iTunes in Cloud Is About Simultaneous Listen and Download

Posted by iunlock under News on Wednesday Sep 21, 2011

When Apple finally released the iTunes Match beta, many developers unraveled that iTunes in Cloud can also support musicstreaming for gadgets like iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone. The entire world of blogging got pretty excited with this news since it was perceived before that iTunes in iCloud is only downloadable. But it seems we went wrong when we said it supports music streaming.

The confirmation was received by an official spokesperson of Apple who informed that songs can only be downloaded on local setting for the iOS device or the computer for you to be able to listen to them. Apple explained that instead of the streaming term, what they meant is that it can support simultaneous listening and downloading.

To better understand this matter, you may want to check out the video walkthrough of the iTunes Match made by InsanelyMac. It shows how you can download and stream the song on your computer or iOS device. When you select a certain song, it does not get downloaded to the library but instead is redirected to the temporary cache of your device.

Apple may have set it in this manner for design reasons more than its possible legal issues since it has already acquired formal streaming rights. This is according to a music label who confirmed the acquisition of Apple for the streaming rights. This may also be because Apple does not trust several carriers to render a flawless streaming experience to users and that a simultaneous style of listening and downloading can be a much better option.

However, this can also raise some contradictions. If the songs still need to be downloaded, then this still require participation of the carriers. Also other music streaming services and applications just like Spotify also cache the songs it plays. So what could be the difference in the implementation of Apple?

Some experts believe that this is Apple’s way of revolutionizing the concept of music streaming. We are just wondering why Apple did not want to explain it this way. What do you think? Are they up to something new again when it comes to this feature?

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Just when the development team of iPhone has released the Redsnow 0.9.8b1, here comes also the release of the Snowbreeze 2.8b1. These are meant specifically for Mac to help in jailbreaking the iOS 5 for iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod Touch. It is perfect to be used by the developers who will jailbreak applications and tweak some of them too. Such would allow them to test their software eagerly on an iOS 5 beta.

All the details were featured by their own blog post. It says that with Apple providing already for Windows iTunes 10.5 along with the iCloud developers, it is no longer deemed that the legitimacy of activating their devices to such applications will be limited to the Mac users alone. Now, there is even a Windows version of the RedSnow for those developers which aim to carry out this purpose.

Snowbreeze 2.8 beta was also released for Windows that has an iOS 5.0b1. It is considered to be the Pwnage tool for Windows. It would permit some users to come up with customized iOS 5 beta 1 firmware file that is not yet jailbroken. This can be used to help in upgrading their gadgets like the iPhone, iPad, and even the iPod Touch to the iOS 5 beta 1.

It is important for you to remember backing up your iOS device first before you even proceed to the actual jailbreaking method. When you do the process, you have to connect your device to your computer for each reboot.

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