iCloud
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richsadams
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Well, you're actually not paying for your music...again or at all. What you would be paying for is to have all of your music available to you on all of your devices at any time. Network storage, particularly network storage that affords instant streaming isn't free anywhere that I know of.So after reading the iCloud info page it looks like you'll have to pay an extra $25 a year to also have access to all your music (at least what's available in the iCloud library) you've ripped from your own CDs or downloaded from other sources. That's like 99% of what I have.
Yeah, me too. It sucks that we have to pay $25/year...
I don't want to pay again for my music! No thanks, iTunes Match, I'd rather stick with cable syncing!
I've got about 60GB of music and like a lot of folks, most of it has been ripped from my own CD's. All of that plus music I've downloaded from Apple or Amazon or wherever will be available on my iPhone, iPad, iMac, etc., etc. without my having to lift a finger (except for the initial setup...which doesn't require me to copy, transfer or upload anything BTW). If I add a new song or rip a new CD...it's instantly on all of my devices.
Of course all of your music will still be on your computer or your iPad or whatever if you want to keep it there so iTunes will function just fine without iCloud.
With iOS 5 you'll no longer have to use a cable to connect to your computer to sync (providing you have WiFi), iCloud or not.
So I don't know about you, but I have better things to do than sit around while my music syncs to my devices every time I change or update something. Plus my iPhone and iPad (as well as my Macbook Air) have a finite amount of storage. With iCloud I'll no longer have to pick and choose what to sync because I'll have access to all of it! So for that convenience iCloud's couple of bucks a month fee is a bargain in my book. YMMV.
richsadams
iPF Noob
See the second half of my earlier post for clarification:
http://www.ipadforums.net/ipad-general-discussions/33116-icloud-3.html#post236222
richsadams
iPF Noob
More than 100,000 songs? Really? If they averaged three and a half minutes per song it would take you a good two-thirds of a year to listen to each one just once! That's impressive!I don't think you'll have to include every song or album...you could just pick oh, I don't know, the top 20,000! That should be an easy Saturday afternoon's work.
richsadams
iPF Noob
I was really surprised to see it listed on Apple's website!KaiHD said:
I have it.
It is only on the dev page.
Sheesh...I've clearly hit my post-limit for this thread. I'll just lurk in the corner for a while.
graywolf
iPF Noob
richsadams said:I was really surprised to see it listed on Apple's website!
Sheesh...I've clearly hit my post-limit for this thread. I'll just lurk in the corner for a while.
You have only had 4 posts!
And I am surprised to see it on their website too. Anyway they need to fix it. They say download iTunes 10.3 but really the beta iTunes is 10.5. That's what I got from the dev center.
richsadams
iPF Noob
Well alrighty then...just one more.
Here's the content of an email I just received from Apple:
Here's the content of an email I just received from Apple:
JJK
iPF Noob
richsadams said:
I don't think you'll have to include every song or album...you could just pick oh, I don't know, the top 20,000! That should be an easy Saturday afternoon's work.
305.9 days to be exact. Or 370 Gb. Agree I could take the "top" 20'000. Maybe I will try for a year.
First I will have to spend a few Saturdays to select them.
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richsadams
iPF Noob
Just received the email from Apple about my MobileMe refund:
That was nice.
That was nice.
