John Channing
fruit box forever
Be warned, this does not sound good:
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
Whatever the case, Apple Music was never designed to delete Pinkstone's source library, and it won't delete yours. That's simply not how the service works on your primary Mac. But if you're not aware of how iCloud Music Library stores copies of tracks, you may delete your local copies to save space, thinking you can get them back — and get screwed as a result.
That's simply not how the service works on your primary Mac.
Oh this thread should be made a sticky as a warning to all those advocating "the cloud" and the benefits of streaming?
What else does "Remove Download" mean? It's pretty obvious to me (and quite a few others) that "Remove download" is going to... well... remove your download.
It goes to show that most people are best not trusted with managing large amounts of their own home stored content. I find it a chore and I am used backups and have Terabytes of my own sample libraries to manage... which just got farmed out to a offsite commercial cloud storage service. There are server farms that specialise in this stuff. I dont need to do that. Its much the same as Apple iTune Match. They have the servers, they have the resources.
What else does "Remove Download" mean? It's pretty obvious to me (and quite a few others) that "Remove download" is going to... well... remove your download. Its a space-saving measure. I suppose the dialog telling the user this could be more succinct.
Remove Download will send the local file from your hard drive to your Trash. It won't delete the file until you empty your Trash. The reference to the track is still in your library so you can stream that track directly from iCloud Music Library.
I'm not defending Apple, but I am sure not going to run to defend a person (incidentally, who had backups) and not knowing what "Remove download" means.
Storm in a teacup. In fact just a light drizzle rather than a storm.
"Remove Download" appears to be just plain wrong. "Remove Original" or "Remove Local Copy" would be more accurate.
Of course there is a worse possibility, that Apple had silently replaced the local file with a similar file downloaded from the Cloud and then offered to remove that one, in which case "Remove Download" is correct but only because they had already sabotaged the computer
The vitriol I see over this incident sort-of makes me glad I am not in that hoarding mindset.