Thank you Peter. It seems that for me the simplest way to get songs is by downloading to my iPhone. Then it automatically syncs to Music on my iMac.
Thank you for your advice !! > On 29 Jun 2020, at 4:46 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > 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 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > wamug@wamug.org.au > > To: > "WAMUG Mailing List" <wamug@wamug.org.au> > Cc: > > Sent: > Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:53:06 +0800 > 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 <petercr...@westnet.com.au > <mailto:petercr...@westnet.com.au>> 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 <chap...@bigpond.com > <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> 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 <pe...@augold.com.au > <mailto:pe...@augold.com.au>> 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 > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > > Regards, > Stephen Chape > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > > Marcus > Marcus Harris > P.O. 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