Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Date: 21 Mar 2015 13:40:18 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <2015032022100721834-tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> X-Trace: individual.net YsS1BnF6iM6u+ydmOwjDtQGYKuB17Nb0GSmskBl0dsJA8w/Okm Cancel-Lock: sha1:dCzuN56s9lYQxgvv+QUiH8JlUt8= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:28270 On 2015-03-21, Jolly Roger wrote: > On 2015-03-21, Jolly Roger wrote: >> >> iTunes Match is really cool for this sort of thing, because it looks at >> all of the MP3/AAC/etc files you already own and then matches them with >> equivalents in the iTunes Store (in the cloud), which makes all of them >> instantly available on all computers and devices using iTunes Match. > > To expand on this: > > Once a song from the iTunes library on your computer has been matched by > iTunes Match, the song is available to you in the cloud. If you have > that song copied to any other computers or devices, you can delete the > song from those devices to save space, but can still play the song on > those devices from the cloud without them taking up space. For instance, > after I matched the iTunes library of music on my Mac Pro with iTunes > Match, I was able to delete tens of gigabytes of music from my iPhone > and turn on iTunes Match in Settings. After doing that, I have *much* > more free space available on my iPhone for other things; but I still > have access to all of that music as long as I have network connectivity. > When I play one of my songs on my iPhone, it just streams it from the > cloud to the device. If I want to store some music on the phone, I can > still do that as well. All in all, it's very handy. Yet another benefit: Apple doesn't care much about where the songs in your library came from originally. If you have songs that you downloaded from some pirate site, for instance, Apple will happily match those as well when you use iTunes Match. Further, if you delete those songs from your library, and then download them from the cloud, what you download is Apple's high-quality version of the songs. This means you can effectively replace your pirated music with pristine legitimate copies from Apple. ; ) -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR