ITunes music on Android

[corwin]

So it's probably been covered here somewhere but I'm not finding it so here goes...my wife is pretty much done with her iPhone and is thinking of going to an Android phone next, but she doesn't want to lose all the music she has bought from ITunes. Is there a compatible player that would allow her to easily move her music to an Android phone? Something relatively easy to use? And while we're at it where's the best place to get new music after the switch?

 

[zerogear]

I don't remember, but iTunes music should be non-DRM'd AAC or M4A? -- If so, most android music players should support it. PowerAmp being the first one off the top of my head.

 

[akugami]

Worst case, burn it to CD, re-rip it as MP3.

 

[corwin]

I don't remember, but iTunes music should be non-DRM'd AAC or M4A? -- If so, most android music players should support it. PowerAmp being the first one off the top of my head.

Pretty sure there's drm, unless they did a massive 180 I never heard about

Worst case, burn it to CD, re-rip it as MP3.

Thousands of songs make that not very feasible

 

[Crono]

Pretty sure there's drm, unless they did a massive 180 I never heard about

They did that massive 180 a few years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store#Movement_against_DRM

 

[CA19100]

Pretty sure there's drm, unless they did a massive 180 I never heard about

As he said, DRM is long gone with iTunes music, for over four years now. It's sold as AAC audio, which most if not all Android phones should play just fine.

Before I switched back to an iPhone, I was using Salling Media Sync to sync my iTunes library to my Droid. It worked well for me. It's available for Windows and Mac.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I just had to do this with my friend's S4 the other day. Download Google Music for your desktop and during setup it will ask if you want to upload all of your iTunes music to Google Music.

Done, 1 click.

 

[Crono]

I just had to do this with my friend's S4 the other day. Download Google Music for your desktop and during setup it will ask if you want to upload all of your iTunes music to Google Music.

Done, 1 click.

It's probably quicker to do it via manual transfer if it's a large collection on a slow upload connection.

 

[jpeyton]

+1 on transferring it to Google Music.

Do it once and never worry about transferring music to your device again. Stream it anytime/anywhere, or download songs/albums to your device's local storage.

 

[corwin]

Well I'll be...I didn't know they finally did that...

 

[zerogear]

I still refuse to feed money to Apple though

 

[Mopetar]

You should just be able to the songs with whatever music app the Android phones has. The only way you wouldn't be able to is if the tracks have DRM on them, but as several others have mentioned, Apple hasn't had DRM on their music for years, and I think there's even a way to "upgrade" older tracks to a non-DRM higher bit-rate version.

 

[corwin]

I still refuse to feed money to Apple though

As do I...my wife on the other hand

But at least she's ready to make the switch:thumbsup:

 

[zerogear]

Takin' off the training wheel

 

[corwin]

Takin' off the training wheel

So on a related note, suggestions for a new source of music? Hoping to get her off the apple cart completely

 

[Crono]

So on a related note, suggestions for a new source of music? Hoping to get her off the apple cart completely

To own, Amazon MP3
Subscription: Xbox Music, Google Play Music, Spotify, roughly in that order, though Xbox Music is better on desktop and Windows Phone than Android since you can't keep music offline just yet. Google Play Music and Spotify work great on Android, but Spotify has a better desktop application.

 

[QueBert]

There's a paid app on the Play store called iSyncr, allows you to use iTunes seamlessly with Android. Wifi syncing and all. I wouldn't recommend using Google Cloud simply because without a lot of fuckin tinkering the only music she'll be able to use is Google Music which licks sweaty balls. iSyncr + PlayerPro is the best combo on Android.

 

[corwin]

There's a paid app on the Play store called iSyncr, allows you to use iTunes seamlessly with Android. Wifi syncing and all. I wouldn't recommend using Google Cloud simply because without a lot of fuckin tinkering the only music she'll be able to use is Google Music which licks sweaty balls. iSyncr + PlayerPro is the best combo on Android.

Thanks, will definitely have to check that out once she picks her new phone

 

[master7045]

I used iSyncr on an Asus tablet for the exact same reason. It worked really well, I don't remember running into any roadblocks with it either.

 

[sweenish]

For source, I went old school and just buy the discs. I rip them v0, which no other service does, and it suits me fine.

If I find that I need something else, I can always re-rip.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Well I'll be...I didn't know they finally did that...

I didn't know either. When my friend asked me to move his iTunes library all I could think in my was "fuck".

Anways, I haven't downloaded or bought music since I subscribed to Google Music. $8 a month to be lazy and never have to download again.

 

[sweenish]

I didn't know either. When my friend asked me to move his iTunes library all I could think in my was "fuck".

Anways, I haven't downloaded or bought music since I subscribed to Google Music. $8 a month to be lazy and never have to download again.

Being subscribed to a music service for 5, 6 months on a ~2 year old platform has no bearing on iTunes dropping DRM about 4 years ago.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Being subscribed to a music service for 5, 6 months on a ~2 year old platform has no bearing on iTunes dropping DRM about 4 years ago.

Im sorry I dont know if I'm drunk or not but I dont understand your train of thought. My two statements were separate ideas.

 

[Cruisin1]

Yeah install Google music on a computer with her Itunes account and it will import all her music from itunes into google music.

 

[prism]

Am I seriously the only person here that just drags and drops my iTunes music onto my GNex?? I'm not even very smart :|