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Do you plan to subscribe to iTunes Match?

  • Yep! I think it's gonna be great!

    Votes: 11 29.7%
  • Maybe. It's a little pricey but I'll probably do it.

    Votes: 9 24.3%
  • No point; all of my songs are from iTunes anyway.

    Votes: 6 16.2%
  • No. I'm angry that Apple doesn't support synchronizing songs I bought on tape in 1986.

    Votes: 11 29.7%

  • Total voters
    37
  • Poll closed .
You really should look at Google. Google chances are will be free for a VERY VERY long time and will still be a hell of a lot cheaper than Apple.

Also would like to point out most people library is under 5 gigs.
Respectfully, that's a whole lot of speculation you just did there, both in terms of Google's future pricing plans and the average library size. :eek:

FWIW, here's a random poll from three years ago where it looks like ~80% of folks had 5GB or more (assuming 3MB/song):
http://hints.macworld.com/polls/index.php?pid=itunesmusiccount

That and Apples is not going to be really cross platform. It has to run on iTunes or iOS device.
Perfect. All of my Macs and PCs can run iTunes, and all of my portable devices run iOS!
 
Respectfully, that's a whole lot of speculation you just did there, both in terms of Google's future pricing plans and the average library size. :eek:

FWIW, here's a random poll from three years ago where it looks like ~80% of folks had 5GB or more (assuming 3MB/song):
http://hints.macworld.com/polls/index.php?pid=itunesmusiccount


Perfect. All of my Macs and PCs can run iTunes, and all of my portable devices run iOS!

The problem with that poll I find is it is from a tech site which is going to shift things much higher in amount. I have found when you break 5 gigs chances are good chance fair bit is umm less than legal.

Well you can not install iTunes everywhere. A lot of work computers will not allow it for example but if it is a browser based then it is a non issue.
 
I won't be surprised if we get a fair few "iTunes Match has deleted all of my music" type posts when it first comes on-line. :)

"Mobile Me Syndrome" AKA "Gmail Syndrome" -- Very good point! I suppose that's what Time Machine is good for though.
 
The problem with that poll I find is it is from a tech site which is going to shift things much higher in amount.
That's OK, the problem I found with your 5GB statement was that it sounded like you totally made it up. :)

I have found when you break 5 gigs chances are good chance fair bit is umm less than legal.
Which is probably why sources have been saying that 70% of the $24.99 will be going to the labels and publishers. If true, when's the last time you've heard of Apple get into a venture where they only get 30% of revenues?

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Well you can not install iTunes everywhere. A lot of work computers will not allow it for example but if it is a browser based then it is a non issue.
I don't agree that it's guaranteed to be a non-issue. It's been my experience that companies savvy enough to create policies that prevent users from installing unwanted software on work PCs also are savvy enough to have firewall policies blocking many personal things, esp. bandwidth intensive things. Gmail, for example. Totally browser-based. And blocked (along other personal email providers) at many businesses.
 
That's OK, the problem I found with your 5GB statement was that it sounded like you totally made it up. :)
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Not made up more observations I have made by looking at peoples library and talking with non techno geek friends. Library size drops like a rock once you walk away from this crowd to much more smaller size so 5 gigs starts seeming a lot more in the normal range.
I know my libary is near 35 gigs and all of it has been uploaded to the Google Music for free and knowing Google I would be shocked if they start charging in the next 5 years.
 
My music library alone is 35GB. All legal. Plus another couple hundred gigs of movies and TV shows. Also all legit.

Hey, as a parent, I have to be able to stream SpongeBob Squarepants or Star Wars to my phone at any time to placate the beast-child when we're out and about!
 
At this stage my biggest concern would be that iTunes could 'match' incorrectly.
I am a DJ and most of the music in my iTunes library is dance music, this means full length club mixes and remixes etc...
I can see a nightmare scenario in which iTunes finds a 'match', then replaces my full length original with a short 'radio edit' - just because the song data matches and they sound alike!


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At this stage my biggest concern would be that iTunes could 'match' incorrectly.
I am a DJ and most of the music in my iTunes library is dance music, this means full length club mixes and remixes etc...
I can see a nightmare scenario in which iTunes finds a 'match', then replaces my full length original with a short 'radio edit' - just because the song data matches and they sound alike!


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Not likely. I doubt Apple is going to base their replacement of your library without a damn near 100% bit-by-bit match. Apple is plenty aware that there are multiple mixes, versions, covers, etc of music. The scan to determine a match is going to look at a lot more than just the metadata.
 
At this stage my biggest concern would be that iTunes could 'match' incorrectly.
I am a DJ and most of the music in my iTunes library is dance music, this means full length club mixes and remixes etc...
I can see a nightmare scenario in which iTunes finds a 'match', then replaces my full length original with a short 'radio edit' - just because the song data matches and they sound alike!

On the bright side, if the service just looks at metadata you can rename a bunch of songs from one album to match the latest Bjork album (hey, I don't judge your music taste) and wham! you have the new one on your other devices. That said, the record labels have thought of this scenario so I think the service will probably utilize something like Midomi to verify the content of the files it's matching.
 
Heres the text from the website:

"Here’s how it works: iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to your iCloud library for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 18 million songs in the iTunes Store, most of your music is probably already in iCloud. All you have to upload is what iTunes can’t match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. And all the music iTunes matches plays back at 256-Kbps iTunes Plus quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality"

Yes, but all you have to do, really, is change one of the minor dumb things you never use in the ID3 tags, and iTunes won't be able to match it.. Then you upload to high heaven.

iTunes is not that smart when it comes to matching music; at least, it never has been in my case.
 
iTunes is a very nice service. matched my whole library. The problem and the most annoying encounter i had is when you used up 2 iTunes account in your device. It will have a 90 day period to be able to use itunes match in that device
 
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