iTunes Match on two computers

[frenetic]

Hi all,

I have a question regarding iTunes Match. Suppose I have two computers, one iMac and one Macbook Air, with my main library music on the iMac. I keep no music on the Macbook Air, streaming it all from the cloud through an iTunes Match subscription.

Now, what happens when I add music to the Macbook Air library from a non-apple source, e.g. from emusic? If I understand it correctly, it will be physically added to the Macbook Air library, but also to the cloud, no? And hence I can always play that newly added music on the iMac through streaming or perhaps even downloading. And hence I will no longer have on consolidated library that contains all of my songs but the cloud would be my consolidated library?

Frenetic

 

[D.C.M.]

"If I understand it correctly, it will be physically added to the Macbook Air library, but also to the cloud, no?"

Yes


"And hence I can always play that newly added music on the iMac through streaming or perhaps even downloading."

Yes

"And hence I will no longer have on consolidated library that contains all of my songs but the cloud would be my consolidated library?"

Yes

 

[frenetic]

Thank you for the reply. I don't know how comfortable I am with having my music library spread across devices but maybe I just need to change my thinking about that.

 

[D.C.M.]

Thank you for the reply. I don't know how comfortable I am with having my music library spread across devices but maybe I just need to change my thinking about that.

Yeah, I guess you have to re-change thinking because you do not spread your library across multiple devices -> your entire library will be on all of your devices. The only difference between your devices will be the songs that you have downloaded and temporarily stored on your devices.

 

[frenetic]

I agree with you that's the case in Europe where there is plenty of propper broadband. But I spend a lot of my time in places with flakey internet connections, and hence I don't want to trust the cloud too much

 

[D.C.M.]

I agree with you that's the case in Europe where there is plenty of propper broadband. But I spend a lot of my time in places with flakey internet connections, and hence I don't want to trust the cloud too much

You are probably right. Europe's 3G networks are quite good and almost everywhere available. I can not speak for the US but I have heard a lot.