Posted on 06/30/2017 8:51:13 AM PDT by pabianice
I have lost all my tunes twice over the past several years; once through hard drive failure and once because I changed my email address. In both cases, because the suppliers require a specific login or download code, they were all lost.
I am looking for a service that allows you to buy a tune, download it to hard drive, and then have it available to you with no special code or login so I can simply put them on Windows Media Player. Any help is appreciated.
Amazon does this. I buy almost all of my downloaded music there.
One tool for your mp3 toolbox:
https://ytmp3.cc/
You can find most tunes on youtube. Then any one of several downloaders that will save the music as mp3.
I always have at least 2 hard drives with my tunes for redundancy. I do not stream music or store it on line. I suppose if you want to stream you could use one of those My Clouds. I do not like relying on 3rd parties for this stuff. I have over 2 weeks of music and losing it would be a bad thing.
Downloaders such as...?
See my post 8^)
YouTube. Download with www.keepvid.com .
Convert to mp3.
I just switched computers. Apple requires that you import media to the “library”. It took a while to figure out, but it is frustrating and time consuming. This applies to photos also. The synchronization to phones and tablets further complicates.
You can find most tunes on youtube. Then any one of several downloaders that will save the music as mp3.
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Worth repeating. I’m amazed that people actually pay for music these days. I certainly don’t. YouTube has it all.
And, BTW, Rush Limbaugh fans can listen to YESTERDAY’S show more or less commercial free on YouTube. They run about an hour and forty minutes.
2. MP3va.com is cheap (10¢ per track) and saves all of the tunes you've purchased, forever, so you can download them again whenever you want...for free.
Best path is to do a search on “[service you use] convert to MP3” that will find you the tool you need to undo their “rental” model and get you into an ownership model. And you can probably fix the e-mail thing if you get with customer support, that’s what those secret questions are for.
I would switch to an iPhone if it weren’t for iTunes. The Bain of Apple.
Use mp3fy.com (no length limit). I use it for podcasts as well as music. It’s a youtube downloader.
10 cents a track would cost me 8 1/2 grand to back up... I might have a music problem.
Dittoes.
But “buy”? What does that mean? Once you are Amazon Prime - all your music is free.
I am looking for a service that allows you to buy a tune, download it to hard drive, and then have it available to you with no special code or login so I can simply put them on Windows Media Player.
If you keep repeating the same mistakes - you will keep getting the same problems.
The Cloud, my friend. The cloud is your answer.
And Amazon Prime is the best of the best.
I must admit that most of my collection came via Napster years ago. Over the past 5-7 years I've spent maybe 80 bucks at mp3va.com. All in all, if I played my collection continuously, it would run for about 11 days.
Sounds like yours would run for 6 months.
You’ll need the extended music service though if you go the Prime route. The standard doesn’t have nearly as much music to sample.
All music that has been downloaded sounds like sh!t.
Buy a CD, buy dozens or hundreds if you must.
There is no substitute for full-spectrum music.
Ahhh, to hear Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto in its full fidelity...
Or, Black Sabbath Paranoid as it was in the studio...
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