Itunes back up to icloud

Can anyone help with this.
We want to ensure we don't lose our itunes music, apps, books etc.
We are a family but have 4 different apple id's.
Are we able to upload all the info for the 4 apple id's into the cloud using one subscription or do we have to purchase 4 different icloud subscriptions.
Also, does icloud back up the apps as well or just the music?
I am confused about this stuff, trying to look it up on itunes help.

backups do not save music and apps per this article: iOS: How to back up - Support - Apple
you may redownload them from the cloud to gain them back without paing for them again by this article: Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and ...

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Does my music from iTunes back up to iCloud? If not, what is the best way to back it up?

Does the music on my iPhone and iTunes back up to iCloud?
I tried to go to the cloud and see and it does not appear to be there.
I do use an online backup service and although that does save the items on my HD, it seems llike iCloud is supposed to as well.
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All your purchased music on iTunes can be downloaded from iCloud at any moment. Also, if you have iTunes 11 on your Mac or PC, you can listen to your purchased music without having it on the hard disk, because iTunes will download it from iCloud to listen to them.
If you want to upload all your songs to iCloud, you have to use iTunes Match, but I don't recommend it unless you run out of space on your computers and devices. Note that you can't use iCloud to back up your music

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iTunes: About iOS backups - Support - Apple
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HT1449 Now that i have my iTunes backed up on iCloud and iCloud Match running, can I delete the music files from my MacBook Pro? It is running out of hard drive space.

When I started this request in the Support section, I did not realize I was typing a subject into a header. Sorry.
My MacBook Pro is nearly full and I would like to rely on iCloud for my music with the hope of freeing up space by deleting the music files I have accumulated on this machine. Can I just delete the files in the iTunes folder or is there some special procedure?
Thanks in advance for your help on this.

When I started this request in the Support section, I did not realize I was typing a subject into a header. Sorry.
My MacBook Pro is nearly full and I would like to rely on iCloud for my music with the hope of freeing up space by deleting the music files I have accumulated on this machine. Can I just delete the files in the iTunes folder or is there some special procedure?
Thanks in advance for your help on this.

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I have a lot of music that I transferred to iTunes from friends CDs or CDs that I didn't want to take up space in my house. I'm thinking of getting a new macbook pro and I would like to know if all of this music will be lost if and when I do so? Online, apple support says that all PURCHASED items are recoverable. As these are not what will happen?
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You need to backup your iTunes library on your old computer and transfer it to the new computer. Songs not purchased via iTunes will not be recoverable.

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I had to get my computer cleaned off. I have itunes back now how do i get my phones items back on itunes? I was backed up on icloud

It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer for just such an occasion.
Use your backup copy to put everything back.

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2- itune back up : if i backup my iphone in a laptop thru itune to day using my apple ID, is it possible to back up again my iphone thru a different laptop using my apple ID at different date say after six months ..... ?

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How do I prevent files from being backed up to iCloud and iTunes?

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HT4910 my iPhone is not backing up to iCloud. On iTunes on the computer, i have set it to back-up to iCloud and after each connection to the computer it shows the last time it was backed up, but on the phone itself it shows it hasn't been backed up for we

My iphone is not backing up to icloud even though on itunes i have set it to back up to icloud. whenever i do a cable connection between my iphone and mac at the end of the exercise it indicates the last time the iphone was backed up i.e. "last back: 9.08a.m. but on the iphone itself it says it hasn't been backed up since March and on icloud there hasn't been any back up because the latest additions to the iphone are not there.
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If this is your first time backing up your phone then yeah it might take several hours. It's definitely something you want to do before you head to bed. So try that but also make sure that your contents that are to be backed up are less than 5GB since iCloud only has 5GB of space. Usually photos are what would take up the most space so check how many photos in terms of GB you have by going into settings->general->usage then look at photos and camera.
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Have iPhone 5 set to back up to iCloud but need both iTunes and iCloud done...

after going from 4s to iphone 5 and dragging and dropping like 15 playlists and about 4300 plus songs there must be a better way.
I backup complete itunes folder, exporting all playlists as xml files i am learning as i went from 3 to 3GS to 4 to 4s and now to a 32gb white 5. while i learned on the 4s to 5 that icloud only does store bought music of which i have a lot but most is my own music ripped from my cd's at AAC 320 VBR.
anyhow problem is i always did itunes manually never auto sync for at least 6-7 years as i did auto sync once on original ipod and learned never again after a wipeout.
so i keep icloud on (under icloud on iphone) and itunes also is checked back up to icloud on"summary page" of iphone when it's plugged into itunes 10.7. i did try changing the settings back and forth but
and hit back up every other day or so using icloud manually in phone. i did the turn one off and other on once or twice but based on time etc. it seemed like it had to start a complete backup tpicloud agoin but checking icloud via broweser (IE 9). but do use itunes daily and manually hit the sync button and rite click my iphone in left column and choose backup daily. I see the backup in preferences so assume it's doing its thing. I use 4 pop3 accounts including terrible icloud mail which is so spotty. it started as @me in july and in august my kids signed up and got @icloud addresses. i see i have them also in email settings under icloud allowing me to send or recieve from either.
none of that matters I just want to know if my dual backup scenario is actually working. apple says its one or the other from their own KB articles. BUT I THINK DIFFERENTLY JUST BY THE RESPONSE MANUALLY.
I see the space taken up by the current iCloud backup I do. I also see the current back up I do manually through iTunes so does any other user here know if this works? I see my "notes" and any changes made today so at least iCloud is picking it up...now how to find if iTunes is doing the same.

no one has doubled up on their backups so they don't lose earlier bought music or expensive audiobooks prior to iTunes 10.3?
or at the least none of the knowledgable people here are familair with doing this?
thank you I have huge library and don't want to manually redo it again for my own music. the store bought apps and music for the most part works from icloud but I defenitely want both options available to me.
thank you

Itunes back up to icloud

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