Hi again Pete and Stephen, Here’s what I found following my earlier comments.
The music I paid for on the Apple Store in iTunes is shown as “purchased” in the list I selected a couple of songs from the list and copied to a thumb drive. Then I placed that TD in my Panasonic TV and searched for it. I Opened it up and lo and behold the tunes are there and played without any issues. Therefore one can safely say that if you buy music from the store —That $2.99 tune is yours to capture and play on another device. However, I am not sure if a dedicated Apple user would want to do buy music when one can get an Apple Music subscription and play from the ?millions of tunes in the cloud! I personally still buy but on a very selective basis as Yes I have the Apple Music subscription. Some classic albums I just want to own. It’s been an interesting conversation so thanks for making me check out if Apple did gazumpt me. They hadn’t. Cheers Marcus > On 30 Jun 2020, at 6:04 pm, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > 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 >> <mailto: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 <mailto:wamug@wamug.org.au> >> To: >> "WAMUG Mailing List" <wamug@wamug.org.au <mailto: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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