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How is iCloud supposed to work with iTunes?

vette21man

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Good news that we can store and access files through the cloud, but I do wish we can stream music directly through iCloud in the future...
You can indeed stream from iCloud. To quote Apple's website: http://www.apple.com/itunes/whats-new/

"Once your music is in iCloud, you can stream and store it to any of your devices."

I also saw a CNET video explaining you can stream it. It buffers and is cached on your phone, but only temporarily.

http://cnettv.cnet.com/sneak-peek-itunes-match-beta/9742-1_53-50110878.html
 
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Maher Essi

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Scan and match means it will scan your collection and see what songs you have and matches it in the iCloud storage. iCloud is free, but there is a $24.99 charge for a certain service (not sure what it is) but you can find out on the Apple website, go to iCloud.
 

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Here are a couple of articles - the first from Apple's own website...

Apple - iCloud stores your content and pushes it to your devices.
iTunes in the Cloud
Download your music whenever and wherever you want it.

New purchases. Automatically everywhere.
iCloud automatically downloads any new music purchase to all your devices over Wi-Fi ? or over 3G if you choose. Which means you can buy a song from iTunes on your iPad at home, and find it waiting for you on your iPhone during your morning commute. All without having to sync.

Your past purchases. Available on all your devices.
Now you can download music and TV shows you?ve previously purchased to all your devices. When you buy from iTunes, iCloud stores your purchase history. So you can see what you?ve bought ? no matter which device you bought it on. You can access your purchase history from the iTunes Store on your Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. And since you already own the songs, albums, or TV shows in your purchase history, you can tap to download them to any of your devices.


Apple's iCloud Similar To Google's, Amazon's - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD



That's what all the commotion was about when it was announced... that there would be NO music streaming...

I agree nice find! I wonder how great cloud is going to work on the 4S! :D
 

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