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Ok I have some q's about this...
I'm thinking of signing up for this now, but I want to know if I can do this first before wasting money:
Nerdery below:
1] Does the computer I do the scanning with have to be registered with the Apple in iTunes, and does all of the music where it was scanned go away if the computer is de-registered?
Right now I am homeless and living with friends since my house is being built, but I want to get to all of my music which is backed up in the cloud and don't have no where near the bandwith on this shitty 5Mbit wireless connection at my friends to download my 400GB of music.
All of my music is backed up to Crashplans servers in the cloud. So I was going to launch a Windows instance in EC2, download all of my music from Crashplan to the EC2 instance in the cloud (since iTunes cloud service is actually using S3 anyway, they are both on fat pipes) this should be relatively quick and cheap to do, and then use the ec2 windows instance to scan my library.
Once that is done I'll have all of my music show up in my itunes on my laptops here and iphone and ipad and voila.
But I only want to use this ec2 instance to scan my library and then it is going to be terminated, so how does Apple keep my music associated with my account? If you scan it once does it stay with you forever or until the next year when you have to rescan? Thats what I don't understand. Do I have to keep the ec2 instance registered as one of my 10 iTunes Match devices forever?
I'm thinking of signing up for this now, but I want to know if I can do this first before wasting money:
Nerdery below:
1] Does the computer I do the scanning with have to be registered with the Apple in iTunes, and does all of the music where it was scanned go away if the computer is de-registered?
Right now I am homeless and living with friends since my house is being built, but I want to get to all of my music which is backed up in the cloud and don't have no where near the bandwith on this shitty 5Mbit wireless connection at my friends to download my 400GB of music.
All of my music is backed up to Crashplans servers in the cloud. So I was going to launch a Windows instance in EC2, download all of my music from Crashplan to the EC2 instance in the cloud (since iTunes cloud service is actually using S3 anyway, they are both on fat pipes) this should be relatively quick and cheap to do, and then use the ec2 windows instance to scan my library.
Once that is done I'll have all of my music show up in my itunes on my laptops here and iphone and ipad and voila.
But I only want to use this ec2 instance to scan my library and then it is going to be terminated, so how does Apple keep my music associated with my account? If you scan it once does it stay with you forever or until the next year when you have to rescan? Thats what I don't understand. Do I have to keep the ec2 instance registered as one of my 10 iTunes Match devices forever?
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