Comments for Phil's blog http://phil-leung.com Mobile devices, collaboration, travel, food Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:41:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on iTunes Match on iOS is not for me by Phil http://phil-leung.com/2012/01/04/itunes-match-on-ios-is-not-for-me/#comment-18 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:41:53 +0000 http://phil-leung.com/?p=125#comment-18 Thanks!

Yeah I guess iOS just wasn’t meant to be able to handle a library that large on the device, even if only 15% is physically there?

]]> Comment on iTunes Match on iOS is not for me by Cameron Watson (@snarkle) http://phil-leung.com/2012/01/04/itunes-match-on-ios-is-not-for-me/#comment-17 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:09:59 +0000 http://phil-leung.com/?p=125#comment-17 I have a 200gb library and just over 23,000 tracks, so I was interested to see how it would go when I synced to my iPhone. I only have about 15% of my songs on my phone, so when I enabled it, I was interested to see what would happen. I also don’t downgrade my music to 128, I leave it at its original quality.

It took AGES to process the update, but it didn’t delete any of the existing songs. Now I see the original songs that were synced over wifi to the phone without a cloud icon, and the ones that are missing with a download icon.

The main thing that i’ve noticed is that my entire 23,000 track library is available, it’s VERY slow just to open the music app and browse for music. The list is very long, but clicking between artists & album takes ages and is the main problem. In regards to downloading songs, I also noticed the same thing. It’s far too slow to download over 3G. I’d have to set it to download then be able to listen to it 5-10 minutes later.

I’ve disabled the “show all songs” option for now, which has sped it back up again. I figure if I want to listen to something again, I can reenable it. I still prefer to sync the smart playlists I have. I think where it would be most useful is on an iPad or an Apple TV. If I want to listen to a song on demand, I can use my Spotify account or look it up on Youtube as it’s faster & more convenient.

Good post dude. :)

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