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Old 07-20-2019, 07:30 PM
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So I have 8 hours of music on an old iPod. Now that Apple is closing down iTunes I am not able to do anything with my music. I spent the evening trying to find a way to save it in case my iPod dies? My laptop is to old for updates from iTunes so it no longer recognizes my iPod.

So all that said - where does a person buy music to save and where does one store it? My iPhone will not recognize my music library so I cannot save it on my phone. This is a whack of music going out the window

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Old 07-20-2019, 07:39 PM
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So I have 8 hours of music on an old iPod. Now that Apple is closing down iTunes I am not able to do anything with my music. I spent the evening trying to find a way to save it in case my iPod dies? My laptop is to old for updates from iTunes so it no longer recognizes my iPod.

So all that said - where does a person buy music to save and where does one store it? My iPhone will not recognize my music library so I cannot save it on my phone. This is a whack of music going out the window

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I wasn't aware of this Is there any chance you could back up to i-Cloud??
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Old 07-20-2019, 07:40 PM
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Back up to hard drive or iCloud would be the easiest. iTunes will still exist just no support or new content is what they say
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Old 07-20-2019, 07:45 PM
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I have an old iPod that is loaded with songs that I downloaded from the internet using something called “torrents”. I can’t remember how I did it or if it even still exists. Maybe worth checking out?
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Old 07-20-2019, 07:46 PM
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You wont lose anything. Its all going to Apple Music.

Now if your computer cant be upgraded to Catalina, which is the OS for Apple Music and the demise of iTunes, you will have no access to iTunes.

It’s how Steve Jobs humps you from the grave

Burn your music to CD or an external hd to protect it, but remember its still in Apple Music. It will be there. Everything you paid for.
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Old 07-20-2019, 09:28 PM
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Man I'm glad I got out of apple years ago.
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Old 07-20-2019, 11:39 PM
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https://www.mediamonkey.com/
you may or may not have to break the DRM on it to make it work goggle will help with that.
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Old 07-21-2019, 06:38 AM
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I listen to the radio and 10 year old CD's.... haha... sorry. No help here.
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Old 07-21-2019, 07:18 AM
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I listen to the radio and 10 year old CD's.... haha... sorry. No help here.
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I listen to the radio and still buy CDs. All my photos are stored on hard drives vs the cloud.
It may be more expensive but no way am I going to be held hostage by some company that holds you hostage when they decide it’s time to upgrade.
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Old 07-21-2019, 09:57 AM
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Man I'm glad I got out of apple years ago.
Amen, brother... Proprietary garbage !

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Old 07-21-2019, 03:21 PM
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It looks like I will save it to an external hard drive. Problem is when my iPod goes down for good how will I be able to play my music in the truck?

Funny how I do feel like old Steve just bent me over from the grave.

What’s the future to play your favourite music? Some artists have a dozen good songs to a 100 crap songs? Sure don’t want to listen through the trash to catch the odd good tune

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Old 07-21-2019, 07:26 PM
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Old 07-22-2019, 06:25 AM
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Just a new thought. Not sure what you drive... but my truck has a hard drive. I have over 100 songs loaded on it.... If I don't like what's on the radio I just switch to HDD and they are all just there at a touch of the screen
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Old 07-22-2019, 09:46 AM
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I listen to the radio and 10 year old CD's.... haha... sorry. No help here.
Me too. But most of my CD's are older and from the 80's. I have some music on an old mp3 player.
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Old 07-22-2019, 09:57 AM
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I store about 6000 tunes on memory sticks. They seem to be about the best method I have found.
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Old 07-22-2019, 10:51 AM
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Cant remember exactly how I did it but you can connect your ipad/ ipod to your computer as a media drive. You can then import the songs to media player. You get some message that says it needs to convert the file type (I think it was MP4 files to WAV). Allowing this copied your songs but you had to rename them all as Itunes saved them to your device under weird names like 4 or 5 random letters. This also removed to copy protection.
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Old 07-22-2019, 10:57 AM
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spotify or google play is where its at now a days . I personally use spotify no need to buy the music just a monthly 10 dollar subscription . its also great for podcasts.
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Old 07-22-2019, 11:02 AM
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Yep.. Went thru this a couple years ago, pain in the ass to get them off itunes.
Now it's all spotify. Much easier.
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Old 07-22-2019, 04:59 PM
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Looked at Spotify and this is fine as I can stream music in my truck but I would have to type in music I want. The iPod has only the exact songs I like best from various artists.

I might try the idea from ghostguy6 and import to my iPad. I would then be able to stream by Bluetooth in the truck.

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Old 07-22-2019, 06:31 PM
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Looked at Spotify and this is fine as I can stream music in my truck but I would have to type in music I want. The iPod has only the exact songs I like best from various artists.

I might try the idea from ghostguy6 and import to my iPad. I would then be able to stream by Bluetooth in the truck.

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With a premium account, you can make playlists that are able to be played offline.

https://support.spotify.com/us/using...isten-offline/

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Soc...E/td-p/1144368
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Old 07-22-2019, 06:40 PM
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Apple is getting rid of iTunes??? HUH glad I am not on that..
SPOTIFY,, Can find almost every song you want ( pain when you can't though)
But you can easily search atists or songs, make playlists, they will create daily radio channels for you according to what you listen to.
Will suggest artists according to the music you like, which is great as can find ones you didn't even know were out there.
Great service.
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Old 07-22-2019, 07:36 PM
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Thanks tbiddy and Rig-Rat. Looks like I’m heading in this direction.

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Old 07-22-2019, 10:01 PM
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Me too. But most of my CD's are older and from the 80's. I have some music on an old mp3 player.
If you have CD’s from the 80’s you must be a time traveller and perhaps performing a “Quantum Leap”?
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Old 07-22-2019, 10:27 PM
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If you have CD’s from the 80’s you must be a time traveller and perhaps performing a “Quantum Leap”?
Some of my 1st CD’s were purchased in the 80’s. Long gone now and totally digital at our house. Pulled out the CD collection to play in my old truck and realized how inconvenient they were. Used to a have a collection well over 500 CD’s when I was a DJ. Now all that music is stored on a little iPod.
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Old 07-22-2019, 10:47 PM
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I don't have an I PAD. Or I pod. Bought one single CD last year.... because he was so good I wanted to support him. Came as a package with a shirt and stickers, for $70
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Old 07-22-2019, 11:16 PM
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If you have CD’s from the 80’s you must be a time traveller and perhaps performing a “Quantum Leap”?
Why's that? CD's were around in the early 80's
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Old 07-22-2019, 11:24 PM
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Thanks tbiddy and Rig-Rat. Looks like I’m heading in this direction.

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You will love it, just watch out some of them suggestions on artists and sings will send you down a rabbit hole and will keep you bumping around for hours haha. Maybe that's just me but I am a big music lover.
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