In our-- by which I mean my-- previous post, I mentioned that the Cloud was doing me no favors as regards enjoyment of my iTunes library. I bought into Apple's promise of "20,000 songs in your pocket," and I've been digitizing stuff for 8 years to realize that dream.

I have about 17,000 songs in iTunes now (and that's misleading; many of them are an hour or more, because I ripped a bunch of live CD-long concert performances as a single song.)

I've bought fewer than 500 of these songs from Apple.

Apple provides 5 gigs of iCloud storage. You can buy more.

I've got about 16,500 songs-- about 120 gigs-- that isn't purchased from iTunes, and for which I'd thus need to purchase space to accommodate. Apple sells incremental storage space-- really, rents it-- at the rate of $2 a gig. To access my entire iTunes library through iCloud, then, would cost me $240. A year.

Really Apple? Really?

Thanks, no thanks.

Labels: Apple, iPod, ipod classic, the cloud