For me that is a total brick since I DJ and need to have continuous access to DRM free copies of my songs, especially if my Mac goes down and need to re download the songs.
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Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music Library Matching Limits to 100,000 Tracks
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If that's the case it's worth keeping your iTunes Match subscription going.
Are you sure it won't work the other way round? As in, when you have AM and Match, once you delete a file and re-download it DRM will be applied as the deleted song is "no longer yours"?
Since this is part of your business, you really should be looking into secondary backups of your music files. You won't have to download them again if you have them on another hard drive, time machine backup and use a service like Carbonite. Data is never really thought of being secure unless it's in at least three places, including an offsite backup.
I'm not sure as I wouldn't let Apple Music anywhere near my iTunes library, though it would be pretty crappy if it did.
I thought your iTunes Match subscription entitled you to DRM free downloads of your matched files? It would be pretty pointless signing up to iTunes Match if Apple Music is going to take away one of it's most useful features.
It's worked pretty well for me for about the past 16 years. My favorite artists are still putting out music. The ones that are still alive, anyway.
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It does. I assume Apple Match is the thing that lets you download songs you don't have, but they include DRM that expires when you stop your subscription.
I have it Figured out? =YES,
100,000k songs =Thief,
Music lover? = All my life over 3000 12" vinyl, thats my life purchases
if there are 4 tracks on every 12" thats 12,000 nowhere near 100,000k
Have you been called out and you don't like it?
how many are stolen? and justifying streaming as payment to artists doesn't legalise the stealing thieves being scum bags..
Apple is just legalising thieves. There is no money to make as an artist from streaming. It's purchases that pay the bills.
I have personally sold well over a million songs globally yet I personally own no where near 100,000 thousand songs from other artists and I buy everything I like. i know there will be people who own more music but 100,000 all legal?
Even if my vinyl were all albums which I think would be impossible it would still not be 100,000 tracks
and as for you ...to buy 25 thousand albums at £10.00 that would make you as rich as me lol and I can afford to spend £250,000 thousand pounds on 25 thousand albums especially as i would never get to play them all?.
Wake up and get real I had a conversation with Apple about this 15 years ago about thieves and digital content
They explain to me that music theft was only about 1% but that was before they started legitimising the thieves which is what this match system 100,000 increase is all about.
People with this much music have not bought it and streaming pays nothing to artists but legalises the thief but a thief they stay. Its just making thieving more lightly, pushing people to this laundering of stolen music into perceived legal music.
Yes I have it figured out... my life is music.
Do your homework before arguing with me.
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Is 100,000 a lot? Yeah. But four tracks per 12" LP? Unless we're talking about Beethoven's 9th, there will be more than four tracks (typically, there were two four-movement string quartets on an LP). Even Alice's Restaurant exceeded four tracks (one on side A, six on the B side). If it's pop music, 5-6 tracks per side, 12 overall. CDs bumped that up to 14-16 tracks. I had one friend who died (at age 40) with more than 10,000 CDs - all purchased (the collection was donated to a college radio station). Who knows what he'd have now, had he reached age 65? Do the math. I'd consider him the exception, rather than the rule, but nonetheless....
Yeah, there are plenty of people ripping off music and musicians, but there's also a fair number of music lovers out there who do not deserve to be painted with that brush.
Yeah, there are plenty of people ripping off music and musicians, but there's also a fair number of music lovers out there who do not deserve to be painted with that brush.
My collection is dance music 12" singles, hence the 4 track max per side, but to your point lets think about this .
If someone has really got that type of purchased collection (*not*) in CD's
30 to 1000,000 tracks? Are they ever going to fully leave them to go MP3 digital ?
To have collected that many albums would mean you would have to be old school and in some geek compulsion to collect in the format of your choice (CD or Vinyl) er go your collection is not going to ever be resolved into mp3 files in the iCloud.
The whole point of any collection of that amount is in it being that collection.
People don't buy 100,000 songs as downloads they rip the music from others or torrents this mean they are stolen and mixed I'm sure with some they might have actually purchased legally but no one with a pure collectors itch, is going to let go of a real collection of purchased CD's or Vinyl paid with that sort of money to go iTunes mp3.
30 thousand or 100,000 its stupid to defend these numbers as purchased. I know collectors that actually pay for the music 30,000 is a number only defended by ignorant thief's who hide behind their computer and most lightly could never earn the money needed to fund those purchases.
Vinyl collectors? they love the cover the smell everything. They will rip them but they won't have 100,000 songs and they will want wavs so iTunes is no good as the MP3 format is a degradation of the master.
£12.00 each lp CD lets say 5,000 CD (50,000 songs) £60,000.00 pound spent in music CD or vinyl .. I don't think so really? as for twice that well look who's complaining in the thread and you will see a thief of music.
The reality hurts only the thieves being outed when they complain about their vast stolen collection of music that they want Apple to legitimise for them.
If someone has really got that type of purchased collection (*not*) in CD's
30 to 1000,000 tracks? Are they ever going to fully leave them to go MP3 digital ?
To have collected that many albums would mean you would have to be old school and in some geek compulsion to collect in the format of your choice (CD or Vinyl) er go your collection is not going to ever be resolved into mp3 files in the iCloud.
The whole point of any collection of that amount is in it being that collection.
People don't buy 100,000 songs as downloads they rip the music from others or torrents this mean they are stolen and mixed I'm sure with some they might have actually purchased legally but no one with a pure collectors itch, is going to let go of a real collection of purchased CD's or Vinyl paid with that sort of money to go iTunes mp3.
30 thousand or 100,000 its stupid to defend these numbers as purchased. I know collectors that actually pay for the music 30,000 is a number only defended by ignorant thief's who hide behind their computer and most lightly could never earn the money needed to fund those purchases.
Vinyl collectors? they love the cover the smell everything. They will rip them but they won't have 100,000 songs and they will want wavs so iTunes is no good as the MP3 format is a degradation of the master.
£12.00 each lp CD lets say 5,000 CD (50,000 songs) £60,000.00 pound spent in music CD or vinyl .. I don't think so really? as for twice that well look who's complaining in the thread and you will see a thief of music.
The reality hurts only the thieves being outed when they complain about their vast stolen collection of music that they want Apple to legitimise for them.
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You just called the people of Canada "thieves". Downloading music is legal there, so I'm sure many of them have more than 100,000 songs (maybe even a few have the 100,000,000 you mentioned).
Being an Ugly American is so ugly.
Does this discussion always have to descend to the "if you own more songs than me you're a thief" level... I have 31 thousand songs in my library. Give me my sentence.
Mark, as a dance music lover you probably never committed a crime by purchasing a promo disc clearly marked "not for resale" right?
Mark, as a dance music lover you probably never committed a crime by purchasing a promo disc clearly marked "not for resale" right?
The attached photo shows about one-third of my CD collection. You're right, I'm not giving up that physical collection. But I also want to be able to play from that collection when I'm on holiday, or travelling. So I have easily over 100,000 legal tracks. They're not all ripped, but I'm at 54,000 tracks of which about 7,000 are purchased from iTunes.
You're right, I am unusual. But I'm not a thief. (And I don't sell on my CDs once I've ripped them - they are staying put).
Is that OK with you?
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I'm jealous of that display @dallardice! My CDs are stacked in drawers and on shelves, in two rows or on top of each other, because I play music from iTunes 
In the last months I've been buying CDs, never playing them because Spotify, but I still want to have a thing to touch, pour through the booklet, obsess over lyrics. I guess it's a bit stupid money-wise to buy CDs and listen to Spotify, but I don't care. As of 2016, to me, Spotify is convenience (and additional cents for artists/labels), iTunes is filling the gaps, and CDs and vinyls are artwork.
In the last months I've been buying CDs, never playing them because Spotify, but I still want to have a thing to touch, pour through the booklet, obsess over lyrics. I guess it's a bit stupid money-wise to buy CDs and listen to Spotify, but I don't care. As of 2016, to me, Spotify is convenience (and additional cents for artists/labels), iTunes is filling the gaps, and CDs and vinyls are artwork.
Do you worry about disc rot ruining your collection over time? I know that professionally burned CDs & DVDs are supposed to be reliable, but there was that mess of Warner Bros. DVDs that went bad a few years ago.
I used to keep my company's backups on CD, but after 15 years of doing that, I found that about 20% had lost data.