloud baby. Get real and get with iCloud!
Amazon will not be dead...but the music industry will come down on them hard for not licensing....same thing to google...Apple once again got the music industry locked up...now if they can do the same with video...its all over.
Yeah, so do artists.I find it so quaint that people still buy music from iTunes.![]()
So, I have to pay $25 to stream the songs that I bought from iTunes?!?! This service is DOA for me if this is really true.
That One Made My DayLol, i just looked. 2 out of my 13,838 songs were purchased from iTunes. I can't wait to access those two from the cloud!![]()
Well lets see how this works on capped data plans for iPhones
Well lets see how this works on capped data plans for iPhones
So if all the Apple service lets me do is stream the music I've already bought, which I probably have on my device anyway.... am I missing something?
I think the idea (at least partially) is to do similar with iTunes purchased music, for those have lots of it especially, as the other services... If you are at a friends place or at work you can just open a browser and log into your iCloud account and access your (purchased) music. No need to transfer files from device to device. Also, I think it will help with the "my iPod doesn't have enough storage space left (after loading it up with video) to store all of my music" problem... What do I want to take with me on the road today?
My 2.5¢
I can't see the recording industry ever allowing Apple to store music acquired outside of iTunes. So the service will be pretty useless to me. Most of my music is purchased through Amazon these days and that isn't going to change no matter how cool Apple's service turns out to be.
I think this serves one main purpose:
It creates an online backup of your iTunes purchases. It's amazing to me how many people buy tons of music on their phones or iPods and NEVER sync them. If you buy $1000 worth of content, don't sync it and then you break or lose your device--you're screwed. This is the first step in eliminating the sync necessity which is overbearing if you use multiple computers/wireless devices.
What if you're a kid who uses iTunes cards to buy content? You do it on your iPod or iPhone and the family computer is a jumbled mess of accounts and craziness. Problem solved.
The iTunes hub/sync thing is outdated, it needs to go and this will be the first step in doing that. I don't expect people to use streaming on a regular basis, and I'll bet Apple doesn't either.
Something I was hoping they'd go through with was allowing people to download their purchases from iTunes more than once if necessary. While that wouldn't be fun having to download $1000 worth of songs, it would be nice to know that you at least wouldn't have to pay for them again (if you didn't back them up)
This is looking more and more like one of the ancient, now-famous threads from when the iPod launched and everyone ranted about how it was a pointless product, it's been done before and better/cheaper/etc. Can't wait to look back in 5 years and see how ridiculous all this looks. This is the future, grumps.
Good start, but Amazon has everything you purchase stored in addition to whatever you already have. Apple's service is substandard if true.
I purchased 0% of my music from iTunes and have no plans to ever buy any music or movies from iTunes either.
Not looking good for me, and others like me is it?![]()
So I had to re-buy the music my mom owned.
First of all, nearly no one has a huge portion of their music bought from iTunes.
Good thing most people don't buy from iTunes.