itunes cloud?
I'm helping a friend. He says he has lots of music - too much to fit on his laptop or phone. He says there's iTunes cloud version now and wants to know how to get music up there.
Anyone know what he's talking about?
Anyone know what he's talking about?
I've heard of icloud. you get 5GB free. you can buy more, right? The music you buy from iTunes doesn't count towards the 5GB or however much you are paying for? You can upload your own music to them and then listen to it when you have internet access? I don't see that described on that page.
Apple will probably only allow you to store music in iCloud that you purchase from them....
Read the fine print in the terms and conditions.
Read the fine print in the terms and conditions.
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'store music in icloud'. Does that mean they can stream from that web storage? Or it keeps it there to be download the entire library to a device before playing? If you don't have much space on your device, is keeping gigs of music in the cloud and listening to it from the cloud going to work / help the minimal local storage issue?
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oh! once the music is in icloud, then it will stream! and songs you bought will stream too I guess? from where? in the iTunes app under radio?
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Cyclops don't mean to split hairs - you said
click that icon it will download it making it available when no internet access is available, but if you have the internet link, then you play the songs just like if they were on your device. Is it doing both? Playing it and downloading it also? So over time you are downloading all that's up in the cloud / filling up your hard drive?
click that icon it will download it making it available when no internet access is available, but if you have the internet link, then you play the songs just like if they were on your device. Is it doing both? Playing it and downloading it also? So over time you are downloading all that's up in the cloud / filling up your hard drive?
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OK, work with me if you don't mind : )
I created a new iTunes account on a lab machine (no music installed). I bought a free song and it immediately downloaded it to this machine.
is it in icloud also now? and available for streaming from OTHER machines? can I delete the file from this machine to see the streaming feature? can you give me some tips / the process to see the cloud icon for that song / see that I can stream?
Taht's with bought songs. To get my songs into the cloud - do I have to test by signing up for that $25 service?
I created a new iTunes account on a lab machine (no music installed). I bought a free song and it immediately downloaded it to this machine.
is it in icloud also now? and available for streaming from OTHER machines? can I delete the file from this machine to see the streaming feature? can you give me some tips / the process to see the cloud icon for that song / see that I can stream?
Taht's with bought songs. To get my songs into the cloud - do I have to test by signing up for that $25 service?
ok, in iTunes, I went into store, turn on match and got the page asking if I want to pay $24.99. that cost is only for me to deal with songs not purchased through iTunes, right?
The idea of matching what they already have vs. 'yeah, we never heard that song before' and they upload it. Do I know which ones they matched vs. which they uploaded? do I care? performance wise it'll be the same?
If I record lectures at school, match certainly won't have that - it'll upload all of my personal audio files? or what's it consider music : ) ? a 2 hour lecture gets backed up in the cloud for 24.99 / year along with real songs too?
Looking at the sign up page, it talks about 25K song limit, your iTunes purchase are unlimited if available in the iTunes store. (so if they stop selling a song you bought from them, then that will count towards your 25K song limit?
Anyway, to get match working, you have to have iTunes set up on 1 machine with all the songs you want to match / upload? vs. some songs on this machine / some songs on another?
The idea of matching what they already have vs. 'yeah, we never heard that song before' and they upload it. Do I know which ones they matched vs. which they uploaded? do I care? performance wise it'll be the same?
If I record lectures at school, match certainly won't have that - it'll upload all of my personal audio files? or what's it consider music : ) ? a 2 hour lecture gets backed up in the cloud for 24.99 / year along with real songs too?
Looking at the sign up page, it talks about 25K song limit, your iTunes purchase are unlimited if available in the iTunes store. (so if they stop selling a song you bought from them, then that will count towards your 25K song limit?
Anyway, to get match working, you have to have iTunes set up on 1 machine with all the songs you want to match / upload? vs. some songs on this machine / some songs on another?
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I'm trying it now, but how would you say to do this so you still have it:
If you delete it from the lab machine, you'll be able to stream it.
I went into the library on that test machine. I right clicked and deleted it from the music page. Then I went into playlists and there it was : ) it had the cloud with arrow. I clicked on the file and it started playing and I saw the download button : )
So I want to 'buy' a bunch of free songs to play with this feature. In the store under music, there's a 'free on iTunes' link. I click on that and there's only 1 song for free? Sound right?
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If you delete it from the lab machine, you'll be able to stream it.
I went into the library on that test machine. I right clicked and deleted it from the music page. Then I went into playlists and there it was : ) it had the cloud with arrow. I clicked on the file and it started playing and I saw the download button : )
So I want to 'buy' a bunch of free songs to play with this feature. In the store under music, there's a 'free on iTunes' link. I click on that and there's only 1 song for free? Sound right?
THANKS!
Right, I only see the Christina Perri song for free.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4759