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In Reply to: iTunes Match is not for me, here's why posted by Teresa on June 27, 2012 at 18:43:54:
Teresa > iTunes Match is not for me, here's why
Hi Teresa,
I guess you are not in Apple's target market, which covers just about every living breathing person in the whole world. What I was asking about was the quality of the tunes that can be heard. When things go in the direction Neil Young and Steve jobs were taking about. We may see HD files permanently backed up in the cloud with this service. But for now they are feeding the 250,000,000 people who buy iTunes at a dollar a pop.
Teresa >My lowest music bit-rate on my computer is 1304 kbps (Apple Lossless 24/48), my highest bit rate is 4608 kbps (AIFF 24/96) so iTunes Match at 256 kbps is unacceptable to me.
If you had those files on your main computer, that is where they would still be, but you can have up to ten devices running around in non-optimum listening environments, updating in real time with 256 kbps. My girlfriend has 22,000 songs at her beck and call, just on her iPhone.
Teresa >I also own a 2 GB iPod shuffle, that is what my Apple Lossless 24/48 music files are for, which range from 1304 kbps to 1896 kbps.
Teresa I Drive with my tiny Fat nano, with lossless songs and 3-way earphones. I leave the same tunes in there for weeks. My iPod is half full including a few TV shows. Match does not yet have HD files, and as it is, it is not a back up service for deteriorating hard-drives. But it could be down the line. As Neil recently said, it is bad enough that the files are only 3% of what artist's record for fans. What I am adding is, if iTunes is just oversampling, even lower quality files, then that is just criminal!! A HD file should only be twice the size of a CD file. They cost more than twice as much, and the improvement is sound is considered marginal by just about everyone.
Teresa > What it does is substitute the version from the iTunes store for the one you upload.
I do not think that is true. If they find it fine, they give you and everyone else in the world the link too the same file. Like a web address. But if yours is different they upload it and store it. Like bootlegs and concerts. They have no way to sell these to anybody. If someone else has a request to store the the same wave form, they will give them a link to your file.
Teresa >Downgrades high resolution music files to 256kbps using iCloud on any device you own when reloading. Again, it substitutes the version from the iTunes store for the one you upload.
It degrades the file with your own computer before it sends it up. If it was in the iTunes store, if they detected a similar wave form they would just have given you the link. It is very fast. Your computer tells them what you have, and they send you the link. You can remove the file from your iTunes folder and keep on ancient storage devices, or put it up in iCloud outside of iTunes Match. I Tunes Match is for streaming the songs on Apple mobile devices and iPhones.
Teresa > If you have high resolution music files then you still need to save them to an external hard-drive or DVD-R's in case you have to reload them to your computer.
Sad to say but those storage mediums are a thing of the distant past. All hard drives with moving parts fail, and you should know that already. iTunes Match is revolutionary, consumers don’t understand the cloud, they don’t realize they’re already using the cloud. To get the best sound you need to put up with reduced usability. Do you have any doubt that the mainstream has throw out accurate reproductive ability for connivance?
iTunes Match stores a user’s entire music library in the cloud, and enables access to this music library through ten web-connected Apple devices at the same time, for a small fee. It backs-up data and provides a web-service. In allows a user to access any piece of music that they own on any iTunes-enabled device, in real-time. What it probably does not do, is make a 160 bit-depth song, into 256 bit-depth.
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Follow Ups
- How doe it work? - Sumflow 21:23:08 06/27/12 (5)
- Here’s how iTunes Match works - Teresa 17:37:01 06/28/12 (0)
- What, a female deer? Audio website: but you missed that - Sordidman 09:46:36 06/28/12 (2)
- RE: What, a female deer? - Sumflow 11:53:26 06/28/12 (1)
- delete, then re-post: or better yet, - not waste our time - Sordidman 12:11:23 06/28/12 (0)
- Thanks for the link to the Neil Young interview, it was great! - Teresa 23:21:11 06/27/12 (0)
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