This is useful, thanks. I didn't realise you could upload (you can with
Match, I thought Apple Music just gave you free access to their
catalogue). My issue is that I have a. ridiculous number of live
bootlegs, sometimes the same gig but different recordings and so on, and
I worried they would get overwritten/'upgraded'. I would be lucky to
find them again, you can't buy them anywhere.
Most of mine was also digitised the hard way from vinyl or cassette
years ago, so it gets weird when the iTunes track has a slightly
different title (eg 'German remix version').
I didn't quite understand the Tangerine Dream story (glances over at my
copy of Ricochet). Do you mean you had it beforehand and then it got
'reorganised'?
I have definitely had iTunes/Music lose stuff, I suspect when I move
everything to a new computer. Entire albums disappear, or odd songs. I
have a separate non-destructive back-up folder that basically copies
anything that's ever in my Music folder. I go into it regularly,
muttering 'I'm sure I had this...'. 70% of the time I find it there
(this also happened recently with TV/Films when I finally moved
everything over from my old computer); thus the paranoia.
Thanks for this. It does sound like my library is (fairly) safe;)
Cheers,
Jason
On 3 Jan 2022, at 19:54, 'Stephen Watson' via Sussex Mac User Group
wrote:
Hi Jason,
I’ve tried to replicate, as closely as I can, my entire CD and vinyl
collection on Apple Music and have mostly done it (despite
Apple’s/licencee’s efforts to thwart me 😐).
Firstly, I’ve never had match or the equivalent to can’t speak for
that.
I have my entire music library downloaded onto my iPhone, but only my
library on my iPad and iMac, meaning that I can play anything on my
iPhone with no internet and I stream it on the other two. Mostly.
The only difference is where Apple Music didn’t have the music I had
which meant I actually used Free Audacity to record the missing vinyl
onto my Mac and then uploaded it to Apple Music or bought the CD where
possible and did the same thing. You can upload your own music to the
cloud and then stream it to other devices which is what I do.
You have to be a detective sometimes! I had three Tangerine Dreams
albums in my library when I first signed up. A month or so later I
went to play one only to find it wasn’t there 😬. What had
happened was than Virgin had put all the early TD albums on one
mega-album and removed the original albums. To get around this I then
setup playlists for the “missing” albums which allows me to treat
them as albums in their own right instead of “tracks 3 and 4 on the
Early Years”. I can set my own cover art too!
There are tracks you can buy, but cannot stream and there are
definitely some weird licensing issues for Apple Music but that is the
way the music companies roll I think, but it’s frustrating and never
happened when I owned the music (either physically or via iTunes).
However, I now have 98% of all the music I’ve ever had on my phone
to take and listen to anywhere (including all my 7” singles) and
it’s a small price to pay for that.
Happy to answer any questions if I can.
Stephen
You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung
On 3 Jan 2022, at 18:43, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi folks
This is one of those 'surely this is easy but no one talks about it
on the web' questions. I have a carefully collected music collection,
mostly lossless, often rare and hard to replace. I've had Apple Match
for years to get stuff on all devices and I've been wondering about
signing up for Apple Music now that it's (sometimes) lossless but
can't pin down what happens with the following:
what happens to the music on my iphone (currently nynced only to the
Mac)? Will it still be kept on the phone or it it all 'forced' to be
streamed? The signal on my train journey is lousy so streaming is not
an option.
what happens to the library on my Mac? Is there still such a thing as
'my library' I can search within?
can I still buy a song? I don't plat to use it for ever, just to see
if the 'related' introduces me to more than my (lets be honest)
80s-focussed collection;)
Grateful for any answers from those who've taken the plunge.
Cheers,
Jason
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