iTunes Match
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:50 pm
With Apple's announcement today, your entire iTunes music collection can live in the Cloud and be available to you anywhere. (details here: apple.com/icloud)
I think this is really exciting, but I have a few concerns:
If I have ripped, say, my Mosaic set of Ellington Small Groups to my iTunes library, is the Cloud then going to match it to a lesser (not-as-nicely remastered) version that lives in the iTunes store and then sync back that version to my other devices? Some of the iTunes early jazz and blues has woeful audio quality (poor remastering), despite its 256kb/s AAC format. I'd hate to accidentally give myself inferior copies.
Does this mean that all the F#@!wits that have got their music collections by torrenting mass files and exchanging collections (with DJ mates for example), can effectively launder (legitimize) their collections by washing them through the iTunes Match Cloud? Maybe it doesn't matter since they have already done the deed.
Thoughts?
I think this is really exciting, but I have a few concerns:
If I have ripped, say, my Mosaic set of Ellington Small Groups to my iTunes library, is the Cloud then going to match it to a lesser (not-as-nicely remastered) version that lives in the iTunes store and then sync back that version to my other devices? Some of the iTunes early jazz and blues has woeful audio quality (poor remastering), despite its 256kb/s AAC format. I'd hate to accidentally give myself inferior copies.
Does this mean that all the F#@!wits that have got their music collections by torrenting mass files and exchanging collections (with DJ mates for example), can effectively launder (legitimize) their collections by washing them through the iTunes Match Cloud? Maybe it doesn't matter since they have already done the deed.
Thoughts?