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Dgllama

Q: How to differentiate between Cloud, cached and downloaded songs?

Hello,

When a song is streamed from iTunes Match on iOS it gets downloaded and cached and is not downloaded the next time the song is played - great!

The issue I have is that the download button is still shown next to the song and if pressed the song is downloaded from scratch again.

I would like to differentiate between songs:

A. Not local, only in the Cloud

B. Local, cached

C. Local, downloaded

 

Originally I was under the impression 2 and 3 is the same, but after several tests I realised cached and downloaded is different, but why?

Question 1: Is it required to differentiate between cached and downloaded songs?

 

Question 2: If cached and downloaded songs are handled differently in the backend, can the icon be changed to differentiate between cached and downloaded songs?

 

Thank you,

 

Douw

iOS 8.1.1

Posted on Dec 9, 2014 3:45 PM