{"id":6522,"date":"2012-11-09T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T21:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2012-11-09T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T21:38:37","slug":"itunes-match-at-years-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/itunes-match-at-years-end\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Match at Year&rsquo;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/2012\/11\/08\/warning-to-itunes-match-users-if-you-dont-plan-to-renew-download-all-your-music-now\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/2012\/11\/08\/warning-to-itunes-match-users-if-you-dont-plan-to-renew-download-all-your-music-now\/\"><p>So, if you&rsquo;ve decided to throw in the towel on iTunes Match, you had better prepare. If you don&rsquo;t have local copies of all your music, start downloading it now. Because if you don&rsquo;t, when iTunes Match turns off for you, you won&rsquo;t have access to any of that music, and you can&rsquo;t get it back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the advent of <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/amazon-glacier\/\">Amazon Glacier<\/a>, the pricing equation has changed. iTunes Match is $25\/year. Storing my 88 GB iTunes library in Glacier for a year (e.g. using <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/arq-3-0\/\">Arq 3<\/a>) would cost roughly $11. Of course, iTunes Match offers other features beyond backup.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk McElhearn: So, if you&rsquo;ve decided to throw in the towel on iTunes Match, you had better prepare. If you don&rsquo;t have local copies of all your music, start downloading it now. Because if you don&rsquo;t, when iTunes Match turns off for you, you won&rsquo;t have access to any of that music, and you can&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,203,204,30,32],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-glacier","tag-arq","tag-itunesmatch","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6523,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}