Daily Itunes Match logout/login to access Cloud Music
Hope someone can help....I have Itunes Match and use it on my home computer and my work laptop. Everyday I shut down my work laptop and take it home. Itunes Match is enabled and my content shows up on what is available in the cloud on my laptop in itunes. The next time I turn on my laptop computer and open itunes, the Cloud content shows up but is grayed out, and if I try to play a song, nothing happens. The only thing I can do is log out of my Apple ID in itunes, login again, and then turn on itunes match and authorize my computer. Then the content reappears and can be played.
I have to do this everyday. Anyone else have this problem or know a solution? Thanks for anyone's help.
right, i think i get it now, the below article had confused me:
Now that I’ve uploaded and matched everything, I want to trust in the cloud. Can I delete everything off my computer and just use my stored Match collection from iCloud?
Sure. Apple doesn’t require you to have a local copy of your files, so you can theoretically match and upload everything to the cloud, then delete all those files from your computer. We will say, however, that while it’s likely that the iTunes Match servers are ironclad, and there’s little risk of losing your data, flying without any backup is never something we recommend. (If you want to save space on your main computer, you should make a copy of your iTunes Media folder and stick it on an external drive, at the very least.)
seems to imply you can...
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