If you've got a serious hi-fi system you'll not play from the cloud on that. All my music is ripped to AIFF and I stream that through a DAC direct from my iMac. iCloud will be my on-the-go source.
I agree but I am so tired of companies not making Hi-Res downloads/streams ,whatever, available. At least as an option with higher cost. BTW i also play my music through a DAC (Naim).
So presumably, it was unnecessary for me to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading my previous iTunes purchases over the past 2 years. Now, for 25 bucks a year, I can upload any 128 kbps iTunes store purchase, and if it's matched, re-download it at 256 kbps.
That is a fundamental problem, how do you lower the price (or up the quality) without infuriating all those who paid the higher price in past?
I saw the number 20,000 songs. Will there be a limit? I have 3 TB of music on a 4 TB drive. My next option is a drobo. At $25 a year this is great.
Now if I could get all by bootlegs it would be fantastic. Those count for about 2 TB of that music.
What difference would it make, in practical terms you couldn't possibly listen to all that music in your lifetime even if you listened to music a couple of hours each day since you're likely adding music all the time so you'd never catch up.
I am left wondering where this leaves "legit" music not purchased through iTunes. I have a large portion of my music library that I purchased through Amazon MP3. Would I have to pay the annual fee to have this music sync through iCloud?
This could turn into an interesting argument if that's the case. I can picture Apple saying that limiting the service to iTunes-purchased music is a reasonable anti-piracy measure, and Amazon and others contending that it's anticompetitive by "forcing" users to re-purchase legitimate music through iTunes.
The snyc everything you have purchased to all authorized devices (up to 10) without needing to sync from one device to another is pretty cool - buy a track on iTunes - and moments later it is available on your computer - iPhone and iPad - etc. Of course I have a lot more on my computer than will fit on the iPhone (unless Apple is planning to release an iPhone with a ton more on board memory - or an SD card slot).
The extra $24.99 comes in if you want to both upgrade your existing collection to higher quality and upload any tracks that you have not purchased from the iTunes store in the first place.
As might have been hinted at here I wonder what happens when you stop paying that annual fee? do you lose access to all those tracks? what about the original lower quality track you had to begin with?
$24.99 a year is pretty cheap compared to what I pay for MobileMe today - so if I get to keep using everything that is MobileMe today (improved, enhanced, etc) and get upgraded music etc for $24.99 a year instead of $100+ that is an improvement.
I suppose they will have some sort of prefs of settings for whether or when to sync tracks or albums.
Now if they could just figure out a way to let me shuffle by album on my iPhone that would be cool.
What is there to stop someone from renaming the same track 20,000 times with the names of all the music you would ever like to own... and getting all the real versions from Apple for a mere $24.99?
And off-site backup for your files. How much would it cost you to pay Mozy, Backblaze, Carbonite to backup your media files?
Yes, that's true. But I already have backups of backups and even more backups on DVDs, external discs (multiple), for anything that I've payed for or which I want to keep indefinitely. And the iTunes match service isn't going to backup the gigabytes of video, movies, documents, and photos that I already have, so my music is only a small fraction of what I need for day-to-day storage.
Actually, other than the new iTunes match service for $25 all this adds for music is wireless sync, not really that much different than attaching your iOS device over USB to iTunes, other than the fact that USB will be much faster.
USB will be much slower if your iPhone and computer aren't in the same building.
What is there to stop someone from renaming the same track 20,000 times with the names of all the music you would ever like to own... and getting all the real versions from Apple for a mere $24.99?
What is there to stop someone from renaming the same track 20,000 times with the names of all the music you would ever like to own... and getting all the real versions from Apple for a mere $24.99?
What is there to stop someone from renaming the same track 20,000 times with the names of all the music you would ever like to own... and getting all the real versions from Apple for a mere $24.99?
Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that LOL.
Perhaps you were being facetious, but this is probably driven by the song data, not the metadata.
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If you've got a serious hi-fi system you'll not play from the cloud on that. All my music is ripped to AIFF and I stream that through a DAC direct from my iMac. iCloud will be my on-the-go source.
I agree but I am so tired of companies not making Hi-Res downloads/streams ,whatever, available. At least as an option with higher cost. BTW i also play my music through a DAC (Naim).
Mine just renewed too. I am hoping for about 4 years free.
Apple Support Note here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597
So presumably, it was unnecessary for me to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading my previous iTunes purchases over the past 2 years. Now, for 25 bucks a year, I can upload any 128 kbps iTunes store purchase, and if it's matched, re-download it at 256 kbps.
That is a fundamental problem, how do you lower the price (or up the quality) without infuriating all those who paid the higher price in past?
Who said anything about streaming? You can't believe everything you read on rumor sites.
The title of this thread (at the moment... hopefully the moderators will fix it to avoid misleading readers) calls it a streaming service.
I saw the number 20,000 songs. Will there be a limit? I have 3 TB of music on a 4 TB drive. My next option is a drobo. At $25 a year this is great.
Now if I could get all by bootlegs it would be fantastic. Those count for about 2 TB of that music.
What difference would it make, in practical terms you couldn't possibly listen to all that music in your lifetime even if you listened to music a couple of hours each day since you're likely adding music all the time so you'd never catch up.
Looks good! Will this be free for those with almost a full year of MobileMe paid for?
Why would it be? This is a completely unrelated new service.
This could turn into an interesting argument if that's the case. I can picture Apple saying that limiting the service to iTunes-purchased music is a reasonable anti-piracy measure, and Amazon and others contending that it's anticompetitive by "forcing" users to re-purchase legitimate music through iTunes.
The extra $24.99 comes in if you want to both upgrade your existing collection to higher quality and upload any tracks that you have not purchased from the iTunes store in the first place.
As might have been hinted at here I wonder what happens when you stop paying that annual fee? do you lose access to all those tracks? what about the original lower quality track you had to begin with?
$24.99 a year is pretty cheap compared to what I pay for MobileMe today - so if I get to keep using everything that is MobileMe today (improved, enhanced, etc) and get upgraded music etc for $24.99 a year instead of $100+ that is an improvement.
I suppose they will have some sort of prefs of settings for whether or when to sync tracks or albums.
Now if they could just figure out a way to let me shuffle by album on my iPhone that would be cool.
Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that LOL.
And off-site backup for your files. How much would it cost you to pay Mozy, Backblaze, Carbonite to backup your media files?
Yes, that's true. But I already have backups of backups and even more backups on DVDs, external discs (multiple), for anything that I've payed for or which I want to keep indefinitely. And the iTunes match service isn't going to backup the gigabytes of video, movies, documents, and photos that I already have, so my music is only a small fraction of what I need for day-to-day storage.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
Ha - they even put a Google/Amazon comparison!
I saw the number 20,000 songs. Will there be a limit? I have 3 TB of music on a 4 TB drive. My next option is a drobo. At $25 a year this is great.
Now if I could get all by bootlegs it would be fantastic. Those count for about 2 TB of that music.
Imagine the trove of data they will get from these matchers. I have been resisting the whole genius thing because I'd rather not disclose all of this.
I take it metadata will not be required for identifying the song, probably from the tune itself.
BTW you'll love your DROBO
Actually, other than the new iTunes match service for $25 all this adds for music is wireless sync, not really that much different than attaching your iOS device over USB to iTunes, other than the fact that USB will be much faster.
USB will be much slower if your iPhone and computer aren't in the same building.
Unmatched content will be uploaded; upload time varies depending on amounts uploaded.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
Interesting
isn't this also a way to make all the pirated music people have downloaded, become legit?
say i've downloaded a pirated CD
once i do itunes match, this ripped music becomes legit and i can access it on any device
The $150 million they gave to labels for licenses will be more than recouped by signing up 6 milling iMatchers. And Apple keeps the data on you!
This chart is a little shady...
What is there to stop someone from renaming the same track 20,000 times with the names of all the music you would ever like to own... and getting all the real versions from Apple for a mere $24.99?
Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that LOL.
What is there to stop someone from renaming the same track 20,000 times with the names of all the music you would ever like to own... and getting all the real versions from Apple for a mere $24.99?
Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that LOL.
Hmm... very interesting...
What is there to stop someone from renaming the same track 20,000 times with the names of all the music you would ever like to own... and getting all the real versions from Apple for a mere $24.99?
Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that LOL.
Perhaps you were being facetious, but this is probably driven by the song data, not the metadata.