Re: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
Sieghard, For me, i do exactly what you do, I have my entire iTunes library stored on a NAS, and I ripped all my music at high bit rates, I cannot seem to think of a good reason to use iTunes Match. Simply it takes a few minutes to move music back onto the phone and my audio quality is higher than that of iTunes. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 19 Oct 2012, at 21:10, Marc Rocheleau marcrochelea...@gmail.com wrote: Another negative: I know how to tag things properly and for Greatest Hits compilations (I'll use R.E.M.'s last one as an example) it matches only the song. By this I mean, in certain cases, it'll download the original album version of a song that came out in say... the 80's... and not the remastered greatest hits version. This means sound quality and volume levels throughout the compilation will then fluctuate on playback because albums back then were mastered at a lower volume level. -Marc On 10/19/12, Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com wrote: I would concur with that as well. I do not sync all my music to my phone and for sure that is do to a lack of sufficient space. :) The only other advantage is if you had material that was 128Kb and if there was a match available from iTunes Match you could swap the 128Kb for 256. So, if you ripped your own stuff you would not benefit either. On Oct 19, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Damashe Thomas damashe.tho...@gmail.com wrote: If I were in your position, I don't think I would have subscribed to iTunes match. I chose to use it because I can't put all my music on my iPhone and still have room for the many apps and podcasts that are stored there. It is just an opinion, but the only advantage I think you would gain at this point would be having an extra backup of sorts of all your music. There may be some other reasons for you to subscribe, but I can't think of any at the moment. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:23 PM Subject: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this
RE: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
Hi, I agree with the previous poster, I also have just a bit over 15000 songs, and I'd like to be able to access that wherever I am. Keep in mind, however, that under iOS 6, you can stream tracks without the device downloading them as they play, but there's a really stupid limitation that's in place, where you can't download single tracks, just albums or playlists to the phone. I still absolutely love the service, and will continue to renew each year. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ShamelessFanGirl Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 12:14 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question Good evening/very early morning all, Having recently signed up for this service myself, I can tell you firsthand what motivated me to go for iTunes Match, after doing a goodly bit of fence-riding for the last year while trying to make up my mind. I have a library of just under 15000 songs, and found myself wanting that collection at my fingertips at all times, rather than needing to access it from my computer only. True enough I have a 64 GB phone, but do a lot of audiobooks, thus, space is a problem, and iTunes Match provided me a way of having the best of both worlds. It's doubly convenient, because you have the option to download your tracks from the cloud, if you know you'll be without net access, so again, provides the best of both the streaming, and physical media worlds. To the original poster: I'm in agreement with what everyone else has said here, in that I don't think you'd get much out of the service for the reasons already outlined.Unlike yours truly, it sounds as if you manage the space on your phone wisely. :D Have fun all, and as always, take care. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, while I like the idea of iTunes Match, it's not for me. However if others use it, friends, family, etc, I support them. My reasons for not using it is because I get the same functionality from AudioGalaxy. Yes, I probably avoid the 256 encoding it offers, but that's not important to me. With AudioGalaxy I have access to all of my music and I'm not limited to the 25 thousand songs that you would be with iTunes Match. If I want to hear music I don't have in my own collection then I can use Pandora or Songza as alternatives. If I'm traveling and won't have access to the cloud, then I can easily keep around 5 or 10 gb of music on my phone, not using iTunes Match, and have access to local songs that way. So, for me it's just not worth it. -- Raul A. Gallegos Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rau47 On 10/19/2012 1:23 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to
iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
Hi Sieghard, I can't answer any of your questions, but how long did it take you to synck 23 GB of music from your laptop to your phone? Thanks. Keith -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 12:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
Hi Keith, I recently did a factory restore after upgrading to iOS 6 and I set up my phone as a new phone and started from scratch. I didn't time it exactly, but I think it took about 45 minutes to an hour. This of course is with the phone connected by cable, not syncing via WiFi. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 10:44 AM To: 'viphone@googlegroups.com' Subject: RE: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question Hi Sieghard, I can't answer any of your questions, but how long did it take you to synck 23 GB of music from your laptop to your phone? Thanks. Keith -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 12:23 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
If I were in your position, I don't think I would have subscribed to iTunes match. I chose to use it because I can't put all my music on my iPhone and still have room for the many apps and podcasts that are stored there. It is just an opinion, but the only advantage I think you would gain at this point would be having an extra backup of sorts of all your music. There may be some other reasons for you to subscribe, but I can't think of any at the moment. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:23 PM Subject: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
I would concur with that as well. I do not sync all my music to my phone and for sure that is do to a lack of sufficient space. :) The only other advantage is if you had material that was 128Kb and if there was a match available from iTunes Match you could swap the 128Kb for 256. So, if you ripped your own stuff you would not benefit either. On Oct 19, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Damashe Thomas damashe.tho...@gmail.com wrote: If I were in your position, I don't think I would have subscribed to iTunes match. I chose to use it because I can't put all my music on my iPhone and still have room for the many apps and podcasts that are stored there. It is just an opinion, but the only advantage I think you would gain at this point would be having an extra backup of sorts of all your music. There may be some other reasons for you to subscribe, but I can't think of any at the moment. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:23 PM Subject: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
Another negative: I know how to tag things properly and for Greatest Hits compilations (I'll use R.E.M.'s last one as an example) it matches only the song. By this I mean, in certain cases, it'll download the original album version of a song that came out in say... the 80's... and not the remastered greatest hits version. This means sound quality and volume levels throughout the compilation will then fluctuate on playback because albums back then were mastered at a lower volume level. -Marc On 10/19/12, Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com wrote: I would concur with that as well. I do not sync all my music to my phone and for sure that is do to a lack of sufficient space. :) The only other advantage is if you had material that was 128Kb and if there was a match available from iTunes Match you could swap the 128Kb for 256. So, if you ripped your own stuff you would not benefit either. On Oct 19, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Damashe Thomas damashe.tho...@gmail.com wrote: If I were in your position, I don't think I would have subscribed to iTunes match. I chose to use it because I can't put all my music on my iPhone and still have room for the many apps and podcasts that are stored there. It is just an opinion, but the only advantage I think you would gain at this point would be having an extra backup of sorts of all your music. There may be some other reasons for you to subscribe, but I can't think of any at the moment. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:23 PM Subject: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at
Re: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
Hi, while I like the idea of iTunes Match, it's not for me. However if others use it, friends, family, etc, I support them. My reasons for not using it is because I get the same functionality from AudioGalaxy. Yes, I probably avoid the 256 encoding it offers, but that's not important to me. With AudioGalaxy I have access to all of my music and I'm not limited to the 25 thousand songs that you would be with iTunes Match. If I want to hear music I don't have in my own collection then I can use Pandora or Songza as alternatives. If I'm traveling and won't have access to the cloud, then I can easily keep around 5 or 10 gb of music on my phone, not using iTunes Match, and have access to local songs that way. So, for me it's just not worth it. -- Raul A. Gallegos Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rau47 On 10/19/2012 1:23 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question
Good evening/very early morning all, Having recently signed up for this service myself, I can tell you firsthand what motivated me to go for iTunes Match, after doing a goodly bit of fence-riding for the last year while trying to make up my mind. I have a library of just under 15000 songs, and found myself wanting that collection at my fingertips at all times, rather than needing to access it from my computer only. True enough I have a 64 GB phone, but do a lot of audiobooks, thus, space is a problem, and iTunes Match provided me a way of having the best of both worlds. It's doubly convenient, because you have the option to download your tracks from the cloud, if you know you'll be without net access, so again, provides the best of both the streaming, and physical media worlds. To the original poster: I'm in agreement with what everyone else has said here, in that I don't think you'd get much out of the service for the reasons already outlined.Unlike yours truly, it sounds as if you manage the space on your phone wisely. :D Have fun all, and as always, take care. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, while I like the idea of iTunes Match, it's not for me. However if others use it, friends, family, etc, I support them. My reasons for not using it is because I get the same functionality from AudioGalaxy. Yes, I probably avoid the 256 encoding it offers, but that's not important to me. With AudioGalaxy I have access to all of my music and I'm not limited to the 25 thousand songs that you would be with iTunes Match. If I want to hear music I don't have in my own collection then I can use Pandora or Songza as alternatives. If I'm traveling and won't have access to the cloud, then I can easily keep around 5 or 10 gb of music on my phone, not using iTunes Match, and have access to local songs that way. So, for me it's just not worth it. -- Raul A. Gallegos Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rau47 On 10/19/2012 1:23 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hello List, I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more
