OK, that's what I'll do. Just need a bit of confidence in myself ... Carol P ---- Original Message ---- From: Jonathan Mosen To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 5:26 AM Subject: RE: Accessibility of iTunes Match in iOS
> Hi Carol, you could either add a folder at a time, if > your music is structured that way, or you could select > multiple files using standard selection methods, and add > them that way. > > If you read the status line in the music section of > iTunes, it will tell you how many tracks are in the > library, the playing time and the disk space used. > Jonathan > > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carol > Pearson > Sent: Friday, 22 June 2012 4:20 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Accessibility of iTunes Match in iOS > > > Jonathan, > > I'm feeling keen to do the same, but my knowledge of > ITunes (well, actually getting things to work) is not > that good, as probably is the same for a lot of people on > this list. > > I know how to create a new (empty, presumably) library > but then ... Could you give us a quick specific tour of > how we select the songs we really want there - and not > others - and how we work out just how much storage space > we're taking up in the library? > > If you do not feel able to do this, because of time > constraints, perhaps someone else would kindly bite the > bullet! > > Carol P > ---- Original Message ---- > From: Jonathan Mosen > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 3:14 AM > Subject: Accessibility of iTunes Match in iOS > > > Hi all, well I bit the bullet this week and created a > > library in iTunes that was under 25000 of my own ripped > > tracks, so I could take advantage of iTunes Match. I've > > been ripping my music for 15 years now, so the idea of > > getting nice fresh rips in 256K AAC really appeals to > > me, and I created a smart playlist to replace all my > > rips with the AAC versions. I was super impressed that > > tracks I had digitised long ago from my vinyl > > collection were matched with a nice clean digital copy > > in the cloud. Sweet. > > > > However, I hope I'm missing something, because > > otherwise, iTunes Match is the first thing built into > > iOS that I don't think is particularly accessible. > > > > Since I have a few 12/13 hour flights coming up, I've > > set up a couple of playlists whose contents I want to > > download to my iPhone so I can hear them when I don't > > have an Internet connection. I go into the Music app, > > locate the playlist, and choose the Download All button > > at the bottom of the screen. The phone gets really > > sluggish, but also, I find that there appears to be no > > verbal indication about what songs are in the cloud, and > > what songs are stored on the phone. If you look in > > iTunes, you can go into the view options and check the > > boxes so you are told very clearly what songs are local, > > and what songs are not. And I believe that visually, a > > sighted person can see in iOS where a particular song is > > stored. > > > > I've sort of worked around this by starting the > > download, going into the Settings for the Music App, > > and disabling show all music, so I only see what songs > > are on the phone, but that's not a perfect solution. > > Has anyone else seen this and even better, found a > > work-around? > > > > Jonathan > > -- > > 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/[email protected]/. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > 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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
