# Burning CD's to the Cloud for iTunes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-cds-to-the-cloud-for-itunes/666155>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 13, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-cds-to-the-cloud-for-itunes/666155 "2013-08-13T20:16:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-cds-to-the-cloud-for-itunes/666155/1 "2013-08-13T20:16:30Z")

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I’ve got a lot of CD’s I’d like to burn to my iTunes library, but I don’t want to take up space on the hard drive of my computer.

Is there a way I can burn them to the cloud, and than access them for iTunes?

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**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-cds-to-the-cloud-for-itunes/666155/2 "2013-08-13T20:26:45Z")

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Nitpick: I believe you’re trying to ask about ‘ripping to the Cloud’. Ripping is the term for taking a physical disk and extracting digital data that can be stored elsewhere. Burning is the opposite process, writing files from your computer (or the cloud) onto a blank disk.

It looks to me as if the iTunes cloud doesn’t support ripped music, though you can sort-of simulate it if you pay extra for iTunes match.

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**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-cds-to-the-cloud-for-itunes/666155/3 "2013-08-13T20:27:45Z")

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Yes. It’s called iTunes in the Cloud, and it’s $30 a year. It analyses your iTunes library, and all the songs that it finds in its database are accessible to you on your computer and all your iOS devices.

ETA: Yes, iTunes Match is what you are looking for. Thank you, **chrisk**.