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" 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 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 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe - Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe - -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Settings & Unsubscribe - Marcus Marcus Harris P.O. Box 7135 Shenton Park Western Australia 6008 Australia Cryptodome Pty Ltd cryptodo...@me.com [13] Mob: +61 (0) 417965618 Links: ------ [1] mailto:petercr...@westnet.com.au [2] mailto:chap...@bigpond.com [3] mailto:pe...@augold.com.au [4] http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml [5] http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml [6] http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug [7] http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml [8] http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml [9] http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug [10] http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml [11] http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml [12] http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug [13] mailto:cryptodo...@me.com
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