mccNeed to rip a CD so I can actually listen to it. Not actually sure how to do this in the year 2024. Find myself downloading… iTunes? For Windows 10?
FUCK i tried to download all the music i bought on itunes in 2007 and accidentally downloaded some fucking U2 album. There's no button to un-download it. Gonna have to submerge the hard drive in lye
I started moving away from Apple so long ago that I forgot you have to watch out for them trying to trick you into listening to U2
M… maybe… maybe I'll just leave that Cee-Lo Green album in the cloud :(
I believe I have now successfully exfiltrated all of my 2007 iTunes purchases to where I can listen to them. I am at 50% of my expected level of Kool Keith albums so I am trying to go on Amazon Music and see what I purchased there. Clicking through to music from the Amazon content menu, I find Amazon Music is now *only* a streaming service. They REFUSED to let me in unless I picked three artists I liked to feed Algorithm and then the albums weren't there anyway. (I picked Oval, Autechre, Boris.)
Amazon!! Amazon please!! I wish to Manage my Content and Devices!!
Downloaded the Amazon Music app for PC. This was deftly hidden, Amazon's own site links only a web player and if you click "Download App" it gives you a QR code. For your phone I guess. I had to go to the Windows Store.
Although Amazon's help pages claim the PC app can download purchases, I still show no purchased music. I think this is because every time I log in on the US store the app redirects me to Canada. Yes, I am in Canada right now. But I was in the US in 2007. When I bought the music?
Also it turns out all the iTunes tracks I downloaded were m4p. Which means they can't be used outside of iTunes. Which I don't use. At some point Apple switched to DRM-free, but all the instructions on how to switch your library to DRM-free no longer make sense (refer to webpages that no longer exist, etc) because Apple is trying to aggressively deprecate "owning things" in favor of some subscription service
Marcos Huerta@mcc when they debuted “iTunes plus” which was DRM free, they had an option to upgrade old songs for $.30 each. But it looks the upgrade option went away in 2012.
XaiaX ̆̈@marcoshuerta @mcc i think they just converted anything you had purchased into that, then. I never paid for upgrades and last I checked I get the DRM free higher bitrate versions of those tracks.
On a mac IIRC anything you purchased can be downloaded to local storage and then you just go to the folder on the local disk and copy the files from there.
Stuff that you only have access to via subscription is stored separately.