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
UPDATE: Wait, the U2 album Apple tricked me into downloading *is* DRM-free. So I could put that on the plex if that was something I wanted. I guess.
I was a fool to believe a company from the "world's ten largest companies" list would allow me to access a product I paid for
Alright so here's the least useful advice you're gonna get today. It is possible to "sync" an Amazon Music USA to an Amazon Music Canada account (and one assumes other combinations of countries as well). The way to do this is to speak to a human customer service representative¹ and request it. Then it takes 48 hours. I'll let you know in 48 hours if it worked or not.
¹ In order to speak to a human Amazon representative, you must: Solve the nefarious labyrinth of Dr. B
Update: You don't have to reply to me feeling sad because you like U2 and I'm complaining about U2!! I don't mind U2!! I'm listening to U2 right now!!!
nini@mcc whoa
(i gotta listen to more U2! i only know Joshua Tree and the song Sunday Bloody Sunday)
@filenine i find about 1/3 of U2's music great and the other 2/3 kinda annoys me.
The songs by them I like are "New Years Day" and "Mysterious ways", and the tracks from the "Pop" era (from which the Sinead O Connor collaboration comes, they did some soundtracks).
@mcc ...oh huh they had an album literally called "Pop". wild
New Year's Day is on the album War alongside Sunday Bloody Sunday, so i'll check it out! thanks
(and i suppose Achtung Baby is an album that exists too)
@filenine i have heard from several sources that the album "Achtung Baby" exists. this is all i know about it
polographer@mcc @filenine I found your thread seconds after posting this https://mastodon.social/@polographer/113263769046975511