Hello Nightfox!

** On Friday 31.07.20 - 15:11, nightfox wrote to Vk3jed:

Hmm, why? They're just .m4a or .aac files and will play on anything
(no DRM) that supports the format. I currently have a heap of iTunes
purchases happily playing on my Android phone. You just have to
manually copy the files from your iTunes folders or the Apple device
to the phone. But I think I used an app to do the migration from
Apple to Android, to save some tedious work. :)

I started buying tunes in the pre-DRMfree days. Although I can still redownload an old purchase, those files still seem to have DRM.

Yeah, when I had an iPod Touch, I remember browsing it in my file
explorer, and I found all the MP3 files had mangled names and were
organized in folders with mangled names - at least, the names were
mangled to me. I'm sure the names meant something to iOS and iTunes.
But you basically have to use iTunes to manage your music on an iOS
device. One thing I like about Android is that you can just copy the
files to the device and and can organize it the way you want, so you
don't have to go through any software like iTunes etc..

I have a couple of iPods and discovered the same thing. But the "trick"
was to simply keep a copy of the original purchase on your desktop version
of iTunes. Once the tune was on the iPod, the raw filenames made no sense
and could not be copied as is without renaming them to match the song.

Or.. as I found out later, you could redownload any purchase at any time using a desktop/laptop with iTunes. Then you would get the tune with the proper filename.

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