Managing your tunes across multiple devices

NasserAlazzawi You’re assuming that Apple doesn’t burn to the ground (see the fire at Universal for ref)… or get hacked, or fuck up, or just fuck you off. I don’t trust the platforms much. Having my own drives works for me at the moment.

NasserAlazzawi wanting a real flow

It’s such a killer when you can’t find the tracks that allow you to do this. Proper head banging against the wall stuff as you spend hours on Beatport looking for the ‘one’ right track that works on all levels.

It’s a fair point about Apple. It seems unlikely but is possible.

The cloud solution I mention let’s you keep your files on your machine and it just picks up when you add a new one and mirrors it up there.

So if google ever died it is still on my machine at least.

NasserAlazzawi Oh I get it, it’s just that when you have a few petabytes of music, they want you to pay for it every month, and they can do one!

I manage my tunes on separate devices.

Hope that helps.

Ed

It would be nice if Apple gave you back a HQ file that you uploaded.

I use Itunes Match and the way music syncs across devices / Macs is superb, unless you need to download the original HQ file on a Mac that doesn’t have the orig WAV/FLAC/HQ AIFF file. What Music does is just give you their version at 256 kps…….Does my head in.

That said i’m not playing out at Fabric any time soon, so do mixes/streams really suffer when using AIFF at 44.1 kHz/ 256kps? I suspect not so should just get over myself and suck it up! lol

IndustryStandard

I found out last year that the regularly streamed 256 AAC actually sounds slightly better in the mids and highs than 320kbps MP3 and the AAC format was developed by the same guys who made MP3.

It turns out that it’s not all about the number. I feel really sorry for Beatport Link who actually send out high quality streamed sounds and people are always grilling them for being 256.

There are countless articles about it, I just googled this one and to quote it:

“A rule of thumb is to use 320kbps MP3s and 256 AACs for professional use (highest bitrates). Or use the original WAV/AIFF uncompressed files.”

As for the lossless files, I genuinely can hear a slight difference in WAV/FLAC on a good sound system.

To me though, everyone has fun, loves the music, and it sounds great, when on a dance floor listening to a DJ playing MP3/AAC. That extra 2% shine doesn’t seem worth the storage costs at all. You can become very efficient with MP3/AAC files.

I do admire when someone has actually pulled that off and has thousands of tracks on those formats, mind.

I buy the odd tune on Bandcamp, but my mate luckily runs her own promo company and so you get to see what FK, Terry Farley, Optimo, Jimpster, Ashley Needle and Bill Brewster think of them The tracks are free and upfront. I could never sit there and go through Beatport anymore.

I know it’s lazy…..I organise monthly music/ideas into crates.

Mad_Cyril Mostly troughs. “Oh look a new Anjunadeep release!” “Is that a new Sound Avenue compilation album? Thats only the third one this month”

Mad_Cyril I’ll doff my cap to Matt & Damo as they really dig out the stuff that gets missed by most of us. I basically swpie their tunes

Hang on… are we saying that when you back up your music to the cloud with Apple, you can only then download a low rez version rather than the original??? Whut?

SM001 totally….. a sea of averageness.

Still think the best way to source tunes is via DJs you follow and their mixes, especially at cracking venue/cities where they have to up their game. I also quite like the thrill of sourcing tracklistings and when/how tracks are released. The odd free DL here and there. Edits. Ive even had luck approaching some DJs via Soundcloud to get track info. Makes things a bit more fun……old skool trainspotting !

IndustryStandard Ive even had luck approaching some DJs via Soundcloud to get track info.

Instagram too.

Just be glad you’re not buying vinyl. The amount of badly cut, badly pressed stuff that used to be about was crackers.