In the spring of 2014, I got the Apple TimeCapsule network attached storage and began to re-burn all my CDs into FLAC and was pleased to find it fit all my music with room to spare. So, if I ever lost my data and used iCloud to re-download all my songs, they would have been compressed copies!Ībout this same time, disk storage began to become even less expensive for more gigabytes. If I uploaded a file that was larger than a certain resolution, they would compress it. Second, I found out something that their more tech-savvy customers probably had already known. First, they began to charge higher rates for iCloud storage. So far, so good, right? I stopped buying CDs and almost exclusively downloaded albums from iTunes, kept on a Mac, transferred to an iPod (or by this time iPhone) and was using iCloud storage, the perfect little Apple customer.Īround 2013, I began to have issues with Apple and iTunes for two reasons. I was even relatively happy when Apple started offering iCloud storage, primarily because when loading 1400 CDs onto a hard drive, two copies is one and one is none. Hard drives on iPods kept getting bigger, to the point where I could almost store all my music in compressed proprietary Apple Audio Coding (AAC) format. I began taking all the CDs I had and loaded them onto my hard drive and began my sometimes-rocky relationship with iTunes. The iPod solved two of those issues, with a larger storage capacity and a pretty darn good user interface with iTunes. I had a portable mp3 player prior to the iPod, but the download interface was cumbersome, it didn’t hold much music (even in mp3), and it was obvious that the compressed mp3 format was nowhere near the sound quality of a Redbook CD. When I first got an iPod in maybe 2003, it was a revelation. Let me describe my own experiences with iTunes and what cultural, financial and musical factors influenced me in my decision to take more direct control of my musical library. Still it’s worth reviewing the milestones along the way to its decline and fall. Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsApp
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