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Re: Apple iCloud

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Post by jokermatt999 »

dmix wrote: post #4
jokermatt999 wrote: post #3

Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes. I've ranted a number of times on the numerous issues I've had with it, but this service is amazing, especially as someone who doesn't buy their music from iTunes. Why's that? Because for $25, all those older CD rips and music which was certainly acquired legally can now be obtained easily in 256 Apple lossless (edit: not lossless, duh). I don…

> Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes. Windows user? I haven't found a worthy alternative on OSX.

Windows user. iTunes on Windows is almost painfully bad, and pretty much everything else I tried worked better for me, from performance, to customization, to simply working the way I'd prefer. I can expand on the various issues I've had with iTunes in the past if you'd like, but whenever I do so, it tends to become a bit of a rant.

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Post by brosephius »

jasonlotito wrote: post #9
HaloZero wrote: post #8

I am honestly curious how they are going to prevent pirated music from appearing unless by "ripped from CD" they ripped by iTunes from CD. But they mention support songs purchased elsewhere in their blurb. Maybe they just don't give a shit.

This is all just a guess, but... You aren't seeing this the right way. That money? Part of that is going to the labels. That pirate stuff you are adding? Apple will keep track of it, and the labels will get a cut. So yes, the labels know people are going to upload pirate music. At least now, they get some money from it.

which is a pretty progressive decision by music companies. it's like they're accepting that people will pirate music no matter what drm scheme or lawsuit wave they throw out there, so they're trying to find a way to live profitably with it.

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Post by jacquesgt »

pistacchio wrote: post #13

wandering what they'll do with those who paid (recently) for mobile.me

They've refunded some people and moved other people's expiration dates to today. It was on macrumors, but their server looks like it's down right now.

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Post by spullara »

brosephius wrote: post #10

would be awesome if there were an android client :) but seriously, I think I need to see more details on how this works. can I choose to download just one song at a time? can I create a playlist of my cloud'ed music, play it, and delete it? currently with itunes you have to manually select which artists/albums you want to sync if you don't want to sync everything. this would be laborious to manage with multiple devic…

You don't need to manually select them, since the shuffle was released you could always have iTunes select them for you to fill the remaining space on your device.

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Post by chrisbolt »

jokermatt999 wrote: post #3

Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes. I've ranted a number of times on the numerous issues I've had with it, but this service is amazing, especially as someone who doesn't buy their music from iTunes. Why's that? Because for $25, all those older CD rips and music which was certainly acquired legally can now be obtained easily in 256 Apple lossless (edit: not lossless, duh). I don…

I think the only limit is 25,000 songs.

Bottom of http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/: Limit 25,000 songs. iTunes purchases do not count against limit.

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Post by erikstarck »

siglesias wrote: post #6
TomOfTTB wrote: post #2

On the music I have to give Apple credit. At first glance I was kind of annoyed at "download again" being their solution. But the more I think about it the more I think it's better than streaming. You get unlimited downloads so you can adjust for device storage space as needed and being able to download the track means you aren't subject to connection problems. Add that to the fact that all your songs purchased in iT…

I think it's as simple as, consumers don't want to deal with the latency. I pick a song, it plays instantly, within half a second. Online players for now seem naive.

You obviously haven't tried Spotify. It's instantaneous.

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Post by dreamdu5t »

I want more control over my music with the cloud, not less.

* iCloud will not offer the ability to access content outside of Apple's devices: No web-based access has been announced or hinted at.

* Locked into music formats only Apple wants to support: No lossless format, no advanced tagging, no support for open audio standards, the list goes on.

* Forced to use iTunes: Forcing everybody to use iTunes prevents alternatives from being developed or brought to market. iTunes sucks but there's no alternative not because they don't exist, but because Apple's vertical integration prevents alternatives from gaining any ground.

The iTunes Store is great. The iTunes application is horrible. Media lock-in is bad for consumers.

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