Re: Music

[Marcus Harris]

Hi Pete,
This made me very curious.
So I went to iTunes and selected Music >“Store”
There music is sold. For example, Neil Young “Home Grown “ album for $19.99.
Or one can also buy individual tunes for $2.99.
Are you convinced that buying these tunes/albums has no extra benefit than 
streaming from Apple Music.
I am going to try and stick some of my bought music onto a thumb drive tomorrow 
and see if it plays on another non Apple device.
Cheers  
Marcus

> On 29 Jun 2020, at 6:54 am, Pete  wrote:
> 
> Correct Stephen. If you 'buy' your music from Apple, you've actually only 
> bought the right to play it on an Apple device. You can't make a CD of it or 
> copy off to any other storage means. 
> 
> I'm sure it's in the fine print.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pete
> 
> On 28 Jun 2020, at 10:29 pm, Stephen Chape  > wrote:
> 
>> Hi Peter.
>> 
>> I am not certain about this but ….
>> I think if you bought the music from Apple, there are restrictions about 
>> copying it.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 28 Jun 2020, at 8:45 pm, Peter Curtis >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all
>>> Is there an alternative to ‘Music’ on the Mac? I know I’m a bit behind the 
>>> times but it appears I can’t access my music like to put a song on a usb 
>>> stick to take somewhere?
>>> Kind regards
>>> Peter
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>> Regards,
>> Stephen Chape
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Re: Music

[Peter Crisp]

Hi Marcus, it would be interesting to hear the outcome of your
experiment. Can you indicate if you are an Apple Music Subscriber or
not? This will make a difference. 
I thought what the heck I would do an experiment too. I went to
Music>Store and pressed Buy on the song "Love is a Rose" in that
Album. iTunes duly asked for my password (to enable billing for my
$2.19 purchase) and it duly downloaded into my external drive where my
iTunes library is held - but NOT in the APPLE MUSIC subfolder of my
library but rather an auto created new folder in my _Music _parent
folder called Volume Pete>Music>Neil Young>Homegrown>Mexico. I can see
the m4a file when doing the "Show in Finder" option. This file plays
in Quicktime Player - no issues - albeit on my MBP. 
I also went to the album in iTunes>Library (not Store) and did a
search in "All Apple Music" now and selected "Home Grown" and then
selected the Neil Young album. I selected the song Mexico and this
downloaded too, BUT it was placed in the "Apple Music" subfolder
beneath my _Music _top level folder and the file is called "03
Mexico.m4p". I think the "p" in the filename might infer protected. 
But the Mexico track will NOT play in Quicktime player (Using
Quicktime Player is a test as it does not utilise my Apple ID
credentials to confirm playability for protected files. It didn't
play. 
So, as I am a subscriber I am able to play the whole album without
buying anything so long as it is on one of my Apple devices. This
covers all my possibilities. I either download a song, Album, playlist
or any Music content to my device (if I am out of 4G range, it plays
fine). 
I checked in my Purchase History too following this and there is a
Pending transaction for $2.19 dated today for the song Love is a Rose.
If Apple's checking system is in order, it should not charge me - as I
pay already via subscription. But if I get billed the $2.19, I will
know for future. It will be useful to know.

Kind Regards

Peter Crisp

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Subject:Re: Music

 Hi Pete,This made me very curious.So I went to iTunes and selected
Music >“Store”There music is sold. For example, Neil Young “Home
Grown “ album for $19.99.Or one can also buy individual tunes for
$2.99.Are you convinced that buying these tunes/albums has no extra
benefit than streaming from Apple Music.I am going to try and stick
some of my bought music onto a thumb drive tomorrow and see if it
plays on another non Apple device.Cheers  Marcus

On 29 Jun 2020, at 6:54 am, Pete  wrote:
Correct Stephen. If you 'buy' your music from Apple, you've actually
only bought the right to play it on an Apple device. You can't make a
CD of it or copy off to any other storage means. 
I'm sure it's in the fine print.

Regards
Pete
On 28 Jun 2020, at 10:29 pm, Stephen Chape  wrote:

Hi Peter.
I am not certain about this but ….I think if you bought the music
from Apple, there are restrictions about copying it.

On 28 Jun 2020, at 8:45 pm, Peter Curtis  wrote:
Hi all
Is there an alternative to ‘Music’ on the Mac? I know I’m a bit
behind the times but it appears I can’t access my music like to put
a song on a usb stick to take somewhere?
Kind regards
Peter
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