We all know after the release of Apple Music, Apple has iCloud Music Library that is supposed to sync all your library music (not files) across all supported devices that is signed in with one Apple ID. However, it was plagued with replaced versions, wrong metadata, wrong artworks, and more often than not messed up user curated iTunes library, destroying metadata and worse, music file in the process.
For Google Photos, it has two tiers. The free tier compresses all your uploaded photo into low quality photos capped at 16MP, but provide “unlimited” storage. The “paid” tier uploads original images and download original images, but counts against Google Drive storage.
So, how about this idea? User can choose to enable current iCloud Music Library and use it the way we are using right now, or choose to enable a new iCloud Music Library that does not match Apple Music library, but instead upload all user’s iTunes library music files as-is, essentially putting a cloud storage style iTunes library with the support of streaming from multiple devices. This new library counts against iCloud storage but won’t match random version from Apple Music with user uploaded version, or mess up with metadata, or essentially encrypt entire iTunes library.
For Google Photos, it has two tiers. The free tier compresses all your uploaded photo into low quality photos capped at 16MP, but provide “unlimited” storage. The “paid” tier uploads original images and download original images, but counts against Google Drive storage.
So, how about this idea? User can choose to enable current iCloud Music Library and use it the way we are using right now, or choose to enable a new iCloud Music Library that does not match Apple Music library, but instead upload all user’s iTunes library music files as-is, essentially putting a cloud storage style iTunes library with the support of streaming from multiple devices. This new library counts against iCloud storage but won’t match random version from Apple Music with user uploaded version, or mess up with metadata, or essentially encrypt entire iTunes library.