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.
