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'iTunes Match' Allows Both Streaming and Downloading of Music
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i just need itunes to raise the song total to about 30k songs and include tv show uploads, and we're in business
i wonder
1. if this is a wi-fi only feature
2. how will it adapt to recognizing user created song tags
i wonder
1. if this is a wi-fi only feature
2. how will it adapt to recognizing user created song tags
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It's a good question and we know the answer. You don't have to pay anyone.
Others like me will have to pay for the convinience of this service. I can't wait to get rid of this enormous iTunes library on my MBP. I'm more and more likely to jump on the MBA ship. Don't have to worry about space anymore.
The future is looking very promising.
And I was actually wrong as well. It is 30c per song. Something like $3 an album. Which if you have a lot of albums, adds up.
Tuck
That's like comparing apples and oranges. With Spotify, you're paying to have unlimited access to their entire streaming library. With iTunes Match, you have to pay for the music you want to listen to on a per song or per album basis. iTunes Match only gives you the ability to sync your music between devices, have unlimited access to previous purchases, and get online access to songs you already owned/illegally downloaded.
They're very different "Cloud" solutions.
Tuck
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Probably only if you jailbreak.
Tuck
Ok, a very realistic scenario (even though we are not supposed to mention it) but I've lived with a few teenagers and their music collections.
They go to some torrent site and download the latest album they want, then they have the MP3 files, unknown bit rate, onto their Mac or PC.
They have this new service from Apple. Are we still saying the same thing we did months ago, that Apple will identify these illegal downloaded tracks and replace them for free with official iTunes tracks that you can then download/stream in the future in the exact same was as if they bought them from iTunes in the 1st place?
They go to some torrent site and download the latest album they want, then they have the MP3 files, unknown bit rate, onto their Mac or PC.
They have this new service from Apple. Are we still saying the same thing we did months ago, that Apple will identify these illegal downloaded tracks and replace them for free with official iTunes tracks that you can then download/stream in the future in the exact same was as if they bought them from iTunes in the 1st place?
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What exactly does this service offer that I can't already do with an app like Audio Tap? I paid $1.99 and I stream everything from my computer to my iPhone over 3G or wifi. I can even create playlists. It works perfectly.
I'm just not getting that this service will do anything I haven't already been doing for ages, that is, avoid ever needing to sync music to my phone and just streaming all 20,000 or so songs from my computer.
Am I missing something here?
What exactly does this service offer that I can't already do with an app like Audio Tap? I paid $1.99 and I stream everything from my computer to my iPhone over 3G or wifi. I can even create playlists. It works perfectly.
I'm just not getting that this service will do anything I haven't already been doing for ages, that is, avoid ever needing to sync music to my phone and just streaming all 20,000 or so songs from my computer.
Am I missing something here?
Well, something has to be in place for sure. I always wondered how theyre gonna stop people from white-washing 25000 pirated records too. I'd gladly pay 25 usd to do that, im not so sure that the record companies would be very happy about it though.
I have a truly unlimited 3G data plan with "3" in the UK and get great speeds wherever I am. 
But I'm in the UK so who knows when I'll be able to make use of it.
But I'm in the UK so who knows when I'll be able to make use of it.
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1. Hope this comes to Australia and not just to the US.
2. All my music is Apple Lossless, so hopefully they will allow me to upload these.
3. Hope they don't get rid of the iPod classic, as again, I need my music in Apple Lossless.
2. All my music is Apple Lossless, so hopefully they will allow me to upload these.
3. Hope they don't get rid of the iPod classic, as again, I need my music in Apple Lossless.
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I'm curious what happens if the user ripped the track at a higher bitrate. I'm happy for the cloud version to be 256kbps (for streaming) as long as if it ever syncs to a machine that has my higher quality version it doesn't try and replace the file with the lower quality one.
It'd be nice for users with 128bps tracks to be upgraded, but not if it then downgrades other ones.
edit: As noted it'll be interesting to see not only what happens to the iPod classic but what the next nano may look like also.
This service is only available on the Mac platform at the moment so forget about PC's for now.
Also the music industry agreed to try this out with Apple knowing people were gonna put lets say..nefarious collected music onto their computer. This is why it is only available in the United States for now. It being tested on a platform that only hold a market share of about 6-10%.
In short iTunes match will match any music you have on your mac provided it is in the format that Match allows.
this has been discussed, and yes... if possible someone is surely working on that. probably easier said than done though, and perhaps not very worth-while if you can just download (read: pirate) said song and white-wash it.
That will happen, yes. But look at it this way. Previously the industry was making $0 from these users. Now they make $25. It's not a lot, but it's more than they otherwise would have received.
...if you could extract it from your iWorld, yes. If not, we're taking a step back here.
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You dont know the music industry operates, that much is clear
(and no, theyre not making 25 by apple charging 25.)
As mentioned before, you don't have to leave your computer on to stream. The annual power savings on your utility bill should more than pay the annual $25 iTunes Match fee.
Plus it syncs with all of your devices, and (presumably) your computer at work also.
Honest question, does Audio Tap or any of the other comparable services do that?
Feel free to enlighten me then. They must have come to a conclusion similar to what I stated otherwise they wouldn't have gone through with the deal. The record companies aren't daft enough to have not worked out that users would attempt to use illegitimate copies to gain ones from Apple.You dont know the music industry operates, that much is clear
(and no, theyre not making 25 by apple charging 25.)
When I said "They make $25" that was inclusive of Apple, they also sell music after all and thus are part of the industry and are also affected by piracy.
how in the world do you have 30k songs that aren't available in iTunes?!!
I think you misunderstand how this works