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Apple Teases 'Exciting' iTunes Announcement Tomorrow

My question is regarding how the streaming cloud would work.

Is it for your entire library or just iTunes songs. If it just iTunes songs then all you are uploading to a cloud is library and playlist data which your device logs into. They already have all the music and only need to store a single instance of it.

If it the entire library which consists of many people's ripped CDs, then are you uploading your library to their servers, which doesn't seem very cost or other wise effective/efficient. I personally have 40 GB of music alone in my library, before getting into movie, TV show, and any other media.

Or if it is the entire library but somehow just connects back to your home machine, then you must have it and iTunes running, which of course is not convenient or possible for those on the road or who primarily use notebooks.

On another note

I've passed on iLife '11 for now at least. It is rather disappointed to see that Apple didn't bring Home Sharing to iPhoto like the did to iTunes. This last weekend I finally got around to wiping my MacBook and installing 10.6 on it to match my iMac. I used migration assistant for the first time, which sadly didn't have enough control over what did or did not get copied for my liking and I didn't have it copy all my applications and data over for space limitations but decided instead to manual install the applications I would want on it. I used iTunes home sharing to copy over my iTunes music library but left movies and TV shows off. It would have been nice to bring playlists too, but oh well. Likewise I would have liked to bring my iPhoto library over and be able to use a Home Sharing feature down the road to keep new photos synced over.
 
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weird mixup of cities' names translations on the german site...
german - spanish - french - german... :confused::confused:

it appears that the event will start at 16:00 GMT+1... sigh..
 
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Release of iOS 4.2 to activate AirPlay, and then iTunes to iDevice streaming?

I'd love Wireless iTunes syncing and sone sort of Cloud Storage though.
 
It will be something dumb like ravening integration for ping. If it was big like streaming subscription then there would be an event.

90 second previews is another dumb thing that this could be.
 
If iTunes goes cloud based, I hope I could still download songs for when I don't have internet access. Sure, I have plenty of music I ripped from CDs and whatever, but what if I really wanted to hear a song, but it's only on the cloud and I don't have internet access?
 
Is Cloud Natural Evolution or Trojan Horse?

The whole "cloud" concept does not appeal to me. I like to have control over my apps and entertainment. If the internet is down I still want to be able to do everything I usually do. I see a lot of downside to "cloud".

You can see where this is going. The music/film industries would love cloud/streaming to be the ONLY way to get content. That would provide them with single point control of their content and increase profits (at least that is the perception on their part). In that "perfect world" CDs/DVDs and all other physical entertainment media would be gone and nobody would "own" anything. They would just "rent".....our computers would become less powerful and would evolve towards just being content players with buffers just large enough to "rent" however big the target files are. The new Apple TV is the perfect example of this trend.

no thanx
 
Hopefully it's only available to us loyal MobileMe subscribers at first.

Then the rest of you can borrow it.
 
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It's definitely a global event, it says the same on the Norwegian Apple Store.
 
I've worked out what is bigger than iOS 4.2 and 90 seconds preview. they're announcing iOS 4.2.1 to fix the wifi and 100 seconds preview because people though it seems much longer than 90 seconds :p

All jokes aside I thought the apple site was down because there was no MacBook Air like fade in thing. I'm going to miss that :(
 
jakebot said:
My Bet is Cloud based itunes.

but

It works like mobile me, so you can make sure all your computers have the same music if they are all signed into the same itunes account. I have my music at work and home and I constantly have to move music between them to keep them the same... this would fix that.

Itunes now included in mobile me... makes perfect sense.
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Agreed. I'm not interested in a cloud-based streaming service per se. Imagine how long it would take to throw new tunes on your iPad during the frantic hour before leaving for a trip?

A per-month streaming service solely for listening could be interesting.

But a cloud-based syncing service ala iDisk (but implemented with the simplicity and solidity of Dropbox) and say, 500GB capacity. I wouldn't forget that day.
 
With the clocks I think it is iOS4.2 with the DST bug fix... which can only be downloaded through iTunes... TA DA!!!!

/sarcasm
 
roland.g said:
My question is regarding how the streaming cloud would work.

Is it for your entire library or just iTunes songs. If it just iTunes songs then all you are uploading to a cloud is library and playlist data which your device logs into. They already have all the music and only need to store a single instance of it.

If it the entire library which consists of many people's ripped CDs, then are you uploading your library to their servers, which doesn't seem very cost or other wise effective/efficient. I personally have 40 GB of music alone in my library, before getting into movie, TV show, and any other media.

Or if it is the entire library but somehow just connects back to your home machine, then you must have it and iTunes running, which of course is not convenient or possible for those on the road or who primarily use notebooks.

On another note

I've passed on iLife '11 for now at least. It is rather disappointed to see that Apple didn't bring Home Sharing to iPhoto like the did to iTunes. This last weekend I finally got around to wiping my MacBook and installing 10.6 on it to match my iMac. I used migration assistant for the first time, which sadly didn't have enough control over what did or did not get copied for my liking and I didn't have it copy all my applications and data over for space limitations but decided instead to manual install the applications I would want on it. I used iTunes home sharing to copy over my iTunes music library but left movies and TV shows off. It would have been nice to bring playlists too, but oh well. Likewise I would have liked to bring my iPhoto library over and be able to use a Home Sharing feature down the road to keep new photos synced over.
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If its anything like spotify all the music iTunes hold will sit in the cloud. You pay them x amount a month and you search e.g Jimi Hendrix and up pops all his music and you stream the **** out of it.

Its a great idea if you listen to alot of music.
 
SeattleMoose said:
The whole "cloud" concept does not appeal to me. I like to have control over my apps and entertainment. If the internet is down I still want to be able to do everything I usually do. I see a lot of downside to "cloud".

You can see where this is going. The music/film industries would love cloud/streaming to be the ONLY way to get content. That would provide them with single point control of their content and increase profits (at least that is the perception on their part). In that "perfect world" CDs/DVDs and all other physical entertainment media would be gone and nobody would "own" anything. They would just "rent".....our computers would become less powerful and would evolve towards just being content players with buffers just large enough to "rent" however big the target files are. The new Apple TV is the perfect example of this trend.

no thanx
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I agree completely. Look at the way Disney markets their DVDs now-- "available for a limited time" then it goes back in the "vault" for 10 years! They would absolutely LOVE a streaming-only service where they could control when you have movies available (and charge you every time you play it). Artificially created scarcity is what we have to look forward to if everything goes to the cloud.
 
"Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget." "The funnest iPod ever." Is Apple in need of a middle school English teacher on staff or do they consider themselves superior to the English language? I'm guessing the latter.
 
If they call it "Cloud Nine" or "AirTunes", I'll be spending the day in Barf City. Won't you join me?
 
Apple is of great interest to me but their claim of a day we'll "...never forget" is almost too good to be true.
Interesting how this announcemnt was not rumored until now
Hope it is really good news instead of marketing hype
 
SeattleMoose said:
The whole "cloud" concept does not appeal to me. I like to have control over my apps and entertainment. If the internet is down I still want to be able to do everything I usually do. I see a lot of downside to "cloud".

You can see where this is going. The music/film industries would love cloud/streaming to be the ONLY way to get content. That would provide them with single point control of their content and increase profits (at least that is the perception on their part). In that "perfect world" CDs/DVDs and all other physical entertainment media would be gone and nobody would "own" anything. They would just "rent".....our computers would become less powerful and would evolve towards just being content players with buffers just large enough to "rent" however big the target files are. The new Apple TV is the perfect example of this trend.

no thanx
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You're thinking about the cloud in the wrong way. It's incredibly useful for large scale information that is too tedious to move around, or too large to maintain on multiple devices. And it's a great way to keep local data in sync between numerous devices.
 
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