Hi Jason,
I can’t vouch for uploading items which may have the same name by
the same
artist that is on Apple Music already as the only ones I have
recorded and
uploaded were because they did not exist on AM. If you keep backups
of all
your bootlegs (as it sounds as though you do) then you should be fine
if it
goes pear-shaped.
You can definitely upload your own recordings and then stream them
back
down, for example my copy of “You’ve got to be a hustler if you
want to get
on!” by Sue Wilkinson is inexplicably not in the AM catalogue but I
can
play it on all my devices after recording the 7” vinyl myself and
then
uploading it to AM. 😀
One of my albums was Ricochet & I had it on vinyl since release.
Joined up
to AM and Ricochet was there so I added it to my library. When I went
to
play it next it said it was no longer available, or similar! It
turned out
that the Album had been removed as an individual album, but had been
subsumed into “Tangerine Dream - the Virgin Years 1970 to 1978”,
or
something like that. Ricochet has now become two tracks on a
“compilation
album”. So, I created a playlist called Ricochet, added just those
two
tracks that comprise Ricochet taken from the compilation and set the
playlist’s artwork to the Ricochet cover. Longwinded but I
effectively
re-created the album. I have a “virtual albums” folder which
contains
several playlists like this. Joan Armatrading’s “Show Some
Emotion” album
is not in the AM catalogue(!) but all but one of its tracks are
present
scattered across about 3 compilation albums so I’ve made another
virtual
album of that. It’s very tedious and is the price of streaming …
Apart from this silliness, which I suspect is out of Apple’s hands
and in
those of the labels and copyright holders, I’ve loved it - pretty
much
every piece of music I’ve ever had at home (bar a few tracks) I can
now
listen to when I want in the car or train or bus. That’s worth the
annoyances. And the fee … plus of course, I can add anything
interesting
that I hear.
You may like to try out the “Albums” app. It doesn’t understand
my
“virtual albums” as Apple’s app does, but it’s got some
brilliant features
and treats your music like a collection of … albums which is how
I’ve
always seen my collection.
Cheers,
Stephen
You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung
On 3 Jan 2022, at 21:42, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group <
[email protected]> wrote:
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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