I have a ton of music files in Dropbox. I'd like to add them to my iTunes library, using iCloud so they are not sitting on my hard drive on either my computer, iPhone or iPad. Does anyone know how to do this?
HP computer PC-OTHER, Windows 7, iTunes update to V.11
Winston, I AM subscribed to Match. However I can't find it!! Match doesn't appear in the menu bar up above all the list of songs when iTunes is open... Can you please advise me, how to find Match??
iTunes > Preferences > General > iCloud music library.
Winston, thank you......I will go there now and look for Match.
Winston!!! I found it (reference to Match) exactly where you said it was! And when I look in my "Music" also in "Recently Added" while in iTunes, the songs are there and the little cloud icon is also there, to the right of them! OMG!! Yesterday only a few of the songs showed up, and the little cloud icon was not a solid line, it was a dotted line. Yesterday when I clicked one of those songs it downloaded to my hard drive, not good. But this morning all is well. Wow!! It works!! You are the very first person to reply to my question with a direct and correct answer! THANK YOU!!!
One last question.. Since I have iCloud and iMatch is that why when in the file called iTunes Media my library doesn't show up? Because my library of music isn't on my hard drive, it's in iCloud??
THANK you so so much for your help!!
You should still have some iTunes files in your music folder.
In the Music folder, there is a folder with Sample music, and a iTunes folder. In the iTunes folder there are 7 folders. Album Artwork, iTunes Media, Previous iTunes Libraries, iTunes Library Extras, iTunes Library Genius, iTunes Library, (iTunes database file) and iTunes Music Library (an XML doc.).
But, someone told me once that in the iTunes Media file is where I should see my collection. Maybe they were wrong, the only things in the iTunes Media file are a few songs, mistakenly downloaded by me, to my hard drive. I can see my collection in each of the last three files, each song with the solid cloud icon beside it.
That sounds right to me. Only content that's been downloaded should be in your folder.
I Seriously want to thank you for your help. I've been all over the Internet, Apple.com, Dropbox support, and the answers I needed were not to be found. I thought about Match also, but couldn't find it, and it was right there all the time. Goes to show you when you are frantic, you overlook things, at least I do. And I thought things would happen instantly, but it takes time. I've got lots of music that I recently put into Dropbox to go onto the cloud, and I'm learning it takes time for those songs to show up, and then for the iCloud icon to turn solid. And finally thanks to you to realize that Match IS working. Thank you so so much for your help. I really appreciate it. .
copy music files from Dropbox to iCloud
