Ok, I did not think about burning the downloaded itunes files using itunes, then re-ripping it. That’s a great solution, and I’m going to try it. Thank you very much!
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This hasn’t been true for something like 8 years now. Virtually every smartphone has supported playing AAC files for a long time.
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Either my cheap LG phone Bought Black Friday 2014) is one of the few exceptions or I did something wrong. But eschereal’s solution provides a workaround in any case..
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Plus it doesn’t really apply, does it?
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Er, was this a reference to my post? You’re basically interested in streaming (sort of a radio format?), but not downloading the music to your pod for future listening? My apologies then. Since you mentioned that you already have LP’s and Cd’s I thought you might want to transfer your old music to the new apple devices.
I’ve tried Google Play music, Amazon Prime music, Apple Music, Pandora Premium, etc, and finally settled on Spotify. It has no ads, it has artist- or song-based radio stations (something Apple Music didn’t have), playlists, seven of which are automatically generated for you each week based on your listening habits, and a pretty good catalog of music to search through (Pandora, of course, doesn’t let you pick out individual songs, artists or albums to listen to exclusively – they’re radio only, which means you don’t get to pick what comes next). Amazon and Google play just didn’t seem to have the selection I wanted.
But who knows? I’ll probably find another service I like better in a few months. That’s one thing that’s great about streaming music so far. There’s no lock-in. And a lot of them have month or more free-trials, so you can try before you buy.
This is exactly my experience. I spent like a year trying out the “free month” of Google Play Music, Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify and decided Spotify was the best of all worlds. Also it links to quite a bit of electronics (my Amazon Echo, Google Home, Chromecast, my Yamaha A/V Receiver). I think Spotify balances very well between recommending what you may like based on your listening habits (“Discovery”) and providing new music regardless of your listening habits (the “Fresh Finds”). Also very well meshed with social media.
