Getting my iTunes library into the cloud

Hi,
I have a large iTunes music library (about 280GB), much of it made up of rips from my CDs or transcriptions of LPs. Many of these items are not in the iTunes store. Is there some way to get my iTunes library into the cloud and have the cloud version be the iTunes target library on my MacBook Pro, my iPhone and iPad? What alternatives to iCloud are there that would work for this purpose?
Thanks!

You didn't read the link I posted did you?
"iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to iCloud for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 26 million songs in the iTunes Store, chances are your music is already in iCloud.3 And for the few songs that aren’t, iTunes uploads what it can’t match (which is much faster than uploading your entire music library)."

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6) When I tried to play the songs, there was a startup delay, as if the song was being streamed from the cloud and not being played locally.
7) When I tried to play the songs without a WiFi connection they would not play.
8) I had to painfully download all 3000 songs one by one to restore them to the original state.
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wildhearts37 wrote:
Hello,
I dumped my itunes library (25,000 songs) into the trash. It says I can not restore it, as I've tried. I then tried to just pull the music back into itunes from the trash, but I don't have enough room on my mac to copy them back. What can I do to get everything back into itunes?
Jeff
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In the the dialog that appears, click the "This Window Only" button & the "Calculate All Sizes" check box.
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Use Spotlight to make sure you got rid of everything. You can even trash directly from Spotlight! Better yet, download this FREE software called Find File. This app puts Spotlight to shame (works w/Mountain Lion).
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Edit>Resolve>Duplicates.
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Strip your computer down to your “native” tongue.
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Disk Inventory X (FREE)
WhatSize (SHAREWARE)
OmniDiskSweeper (FREE)
GrandPerspective (FREE - donation)
Mac Performance Guide
Slimming your hard drive
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i can't find a thread with a clear instruction on this on the forum either.
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Sofrina Hinton wrote:
okay, i found my problem. i had not changed the name of Itunes folder on the new comp so the transferred folder was called Itunes Music.
That was not the problem. Don't rename the iTunes music folder.
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The /Music/iTunes/ folder is the entire library.
You need to copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder from the old computer.

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How did you try to sync your music (and you are looking in the Music app on your phone, not the iTunes store app) ? You should be able to sync music by connecting your phone to your Mac and selecting it on the left-hand sidebar of your Mac's iTunes (on iTunes 11 you can enable the sidebar via option-command-S), and then on the right-hand side of the iTunes screen using the Music tab to select which of your music library to have in your iPhone's Music app.
Syncing media : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1351

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