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Apple Music does this for half that price. - Rating and tagging - Upload and download your own stuff if you want to (marketed as iCloud Music Library) - Work

Apple Music does this for half that price. - Rating and tagging - Upload and download your own stuff if you want to (marketed as iCloud Music Library) - Works offline - Discovery services available - API exists but mostly used to implement web players for some reason, works fine in desktop apps too, on top of that the current state of your music library is always available as an XML file even when you don't use the API at all. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/

loudtieblahblah 5y ago
Is it a true upload or some crappy file/fingerprint matching? Most of these services aren't ever true uploads and do matching to save time, bandwidth and space.
- Omniusaspirer 5y ago
  It's fingerprint matching, and yeah it's poorly implemented. Most recent complaints I've seen on this were for the fan made explicit version of Kanye's Donda. It was basically impossible to upload since it would just get matched to the clean version.
- oneplane 5y ago
  Matching is optional. If a song cannot be matched, your own copy gets uploaded instead to your private iCloud library. Edit: well, it's a bit nuanced of course, you can not match and not sync or match and sync but you can't mix and match that configuration. So it's either sync with matching when possible or no syncing.
  - loudtieblahblah 5y ago
    I have a lot of rare stuff. Demos, live albums (grateful Dead, dmb), live captures of daft punk at Coachella, underground hip hop mixtapes, CDrips of local punk and Ska bands from the 90s Fingerprint matching barfs on all this stuff.
    - oneplane 5y ago
      I haven't had an active subscription for a while (when iTunes was the desktop app instead of Music being the desktop app) but I distinctly remember being able to set metadata in the Info panel on a song or multiple at once that prevented fingerprint matching.

loudtieblahblah 5y ago

Is it a true upload or some crappy file/fingerprint matching? Most of these services aren't ever true uploads and do matching to save time, bandwidth and space.

Omniusaspirer 5y ago
It's fingerprint matching, and yeah it's poorly implemented. Most recent complaints I've seen on this were for the fan made explicit version of Kanye's Donda. It was basically impossible to upload since it would just get matched to the clean version.
oneplane 5y ago
Matching is optional. If a song cannot be matched, your own copy gets uploaded instead to your private iCloud library. Edit: well, it's a bit nuanced of course, you can not match and not sync or match and sync but you can't mix and match that configuration. So it's either sync with matching when possible or no syncing.
- loudtieblahblah 5y ago
  I have a lot of rare stuff. Demos, live albums (grateful Dead, dmb), live captures of daft punk at Coachella, underground hip hop mixtapes, CDrips of local punk and Ska bands from the 90s Fingerprint matching barfs on all this stuff.
  - oneplane 5y ago
    I haven't had an active subscription for a while (when iTunes was the desktop app instead of Music being the desktop app) but I distinctly remember being able to set metadata in the Info panel on a song or multiple at once that prevented fingerprint matching.