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I have curated local music library in Music app, with many rare recordings and versions that does no exist in streaming anywhere. I also subscribe to Apple Mus

by bni 4y ago

I have curated local music library in Music app, with many rare recordings and versions that does no exist in streaming anywhere. I also subscribe to Apple Music. This works fine. The only gripe I have is I can't make playlists in Apple Music when its setup like this. I don't care much though because I don't use streaming like that. If files are important to you, keep a backup, outside of cloud, or in another vendors cloud.

nixpulvis 4y ago
Fine-ish. Sometimes it gets really really confused.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y ago
  Yeah, I gave up on iTunes very recently and moved to owntone because iTunes does not play nice with network shares. If the share isn’t available when you launch the app it reverts to storing files locally without telling you. It also can’t really handle artists with arbitrary Unicode in their names, and forgets where the file is under conditions that I could never quite determine. It’s never deleted a file though, not once in 15 years. A poorly-designed SSD whose rubberised coating kept it too toasty did kill a lot of my music, but that’s what backup strategies are for.
rsync 4y ago
"If files are important to you, keep a backup, outside of cloud, or in another vendors cloud." Agreed. Broadly speaking, I don't think of my music collection as critical data ... and yet, when I examine the time, care and energy I have expended ripping CDs, naming and cataloging these files they are probably the single largest data input job I have ever taken part in. So with that in mind I do, indeed, treat it as critical data and have it properly backed up. "If files are important to you ..." There is this UI element in itunes / apple music where you can choose what to arrange music by: https://ipodiphoneitunestutorials.com/iTunesTutorials/i/img80.jpg https://ipodiphoneitunestutorials.com/iTunesTutorials/i/img8... ... and note that "filename" is not in that huge, comprehensive list. That tells you everything you need to know.

by bni 4y ago

nixpulvis 4y ago

Fine-ish. Sometimes it gets really really confused.

YurgenJurgensen 4y ago
Yeah, I gave up on iTunes very recently and moved to owntone because iTunes does not play nice with network shares. If the share isn’t available when you launch the app it reverts to storing files locally without telling you. It also can’t really handle artists with arbitrary Unicode in their names, and forgets where the file is under conditions that I could never quite determine. It’s never deleted a file though, not once in 15 years. A poorly-designed SSD whose rubberised coating kept it too toasty did kill a lot of my music, but that’s what backup strategies are for.

rsync 4y ago

"If files are important to you, keep a backup, outside of cloud, or in another vendors cloud." Agreed. Broadly speaking, I don't think of my music collection as critical data ... and yet, when I examine the time, care and energy I have expended ripping CDs, naming and cataloging these files they are probably the single largest data input job I have ever taken part in. So with that in mind I do, indeed, treat it as critical data and have it properly backed up. "If files are important to you ..." There is this UI element in itunes / apple music where you can choose what to arrange music by: https://ipodiphoneitunestutorials.com/iTunesTutorials/i/img80.jpg https://ipodiphoneitunestutorials.com/iTunesTutorials/i/img8... ... and note that "filename" is not in that huge, comprehensive list. That tells you everything you need to know.