Will Carroll's Rndm Crap: iConfused

willcarroll:

I’m as excited as the next Apple geek about iCloud. What I’m not so sure about is how it will actually work. I’m not talking about the magic that happens in the big data center or the functions of syncing things through the air, but rather how things actually integrate onto the devices.

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I’m not so sure the idea is that it will save you space at home so much as make access to a vast library (my personal media library is close to 700 GB FWIW) remotely easier. I also rarely want to dig through my Mac Mini (which serves the same role your iMac does it sounds) and the respective 1.5 and 2 TB hard drives I have connected to it to find what I’m looking for (and I hate having potentially broken iTunes library file references on any of my systems). This will allow me, particularly on the go on public transportation, in a plane, or in a hotel, to pull up and stream from a vast collection of music onto either my iPhone or iPad (which I too don’t know that I’ve ever put more than a song or two onto). Again, if you’re not a quality snob (I’m not sure I by design have anything less than 192 kbps CBR in storage, though I do encode to 128 VBR on the fly to the iPhone as I only have a 16 GB model), perhaps this can supplant your digital library. But more likely, it will merely complement and save you all the hassle from transferring back and forth constantly.