Finally cancelling iTunes Match. Created playlists in Music.app to find and download every track with cloud status “matched” or “uploaded” to my Mac. In the process, found a gold mine of old audio recordings off my MiniDisc, circa 2004-2006.

@manton I wish Apple Music could access files in iCloud. I have over 200GB of music files, and I don't fancy putting them all on my local hard drive.

@amerpie That would be cool. It does seem a missed opportunity to better unify Apple Music and the old iTunes / MP3 files world.

@manton funny, I did the same. I had hundreds of CDs back in the day, many of the Hawaiian music still isn't on their servers.

@manton I was browsing my Day One a couple of days ago and found this. But I don’t remember when I canceled it—probably when I subscribed to Spotify a couple of years later.

I still have my library intact on my iPod Classic, with many albums Apple still doesn’t have in its catalog.

@numericcitizen exactly! It feels weird just to read “iTunes.”

@amerpie @manton I use ITunes Match so YMMV, but I think you can download them, add them to iTunes, wait for iTunes to upload them, then delete the local copy in iTunes, and from then on you can stream them. It’s a pain (depending on your connection) but it works.

@manton the music I listen to the most is region locked to a different country than the one I live in, so I don’t think I will ever be able to switch from iTunes Match. I have an album that I bought on iTunes in that region and it gives me trouble all the time because iTunes gets confused whether I have access to it or not. I regret not buying it on cd then ripping it and tossing or giving away the cd (I have no space in my life for CDs).

@numericcitizen I listen to my library streamed via iTunes Match while commuting every day. Occasionally I stream music I don't own via Apple Music, but in lieu of a device with enough storage to hold my whole library, iTunes Match works for me.

@hjalm cool! 👍🏻