I would concur with that as well. I do not sync all my music to my phone and for sure that is do to a lack of sufficient space. :) The only other advantage is if you had material that was 128Kb and if there was a match available from iTunes Match you could swap the 128Kb for 256. So, if you ripped your own stuff you would not benefit either.
On Oct 19, 2012, at 2:34 PM, "Damashe Thomas" <damashe.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I were in your position, I don't think I would have subscribed to iTunes > match. I chose to use it because I can't put all my music on my iPhone and > still have room for the many apps and podcasts that are stored there. It is > just an opinion, but the only advantage I think you would gain at this point > would be having an extra backup of sorts of all your music. There may be some > other reasons for you to subscribe, but I can't think of any at the moment. > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <siegh...@live.ca> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 1:23 PM > Subject: iTunes Match - To use it or not to use it, that is the question > > >> Hello List, >> >> I am normally among the first to adopt new technology and features, but I am >> still on the fence with respect to iTunes Match. I have approx. 280 CD's and >> a bit of other music which I mostly purchased from iTunes, a total of just >> under 3,800 songs. I ripped all my CD's using the FLAC lossless format and I >> keep these files on a network drive so I can access it with my Sonos system. >> I chose to use the lossless system because storage space is cheap and not an >> issue, my entire collection takes up about 100 Gig. I then used the batch >> conversion feature of DB Power Amp to convert everything from the lossless >> format to M4A at 256 Kbps and I have that in my iTunes Media Folder on my >> laptop for syncing to my iPhone. At 256 Kbps my lossless collection shrunk >> to about 23 or so Gb which easily fit on my 64 Gig iPhone 4S with lots of >> room to spare for apps, audio books and the occasional photos and videos. >> >> My question is whether I'd actually get anything out of using iTunes Match. >> If I do turn it on and my iTunes library is matched and what is not is >> uploaded, will I then manually have to download it to the phone again? I do >> like a local copy of everything on the phone because I can't stream if, for >> example, I am on a plane or on holidays in a country where maybe I don't >> have data and in any case, I use very little data hence have only a very >> small data plan. I assume I can download all my music again to my phone and >> maybe the one advantage I can see is that if I ever had to reset my phone or >> got a new phone my music would be downloaded from the cloud and I wouldn't >> have to connect to my laptop. Of course it takes a lot longer as well to >> download 25 Gig from the cloud than to sync it via iTunes. >> >> Maybe some of you iCloud experts can tell me if there are other reasons why >> I might want to use it or maybe you can just confirm that in my case there >> really is no benefit to using it since my phone is plenty big enough to hold >> my music collection and I sync the entire collection anyways. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
