iTunes in the Cloud

[Drew]

So this thread isn't for everybody. But personally, I keep my music on iTunes. I then put my music on my iPod, and when I want to switch what's on there I sync it manually. Which is often. I also have about 60,000 songs on my computer, so I can only ever have a fraction of it available if I'm not at my computer.

It's been coming for weeks, and I've been monitoring it because it's potentially huge for me, and they just announced it - iTunes will be in the cloud. You can download the music you've purchased from the iTunes store on any device for free, but even better than that, for $25 a year, you can do iTunes Match and have all of the music on your computer (even stuff you didn't buy from iTunes store, which for me is most of it) available to you on any device, anywhere.

So with my 32GB iPhone I can now access all 300GB of my music anytime. This...is really cool.

www.apple.com/icloud/features/

[Drew]

From what I understand it doesn't upload (like amazon or google music), it just scans. It says 20,000 songs will take just minutes.

[Jefferin Jeffotash]

Your right, i posted before i read the link....Sounds pretty cool actually....

If your looking for an alternative, audiogalaxy works pretty good as a free alternative...

[Drew]

Hmm I had heard of Audiogalaxy but I'm always wary of third party applications like that - it works pretty well for you? Do you use it on your phone?

[chaco]

Jun 6, 2011 11:51:22 GMT -8 Drew said:

I also have about 60,000 songs on my computer

Jealous. I had about a quarter of the music when my laptop was stolen. Now I'm back to a pitiful couple thousand.

Anyway, this sounds like it'd be pretty cool if I had a use for it.

[Jefferin Jeffotash]

Jun 6, 2011 12:00:21 GMT -8 Drew said:

Hmm I had heard of Audiogalaxy but I'm always wary of third party applications like that - it works pretty well for you? Do you use it on your phone?

Yeah it works best playing on a phone...

[Drew]

The only differences that I can tell are that iTunes Match hosts all your music on Apple servers somewhere - which is sort of a big difference because then your computer doesn't have to be on and connected to the internet at home for you to use it. Also that iTunes Match gives you 256kbps versions of your songs even if they're lower quality on your computer which is cool. I guess that's what you pay the $25 a year for.

Either way, I'll be using one of these services asap.

[StormyPinkness]

[esrever]

^^ Definitely this.