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Best & easiest way to get itunes to Android ICS

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taxiron1

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I am still struggling with the problem of getting my entire itunes library from my mac to my razr maxx. I have used Google Music. i Sky, Motocast, and a few others.

The problem seems to be twofold:

1. Either the software can't transfer music that is DRM locked, OR
2. My PC (Mac) has to be on , and I need a wifi connection.

I am just looking for a DRM override method, and putting ALL of my itunes on my Razr Maxx. I have no problem doing a USB sync when I need to update my tunes.

Any suggestions ?
 
I believe Apple has the option of allowing to you re-download all your music once. If you do this for the files that are DRM protected, the new ones won't be. Apple stopped using DRM in 2009.
 
The problem may not exactly be that your music files in itunes are DRM protected, but that they are in a *.m4p format by default in itunes. This format is Apple's creation, and they aren't friendly with other programs generally. However, it's easy to convert your music to Mp3 format in itunes (although it may take a long time). In itunes, you can select certain songs (or multiples at once) and go to the Advanced tab, then select "create mp3 verision". Even the songs that you purchased through itunes will convert to mp3 (most of them, I've come across a few that won't). And then just delete the m4p version from itunes so every song isn't listed twice.

I use google music, and have the Google music manager on my iMac. It works really well. Whenever I update a playlist, or add a song, it makes it way over to my library in the cloud.
 
I use Offline Music Importer, but I'm on a Windows machine. The Google Music client on my computer automatically detects changes to my iTunes library and uploads the new songs to Google Music. The Play Music app on my phone, in turn, automatically senses these changes and downloads the music to my phone (yeah, I'm weird like that... want all my music local). Finally, the Offline Music Importer automatically detects the new music and moves it to the SD card and deletes the music from the cache.

The long way around, but it works for me and is pretty much automatic so I ain't complaining. :D

I've heard very good things about iSyncr.
 
I have v.10.5.3.3 of iTunes and don't have the convert to mp3 option. What version are you using?
Thanks
 
monicakm said:
I have v.10.5.3.3 of iTunes and don't have the convert to mp3 option. What version are you using?
Thanks
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It's been a couple of years at least since I did this, but if I recall correctly, the only way to get around Apple's copy protection was to first burn the tracks to a CD and then reimport them to iTunes. The reimported tracks would not be copy protected. There was also a third-party utility (the name of which I do not recall) that created a virtual CD, burned the copy-protected tracks to the virtual CD, and then reimported to iTunes. That made the task considerably more convenient (not to mention saving a lot of CDs!). A Google search should turn up something for you.

I believe you can also redownload the tracks you had purchased in a non-copy-protected format, but I think Apple charges a fee for this.
 
monicakm said:
I have v.10.5.3.3 of iTunes and don't have the convert to mp3 option. What version are you using?
Thanks
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I have 10.6.3. I'm not sure if versions would be the same across windows and mac, but that's what I have.

Also, what I do know, is that I've been able to convert my itunes purchases for 2 or 3 years now. But like I said, not every track you download is permitted to be converted, but most are! And you don't have to burn it to a CD first and recopy it.

Try right clicking on a track and see if the option is there.
 
AVSkillet said:
I have 10.6.3. I'm not sure if versions would be the same across windows and mac, but that's what I have.

Also, what I do know, is that I've been able to convert my itunes purchases for 2 or 3 years now. But like I said, not every track you download is permitted to be converted, but most are! And you don't have to burn it to a CD first and recopy it.

Try right clicking on a track and see if the option is there.
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The need to copy to a cd first only applied to Apple's original copy protected AAC files. iTunes would not convert such files to mp3s. But Apple has not used that format for several years. Since I converted my copy-protected tracks long long ago and did not keep the originals, I cannot test this, but perhaps more recent versions of iTunes might include a function to remove the copy protection from those old files. That would be convenient.
 
AVSkillet said:
The problem may not exactly be that your music files in itunes are DRM protected, but that they are in a *.m4p format by default in itunes. This format is Apple's creation, and they aren't friendly with other programs generally. However, it's easy to convert your music to Mp3 format in itunes (although it may take a long time). In itunes, you can select certain songs (or multiples at once) and go to the Advanced tab, then select "create mp3 verision". Even the songs that you purchased through itunes will convert to mp3 (most of them, I've come across a few that won't). And then just delete the m4p version from itunes so every song isn't listed twice.

I use google music, and have the Google music manager on my iMac. It works really well. Whenever I update a playlist, or add a song, it makes it way over to my library in the cloud.
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Actually *.m4p is the protected (DRM) format. *m4a is the unprotected file format and it's pretty well used in all music players. This is my personal opinion, but I find *.m4a a little richer than *.mp3 (again my personal opion). I also have all my music ripped in this format which had imported to Google music with no problems, and it plays well in DoubleTwist, WinAmp, and several other players...
 
The only convert option I get in itunes is to convert to AAC ? Is this another Apple version of mp3 that can be copied ?
 
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