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Belgique

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Posted: 05/12/12 05:48pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Some advice please. I buy some songs from Amazon, or who ever, and they get downloaded to, let's say, my laptop. I want to hear these songs, that I have paid for, on my Droid phone, or my Samsung Tablet, or a MP3 player. I run into all kinds of problems doing this because of copyright protections. I'm not trying to deprive the artists of their $. I just want to hear the songs I paid for.

Right now, I'm having to buy them for each device. It's not a huge $ issue (compared to gas or new MH tires) but is their a solution that this geezer is missing? Thanks in advance. Steve

PS: I listen to these in the MH so this is relevant to RV.net


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Posted: 05/12/12 05:51pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

how about downloadoing them first to your phone and then move them to the laptop. that works with my iPhone and windows PC.


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Simple solution: Spotify!

www.spotify.com.
You can download the app to your computer, your droid, iphone, ipad, android tablet, etc. Spotify gives you unlimited music streaming to ANY song that has EVER been released digitally. Anything that you can buy on iTunes, Amazon, etc. can be heard on Spotify, AND synced to your phone or device for offline listening. It costs $10.00 a month for unlimited use.
So, it's ONE CD a month, or downloading 10 .99 cent songs.
Spotify streaming works over 3G/4G or wiFi. Create a playlist that you want to take with you, and sync the tracks to your device. Then you can listen to them anywhere, without a connection.

I sound like a commercial! But seriously, I use it all day, every day, in every vehicle. I can listen in my truck using my droid phone, then I go in the house and open the MacBook and keep listening there. Any artist, any song, anytime. It's also on my wife's phone and her tablet. We both always have music everywhere. $10.00 a month that's drafted automatically out of my account.


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Only real way around this issue is to record the licensed file to a cd and re-rip it to a file imp3 format.

This is reall why when folks ask what tablet , music player or phone I should get my first reply is what online store do you want to buy media from

The ads on tv make it all seem so simple...

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Don't know what you are doing wrong but there is no Digital Rights Management on Amazon music mp3 downloads so that you have the flexibility to play them on any of your media players, PC or burn them to CD.

Download them and transfer to any player or device you want. It is yours for your use.
Amazon also has a cloud for your storage and play of your music.


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Posted: 05/12/12 08:19pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

garym114 is on to something although I am not sure if using the "cloud" will work for sharing WMA files with DRM.

If you are buying WMA files they will have DRM embedded in the files.

With DRM you must "sync" the file with the portable device.

The problem is not all portable media players recognize the DRM sync.

So, the solutions are

1, Download the MP3 versions instead of WMA versions

2, burn the WMA versions as a audio CD and then rip to MP3

3, Find some software to remove the DRM (although not really legit)

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JaredWPhillips wrote:

Simple solution: Spotify!

www.spotify.com.
You can download the app to your computer, your droid, iphone, ipad, android tablet, etc. Spotify gives you unlimited music streaming to ANY song that has EVER been released digitally. Anything that you can buy on iTunes, Amazon, etc. can be heard on Spotify, AND synced to your phone or device for offline listening. It costs $10.00 a month for unlimited use.
So, it's ONE CD a month, or downloading 10 .99 cent songs.
Spotify streaming works over 3G/4G or wiFi. Create a playlist that you want to take with you, and sync the tracks to your device. Then you can listen to them anywhere, without a connection.

I sound like a commercial! But seriously, I use it all day, every day, in every vehicle. I can listen in my truck using my droid phone, then I go in the house and open the MacBook and keep listening there. Any artist, any song, anytime. It's also on my wife's phone and her tablet. We both always have music everywhere. $10.00 a month that's drafted automatically out of my account.


This looks nice. The premium at $10/month gives you the ability to download over 3,300 songs on up to 3 mobile devices.

I only buy about 1 album per month so the cost would be about the same. This would give me access to everything until I cancel and then I would have nothing.


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Posted: 05/12/12 10:48pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

streaming is "unconditional RENTAL"
it is not buying when it stored in your account not stored on the device and requires that you have an internet data connection and keep using data every time you listen to the song
it is a subscription service, you could pay $10 a month for 10 months
if you drop the subscription you have NOTHING, no songs on any of your devices

JaredWPhillips wrote:

Simple solution: Spotify!

www.spotify.com.
You can download the app to your computer, your droid, iphone, ipad, android tablet, etc. Spotify gives you unlimited music streaming to ANY song that has EVER been released digitally. Anything that you can buy on iTunes, Amazon, etc. can be heard on Spotify, AND synced to your phone or device for offline listening. It costs $10.00 a month for unlimited use.
So, it's ONE CD a month, or downloading 10 .99 cent songs.
Spotify streaming works over 3G/4G or wiFi. Create a playlist that you want to take with you, and sync the tracks to your device. Then you can listen to them anywhere, without a connection.

I sound like a commercial! But seriously, I use it all day, every day, in every vehicle. I can listen in my truck using my droid phone, then I go in the house and open the MacBook and keep listening there. Any artist, any song, anytime. It's also on my wife's phone and her tablet. We both always have music everywhere. $10.00 a month that's drafted automatically out of my account.



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Posted: 05/14/12 12:57am Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

I download to a computer the MP3 files and from there I can copy them to a MP3 player or to a DVD or to any other computer. I only violate the DRM if I give the files to a third party. This was settled long ago in the courts that said it was legal for a owner of a CD or DVD to make a backup copy. I can play a CD in my computer, in my audio system, or in my cars. No reason I cannot do the same with an audio file.

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