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I'm a very happy Apple Music subscriber, but I'm also 52 and so own thousands of CDs and hundreds of LPs. I subscribed to AM for a possibly non-intuitive reaso
by ubermonkey 4y ago
I'm a very happy Apple Music subscriber, but I'm also 52 and so own thousands of CDs and hundreds of LPs.
I subscribed to AM for a possibly non-intuitive reason: for me, the "all you can eat" aspect is secondary. The driver was "stop syncing my phone." My library is too large to carry on my main computer, so the "music computer" had to be the one running iTunes and whatnot. Getting something new on there was a hassle, and couldn't be done on the move.
Moreover, while this scenario made sense to ME, my wife found it so off-putting that I discovered she was just not listening to music on her phone at all.
AM solved this problem pretty well. PLUS, AM has a feature where it will give you access via Apple Music to weird, indie, or out of print stuff in your library that might not exist in Apple Music's library.
A case in point is the 1990 Wendy & Lisa record Eroica. It's one of my favorites, and has always been part of my library -- it's even been re-ripped, because the first time I digitized it I only used 128Kbps MP3, and I wanted it at 256Kbps AAC. But it's also 100% not available via any streaming service because of rights issues of some kind.
YOU can't get it from Apple Music, but I can because Apple Music sees it in the library on my music server. That's pretty cool.
- 56friends 4y agoInteresting. Do you know if this extends to basically all digitized music regardless of the specifics of artist/label streaming preferences? Eg King Crimson’s catalog was never added to Spotify, if I link my ripped CDs to AM, would it make it available for me to stream on my phone?
- jonathantf2 4y agoI believe, yes. I have various live versions of albums that have been ripped from streams and radio, Apple tries to match them to their library to save space and then just lets you wifi sync them. Shows up right next to the other music in your library.
- mrkstu 4y agoThe feature is called iTunes Match- you can actually get it standalone from Apple Music (at least you could, not sure if they have changed anything recently,) but AM includes it: Links: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253762018#:~:text=Yes%2C%20the%20Apple%20Music%20subscription,pending%20renewal%20of%20iTunes%20Match https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253762018#:~:text=Yes%2....
- ubermonkey 4y agoYes. Indie stuff given to me on CD-R and ripped to my iTunes library is available to me via Apple Music, which I think would be the acid test.
- npteljes 4y agoYouTube Music also has this adding your own files feature.
- ValentineC 4y agoI miss Google Play Music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Music
- npteljes 4y agoLooks similar to YouTube Music, from what I can see on the screenshots. What is there that you miss about it?
- ValentineC 4y agoGoogle Play Music didn't commingle your uploaded music with YouTube, and their discovery algorithm was much better.