Stop talking about "streaming". That's an archaic concept compared to the way iTunes Match works. When you use Match on your iOS device, you ARE streaming as you know it, but you're doing more than that. It's a convenience and a feature, not some flaw like you ancient streaming hounds believe.
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Apple Turns on iTunes Match for Apple TV with New 'Music' Section
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Stop talking about "streaming". That's an archaic concept compared to the way iTunes Match works. When you use Match on your iOS device, you ARE streaming as you know it, but you're doing more than that. It's a convenience and a feature, not some flaw like you ancient streaming hounds believe.
Your "understanding" is correct, but your decision making is horrible.
Hard drives are cheap as dirt. Hundreds of gigabytes of music is NOT. Why on earth would you delete your music to rely on the cloud? If you want to archive your music after iCloud has gotten it all, on say an additional HDD, and free up space on your active drive....then yes that is a reasonable decision.
But deleting your music because you think iCloud is that reliable, and because youre too cheap to buy drive to store it on, is ludicrous.
Why is this supposed to mean?
You're complaining there is no "Purchased" tab under music that lets you access your purchase history in iTunes, like the TV show tab has? So what, just subscribe to Match, set it up, and you'll never to care about that again.
And what does pc/iDevice have to do with it? is there even one single customer of the AppleTV that doesn't already have at least one pc or iDevice?
You wouldn't. But they already have a record of the songs that you purchased through iTunes. You should at least be able to access those from your
TV.You wouldn't. But they already have a record of the songs that you purchased through iTunes. You should at least be able to access those from your
Ah, I get it. But if everything is purchased from iTunes (which I guess would be the case if you had iOS devices but never synced them to a computer) you wouldn't need match. It sounds like they just need to add support for listing purchased songs on the aTV if they don't have it already.
Accessed to music purchased through iTunes store is already available and has no extra charge, Match will only be needed for songs you got elsewhere.
You could conceivably delete all your content but the danger in that is that there is a clause in iTunes Match that says that Apple will only allow you to re-download your music as long as it is still available in iTunes. If the distributer delists it, you're screwed.
A better decision would be to relocate your iTunes library to an external hard drive, disconnect it and store it in a safe place as insurance. Every now and then, update your physical library on the external as you buy new music.