Apple’s iCloud to swap substandard songs with higher-quality music

AppleApple is yet to confirm its long-rumored cloud music service, dubbed iCloud, but tech experts are busy in speculating the capabilities of the Cupertino, California-based company’s potential service.

According to a report from Businessweek, Apple's potential iCloud music service will be capable of scanning a user's iTunes library and mirror it in the cloud.

The report also claims that Apple’s rumored service will be capable of telling if an individual song is of substandard and it would replace the substandard file with a track of higher quality.

The features are very similar to the abilities of cloud music company Lala, which was acquired by Apple in 2009.

Experts are also of the view that Apple’s potential cloud music service will not be free. According to authors Brad Stone and Andy Fixmer, the rumored service may be a huge shift, but it will not be free.

Apple’s iCloud is expected to steal the show from Amazon’s and Google’s respective cloud music lockers that have been unveiled recently. Google’s service copies a user's library physically and places it in the cloud. This approach consumes hours to copy huge amount of music. Moreover, Google’s service does not offer the opportunity to swap low quality songs with higher-quality versions.