Comments on: The Nightmare of Maintaining Your Music Library [Opinion]

By: Tyson Conrad

Tyson Conrad — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:40:00 +0000

You don’t understand digital formats do you.

By: Tyson Conrad

Tyson Conrad — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:39:00 +0000

In iTunes, you can covert an old DRM-laden song to an mp3 version or to another AAC version, either way they will be DRM-free. Or you could move folder of songs and redownload all purchases, DRM-free. Either way is really easy and costs nothing.

By: Thanassi Karageorgiou

Thanassi Karageorgiou — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:05:00 +0000

If I had to quantify it, I would say about a month’s time (total. as in 24 hrs x 30 days) And then again when disaster struck. Now i keep 3 redundant drives, my 160GB Ipod and Google Music updated.

By: Ron Offringa

Ron Offringa — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Indeed they are I imagine people who listen to emo music are especially sensitive. How long did it take you just to get everything into iTunes?

By: Thanassi Karageorgiou

Thanassi Karageorgiou — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Haha. just poking fun at you dude. People are sensitive about their music tastes

By: Ron Offringa

Ron Offringa — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:59:00 +0000

I used iTunes Match to get rid of the DRM on the songs I purchased before 2009 so that they would play on non-Apple devices. There are other ways, but that’s the way I chose to do it.

By: Ron Offringa

Ron Offringa — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:57:00 +0000

I was with you until the emo quip.

By: gk08

gk08 — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:51:00 +0000

Does anyone know of any easy way to convert itunes DRM music to portable mp3/ogg files? I have a couple of thousand songs on itunes that I would desperately like to use on other devices. The only method I have heard of is to burn these to cds which seems way too time consuming.

By: Sangro Azul

Sangro Azul — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Thank u for the info. Will definitely check it out!!

By: Jonathon Michael DuRoss

Jonathon Michael DuRoss — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:57:00 +0000

thanks!!

By: Fattie McDoogles

Fattie McDoogles — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:53:00 +0000

You own your music in iTunes too… It doesn’t offer a streaming service outside of playing your own music.

By: Fattie McDoogles

Fattie McDoogles — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:48:00 +0000

The problem with that is the artist and labels aren’t getting paid as much because of apps like that. Which is part of the problem for licensing with Rdio and Spotify.

By: The Race To Die

The Race To Die — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:09:00 +0000

exactly what i do. my collection is too big for google music.

By: The Race To Die

The Race To Die — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:06:00 +0000

still use soulseek to this day. its far from dead. between that and it-leaked im all set.

By: MyStroPro

MyStroPro — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:43:00 +0000

Yea – It worked for me on all this crap I accidentally purchase during the DRM years. Long as it is an authorized computer, I can’t see why it doesn’t work.