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> I use iCloud now. As long as you don't use it to store music... Basically same story, different file type: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250315803 h

> I use iCloud now. As long as you don't use it to store music... Basically same story, different file type: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250315803 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250315803

nitrogen 6y ago
I guess that's one solution to piracy and competition...
kccqzy 6y ago
That's different on so many levels. The photos you take are unique. The music you bought are not. They are produced by someone else. I personally have no qualms when Apple replaced my ripped MP3s with a DRM-free version from the iTunes Store.
- echelon 6y ago
  Apple shouldn't be looking at what you're storing and replacing it with something different. Nor should Google. We shouldn't tolerate this business from any megacorp.
  - kccqzy 6y ago
    They surely can. iTunes Match is not marketed as a music backup service. Its raison d'être is to match your own music to music available in the iTunes Store. It's in the name.
    - nitrogen 6y ago
      The comments in that discussion said that iTunes Match was deleting songs and audio recordings, even those that it didn't match.
    - larusso 6y ago
      Just too bad when it matches the wrong version of an album or song. Happened to me and I already deleted my original mp3. So you need to rip the CD again. But I think it makes sense to match content and only keep the best version on the servers.
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misterchrister 6y ago
Google Music shut down on the 24th, and almost took with it my hoard of 2001-2011 mp3s. The iCloud is walled, but back then I took my collection from machine to machine until they offered a service to upload it all to. Fortunately I caught the email on the 24th and pulled 15gb of tracks via Takeout, because I would have lost a lot of personal works that I just knew would be there. It’s been a nostalgic week. The cloud is too... cloudy.
- willis936 6y ago
  That post was about deduplication incorrectly identifying rare tracks as not unique. I’ve ran into that on play music and it is very annoying. That said, play music was replaced by youtube music. My collection of 10k uploaded songs was moved into the new app without issue. Playlists and all.

nitrogen 6y ago

I guess that's one solution to piracy and competition...

kccqzy 6y ago

That's different on so many levels. The photos you take are unique. The music you bought are not. They are produced by someone else. I personally have no qualms when Apple replaced my ripped MP3s with a DRM-free version from the iTunes Store.

echelon 6y ago
Apple shouldn't be looking at what you're storing and replacing it with something different. Nor should Google. We shouldn't tolerate this business from any megacorp.
- kccqzy 6y ago
  They surely can. iTunes Match is not marketed as a music backup service. Its raison d'être is to match your own music to music available in the iTunes Store. It's in the name.
  - nitrogen 6y ago
    The comments in that discussion said that iTunes Match was deleting songs and audio recordings, even those that it didn't match.
  - larusso 6y ago
    Just too bad when it matches the wrong version of an album or song. Happened to me and I already deleted my original mp3. So you need to rip the CD again. But I think it makes sense to match content and only keep the best version on the servers.

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misterchrister 6y ago

Google Music shut down on the 24th, and almost took with it my hoard of 2001-2011 mp3s. The iCloud is walled, but back then I took my collection from machine to machine until they offered a service to upload it all to. Fortunately I caught the email on the 24th and pulled 15gb of tracks via Takeout, because I would have lost a lot of personal works that I just knew would be there. It’s been a nostalgic week. The cloud is too... cloudy.

willis936 6y ago
That post was about deduplication incorrectly identifying rare tracks as not unique. I’ve ran into that on play music and it is very annoying. That said, play music was replaced by youtube music. My collection of 10k uploaded songs was moved into the new app without issue. Playlists and all.