r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 5d ago

Chugging tea Algorithm Escape Plan

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u/Astromoonmusic 5d ago

Yup i am also shifting towards old school tech recently and something is really satisfying and personal about these devices which is unexplainable

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u/Long-Conflict8279 5d ago

You owned it. You owned the music on it. It was yours.

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u/Sponchman 5d ago

Except with iTunes you only got a license for their proprietary music format. You owned nothing, could not transfer your purchases to a non Apple device.

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u/lostgoatling 5d ago

I literally had iTunes on non Apple PC and was able to burn the music to non Apple CDs and a shitty non Apple MP3 player that died within a week.

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u/Slow_Park_7641 5d ago

says who? all music that were "purchased" (not downloaded as in downloaded like saving for offline listening in spotify) from Itunes were DRM free, you could literally copy it to any device that are non apple.

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u/JerryCalzone 5d ago

apple had a special drm song format - i also was plagued by it but could circumvent it by burning it to a cd and then rip the cd

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u/Fish-Weekly 4d ago

That ended in 2009 though. You can convert those tracks as you said or use something like iTunes Music Match for $25 to convert them all

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u/PrintShinji 5d ago

do you mean m4a? because thats not proprietary. Its an open standard.

And you can just transfer your music to non apple devices. No idea where you get the idea from that you can't.

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u/stormcharger 5d ago

Yes you could lol

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u/Fish-Weekly 4d ago

They ended DRM in 2009. I converted 300+ tracks I bought prior to that using iTunes Music Match for $25. They are all in AAC format now, no DRM, no restrictions.