Can you provide the link to these statistics please?
Um, no... have you heard of Home Sharing?
Oh, apparently you have. So you do realize that having separate accounts doesn't require you to purchase the same app/song twice so your family can enjoy it.
Nothing wrong with that, of course... but not everyone feels the same way. Just because you like something, you can't assume everyone else does (see my reply to your first statement).
Yes, that is the end result of not having to upload the song yourself... which is exactly what I said.
Im trying to figure out who is "sadder", "i" for registering purely to reply to this stupid, unproductive comment or Kahnyl being a convicted, nothing better to do literary do gooder?
I assume that by "your," you mean "you're." No, home sharing wouldn't work that way, but neither would iTunes Match since it's only available in the US at the moment.
You don't have to have a separate iTunes ID to put music on your iPod Touch (there is no such thing as an "iTouch," by the way). You can just sync music directly onto your device in iTunes. I'm sure little Jimmy would be happy to show you how.
Again, you're relating this to your specific personal experience. Maybe iTunes Match isn't a good solution for you, but just because you happen to be an international pilot who isn't in the US half the time doesn't mean that's a common situation for the majority of people who use the service. I don't have an issue with you stating that there isn't a good solution to your personal problem right now, I just don't think it's wise to assume that "most" people feel identical to the way that you do.
It appears (from my less than two hours experience with it) that you have to choose one or the other. The assumption here, I guess, is that all of the music on your iPhone is already in your iTunes library (which would have been synced to the cloud if you're turning Match on in your phone). So in theory, you shouldn't be "losing" anything, just gaining the songs in your library that weren't there before.
Huh. This made me decide to make a smart playlist to filter out those songs so I could upgrade just the ones under 256kbps, and I found this:
I thought songs under 100kbps were not eligible? I certainly have some that are ineligible and under 100kbps, but what about these?
To say the service is wrong because it doesn't fit one group's needs - when it's "a lot of people either way" - is baseless. That's the only point I was making. There are a lot of people for whom the service does make a lot of sense.
Huh. This made me decide to make a smart playlist to filter out those songs so I could upgrade just the ones under 256kbps, and I found this:
I thought songs under 100kbps were not eligible? I certainly have some that are ineligible and under 100kbps, but what about these?
Interesting - I misread this and started updating Genius while Match was "gathering information" and then thought maybe that wasn't a good idea, so stopped Genius update, and it stopped the entire process. I mean *both* of them, so it seems that Match and Genius are linked in some way.