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Re: Best way to make a digital music collection?

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On 2015-03-21, Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> What's the best way to make a digital music collection?

Purchase CDs and encode them digitally by importing them into iTunes, or
purchase songs / albums directly from the iTunes Store, and enjoy. : )

> I want to start buying songs from a 'streaming' service and be able to 
> categorize the songs into different libraries and play them on my Mac 
> and in the next room through my Airport Express and speakers there 
> (which I use to play songs from Net radio stations.

You can't obtain songs to keep from streaming services. You can think of
a streaming service as a "pay to listen" service where you basically rent
your music rather than purchase it to own it.

> I also want to be able to shuffle the songs.

Streaming services do basically shuffle in that rather than you picking
the play order, the service plays various songs in whatever order the
service chooses. If you want more control than that, then you want to
own your music instead. So you want to purchase to own from Apple's
iTunes library rather than stream your music.

> And is it a good idea to store the collections in a 'cloud' so that it 
> wouldn't take valuable space on my Mac and back-up drives?

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.
Another benefit of iTunes Match is that it removes all advertising from
iTunes Radio, Apple's free music streaming service (similar to Pandora).

> And what's the best 'streaming' music service?  Spotify?

Maybe. I'm happy with iTunes Radio though. I switched from Pandora to
iTunes Radio a while back and am enjoying it. Since I use iTunes Match,
there are no ads. 

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JR

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Best way to make a digital music collection? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-03-20 22:10 -0700
  Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? christian150205@ghanart.org (Christian) - 2015-03-21 06:55 +0100
  Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 13:14 +0000
    Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 13:32 +0000
      Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 13:40 +0000
        Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-21 13:55 -0400
          Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-03-21 11:33 -0700
            Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-21 17:11 -0400
          Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 12:22 +0000
            Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-22 09:00 -0400
              Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-03-22 13:41 -0700
                Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-22 17:27 -0400
                Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 23:42 +0000
                Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-22 21:15 -0400
                Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-23 01:41 +0000
                Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-23 18:19 +0000
            Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-03-22 20:23 -0600
              Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-23 02:28 +0000
    Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Tom Evans <tomevans9890@yahoo.ca> - 2015-03-22 12:45 -0700
      Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-22 15:57 -0400
      Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-22 21:51 +0000
      Re: Best way to make a digital music collection? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 23:40 +0000

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