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More details emerge about Apple's iCloud music service

May 27th 2011 10:59AM (TUAW.com)
"mcdj said 8:51AM on 5-27-2011

@jm

How will I know which songs they do and don't have the ability to stream? Am I going to scroll through every track in iTunes and see if it has a cloud icon next to it? "

If songs are going to show if they are in the iCloud or not it most likely will mean that there will be a way to do custom (smart or dumb) playlists to create non iCloud songs to your device.

More details emerge about Apple's iCloud music service

May 27th 2011 10:52AM (TUAW.com)
"mcdj said 12:17AM on 5-27-2011

I think the more music you have, the less sense it makes. I have 200gb of music…how long will it take to upload all of that, at my ISP's paltry 1mb upload rate? A week? A month? And what happens when I decide I want to hear a track I don't have on my iPhone, while driving in a 3G dead zone like upstate NY? Sure, I can't fit all my music on my iPhone even now, but I'm also not paying anyone to store my music. If I don't have a particular track, I only have myself to blame. If I pay Apple to store/stream my music, what happens when they simply can't deliver for lack of internet connection?"

I'm confused. You have 200 gb of and that all fits on your iPhone? Where did you get an iPhone that holds 200 gb of music? I'd love to find one so that I could fit all my music on it because I currently can't.

BTW, most of my apps, especially my big apps like Navigon GPS and games over 1 gb are on my iPad and not my iPhone. Everything is trimmed down to a nub on my iPhone except for my music and I can't fit half my music on my iPhone.

Plus - if you read the article, the articles says that your hard drive is scanned and then apple does NOT upload those songs but marks in their database that you have those songs in iTunes. There is only one direction that songs go, and that is TO your computer, not FROM it to the cloud.

More details emerge about Apple's iCloud music service

May 27th 2011 10:39AM (TUAW.com)
"Robert Lee said 12:48AM on 5-27-2011

I don't understand why anyone would NOT want to own their music. Doing a subscription is a joke. Renting movies and tv shows is quite different as you don't usually replay them over and over again. However...if and when iTunes ever shuts its doors (i doubt it but could happen), all those months/years of paying $10 a month for these songs didn't mean a damn thing.

I would rather pay .99 or whatever to own the songs for life no matter what happens to iTunes or Apple (or any subscription based companies) down the road.

Just saying..."

I couldn't agree more.

More details emerge about Apple's iCloud music service

May 27th 2011 10:36AM (TUAW.com)
"An NPD analyst has even told Businessweek that he believes "We will come to a point in the not-so-distant future when we'll look back on the 99-cent download as anachronistic as cassette tapes or 8-tracks."

And I think the person is a complete idiot that is talking out his rear end in hope that he will never have to pay anything for anything again.

Umpire strikes out as Find My iPhone goes horribly wrong

May 26th 2011 6:22PM (TUAW.com)
"I am the brute squad!". Quote from "The Princess Bride"

Guitar solo on iPad shreds

May 26th 2011 11:03AM (TUAW.com)
For the person who can't appreciate the skill of the other person that created this video, give us something better. In only giving us something better, made only with iPads by the way, does your opinion count.

Alice did an excellent job using what tool she was using. The limiting, is the iPad. Now tell me about ANY device out there that can do everything that Alice did and do it better for anywhere near the price and portability that includes ALL of the instruments that she used. As far as I know, no other ones exist. THAT, and Alice doing very well, is the point.

Great job Alice. I'm jealous (in a good way) of your musical abilities.

I'm in awe of Apple getting things are good as they are at this point in time. I expect Apple to make the instruments sound less digital over time if that is possible and I think it is.

TomTom GPS app offers good maps, terrible interface

May 25th 2011 6:27PM (TUAW.com)
Wow - what sexist comments on here. What are we, cave people still? Geez.

I live in the NW United States and bought Tom Tom when it was $99 for the iPhone. I HATED IT!

A few months later I bought Navigon when it came out. It was a LOT better.

I haven't tried out Tom Tom since the upgrade. Maybe I should but it was horrible when I tried it before.

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me upload my stuff to Amazon Cloud

May 25th 2011 9:32AM (TUAW.com)
Hi John B.,

Very true. But at least it would be a start. The app could be setup so that any changes to tablature would stick with comments about any notes that change on other "views" which would allow them to change the tabs to the version of the note that they want.

Maybe there could be a settings to choose where on the neck the guitar player, "normallly" likes to play with the ability to slide everything up or down the neck ...? Nothing is perfect. At least it would be a place to start. Right?

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me upload my stuff to Amazon Cloud

May 23rd 2011 1:20PM (TUAW.com)
I'm trying to find software for my iPad (preferably) or my Mac to write music with. I've found some that sort of do what I want but not what I need.

One of my friends can't read music at all, he can only read tablature. So I'd like to be able to write everything once and be able to click from "normal" to tablature and back. And I'd like to be able to write multiple parts for each song but have to always have all parts showing all the time. We are just a garage band that is just starting out and while we are learning existing songs, I was hoping to use my iPad, or my Mac, to automate the process of writing music but I'm just not finding what I want/need in either the iOS store or the Mac Store. Maybe someone that reads this will know of a good app.

Apple's Daily Downloads retail iPad app and Apple Store rumors

May 20th 2011 3:12PM (TUAW.com)
I'll be going to an Apple store on Monday in the Seattle area. Not sure which one yet. The one at South Center (just south of Seattle city limits) is easily the biggest in this area.

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