iTunes Match is Live

[MotionMan]

http://gizmodo.com/5859316/itunes-match-is-live-at-long-last

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/

Scroll down. iTunes Match identified as "Available Now".

MotionMan

 

[Patranus]

I am thinking about accessing it but wondering what the advantage is over Spotify.

 

[Ns1]

I am thinking about accessing it but wondering what the advantage is over Spotify.

25/yr vs 10/mo (assuming it streams)

 

[MotionMan]

I am thinking about accessing it but wondering what the advantage is over Spotify.

It depends on what you have in your current library.

I could see paying for one year of this to get your personal library cleaned up and then moving your business to Spotify.

I have a lot of cleaning up to do, so this will be good for me.

MotionMan

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I am thinking about accessing it but wondering what the advantage is over Spotify.

You can listen to pretty much anything with Spotify though.

 

[Patranus]

25/yr vs 10/mo (assuming it streams)

Ya. Forgot that Spotify costs $$$ to stream to mobile. I have only used it on desktop.

Hrm.

 

[Ns1]

It depends on what you have in your current library.

I could see paying for one year of this to get your personal library cleaned up and then moving your business to Spotify.

I have a lot of cleaning up to do, so this will be good for me.

MotionMan

Why pay $10/mo for spotify when iTunes Match + Transmission will do the same thing for $25/yr?

 

[manly]

LOL and so the laundering begins.

 

[MotionMan]

LOL and so the laundering begins.

LOL. :thumbsup:

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

So what will happen if you have more than 25,000 songs in iTunes?

What if you have 50,000 songs? Can you run 25,000 through the cleaner, remove them from iTunes and then run the next 25,000?

MotionMan

 

[Patranus]

So what will happen if you have more than 25,000 songs in iTunes?

What if you have 50,000 songs? Can you run 25,000 through the cleaner, remove them from iTunes and then run the next 25,000?

MotionMan

From what I have read it doesn't let you activate it until you get your library to 25,000.
I suspect that they will offer additional pricing plans once the service gets established but I doubt 99.9% of the Apple using world has more than 25,000 songs.

 

[MotionMan]

From what I have read it doesn't let you activate it until you get your library to 25,000.
I suspect that they will offer additional pricing plans once the service gets established but I doubt 99.9% of the Apple using world has more than 25,000 songs.

I just read an article that said the part about not letting you activate unless you only have <25,000 songs in iTunes.

I have some trimming to do

MotionMan

 

[scootermaster]

Yeah, it's weird. Back in March, I started building "The Collection". Going through all my MP3s, and pretty much starting from scratch. However many months/hours/gigs later, I've got like 90&#37; of my songs at 320kps, 500x500 (or better) album art, and meticulous (thanks, Musicbrainz!) meta data. Then Spotify happened, which doesn't really matter for me since they have maybe 60% of the stuff I listen to (no Tool? No Zep? No [insert band here they don't have]?) and you have to pay for mobile access.

I just liked the idea that for every song I "fix", it's, like, done forever. Archival quality (at least for an MP3), manicured meta-data, and appropriate album art. That song is done. But now, apparently, iTunes would have done it all for me.

I could have downloaded just any ol' 128kps encoded file with crap meta-data, used iTunes match, deleted the original, and re-downloaded the better version.

Still wondering if it's worth it for one year. On the one hand, there are another 250-400 or so songs I need to clean up before I'm "done" with The Collection -- I'm not one of those people who "collects" music. I really only want things I'm actually going to enjoy listening to, or have some other reason to have (like needing songs for a party mix or something). Of course as time goes on, I'll want to add songs, but presumably doing it a dozen or so songs won't be as bad as the 1500+ I've cleaned up so far.

So I have to decide if it's worth $25 for one year to have iTunes clean up those last songs for me. It probably is, although a surprising percentage of the stuff I get isn't on iTunes, if not being able to download album art is any indication.

Sigh. Decisions decisions.