Also would like to point out most people library is under 5 gigs.
Really? I doubt that. I would say that most people have over 5GB of music. I have 64GB of music and I'm hardly a music fanatic.
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.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.
Perfect. All of my Macs and PCs can run iTunes, and all of my portable devices run iOS!That and Apples is not going to be really cross platform. It has to run on iTunes or iOS device.
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.
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!
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.![]()
That's OK, the problem I found with your 5GB statement was that it sounded like you totally made it up.The problem with that poll I find is it is from a tech site which is going to shift things much higher in amount.
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?I have found when you break 5 gigs chances are good chance fair bit is umm less than legal.
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.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.
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 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!
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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!
Heres the text from the website:
"Heres 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 cant 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"