Itunes Match

[Doughnuts01]

Who uses this? It sounds like a pretty good idea...I don't need to upload all my music to my iphone and I should be able to access all of it..


Why shouldn't I use it?

[Flounder]

Why shouldn't I use it?

Well judging by the responses no one uses it.

Main reason I don't is none of my music is from iTunes. I ripped about 600 CDs that I own and there is no way in hell I am paying apple money every year for the privilege of listening to my own music.

I do pay for MOG every month which gives me access to a lot of music. I get to listen to most new releases as they come out. At least I get access to music I don't own for my payment.

[vinzclortho]

I have it.

$25/year to never use CDs again? I'll take that. I added about 500 cd's to my library and now they can sit in the basement in a box but I can still enjoy them.

I figure you end up choosing a solution to listen to all the music you own/buy. Some people will go with other methods, Match just made the most sense to me. Plus my new receiver allows me to wirelessly stream from my laptop or iphone. It's pretty f'n cool to sit on the patio and control the music from my phone.

anyways, I use Match, I think it's a great solution for me. Flounder doesn't use iTunes so he's got another solution that works for him.

Hate CD's.

[Flounder]

Flounder doesn't use iTunes so he's got another solution that works for him.

Hate CD's.

Yeah what I have works for me. Funny that I bitch about $25 a year to apple and I pay $120 to MOG and $36 to Pandora. With 2 iPhones and IPads in the house I have a pretty contentious relationship with iTunes. I am kind of pushing the limits with it, all my CDS are ripped to a NAS box and I have been slowly reripping using lossless audio which creates a huge file size. I don't think iTunes likes having to go out on the network so much and all our computers are windows which compounds things. ITunes seems to crash or lock up often and I try not to use it that often.

I stream through the house and yard using a Sonos system pulling music from the NAS. Since I got MOG I find that I usually go there for music. It has a 320 bitrate for streaming which is great, tunes sound awesome. Everything controlled from an iPhone or iPad.

I think everyone can agree that CDs are a pain in the ass. Haven't used one for years. If you have a large amount of iTunes tracks and want access to your ripped CDs then I would think iTunes match is a good solution. You will get higher quality files than what was originally purchased or ripped. $25 a year is really not a bad price.

[vinzclortho]

yep...a little less than 7 cents a day. Not a bad price really! and if you have an iphone etc... you already have space in "the cloud"

of course one thing that sucks and not sure if it's a spoof that Bruce Willis is taking apple to court, but I am looking into having something in my will about passing my digital music, movies, books...etc...collection down to my heirs. I figure I'll only buy more digital media in the future and I should be able to pass it down to my kids. Hell right now I have about $8k in digital music files. I guess I drank the Kool-Aid Itunes-wise...but i guess I can just give my kid my itunes login/password and she can keep using all that digital media. At least I hope so!

[Doughnuts01]

So, let me get this straight...

I pay the fee, all my music that is in Itunes right now gets "uploaded" and I can play anything I want from my library on my phone without having it physically on my phone?

[grskier]

So, let me get this straight...

I pay the fee, all my music that is in Itunes right now gets "uploaded" and I can play anything I want from my library on my phone without having it physically on my phone?

It doesn't have to live on every device is all.. which mad it attractive to me, as with 2 iPhones, a macbook, 5 external harddrives, an ipad, etc... it'd be nice to have everything be downloadable in a few seconds to whatever device...

That said, I was surprised with what did, and did not get recognized..... I have some ripped from CDs, some ripped from the internet, some from emusic.com, and others from itunes....

[vinzclortho]

yeah, you'd have to upload it from the cloud so you can only hold as many songs as your device's memory will allow...BUT you have access to all of them so with some uploading/downloading, playing with itunes...you have access to everything. I guess that is unless you have a big storage medium.

yeah I found the same thing with burned cds...some worked and some didn't. one bummer, is that cds that had scratches make files that have scratches...which is lame. I'd rather just have itunes tell me that the cd is scratched and it's not going to upload it

[vinzclortho]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFAAAAAAAAAAAAHK.

I upgraded my phone to the new o/s and now there is no icon to play tunes through my receiver. sounds like it's time for a visit to the apple store. hopefully it's not something like "oh you need to upgrade the firmware on your receiver." cuz I'm sure that's a fuckin picnic in it's self.

[grskier]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF FFAAAAAAAAAAAAHK.

I upgraded my phone to the new o/s and now there is no icon to play tunes through my receiver. sounds like it's time for a visit to the apple store. hopefully it's not something like "oh you need to upgrade the firmware on your receiver." cuz I'm sure that's a fuckin picnic in it's self.

any update on this?

[vinzclortho]

no, I need to go to the apple store...because the phone gives me the option to play the sound from videos through the stereo, but not songs via itunes. I can still plug the phone into the stereo but the wireless play is currently a bust. fucking annoying too. first world problem to be sure, but come on!!