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Re: Best way to make a digital music collection?

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On 2015-03-21, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2015-03-21, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> 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. ; )

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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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