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Apple needs to allow importing songs into the Music app on iOS from any source, not just iTunes and its own store. This has been a long standing pain point. Not

Apple needs to allow importing songs into the Music app on iOS from any source, not just iTunes and its own store. This has been a long standing pain point. Not everybody wants Apple Music and not everybody wants to buy music from Apple. But there are people with existing music collections who want to add them to iOS devices easily without having to use iTunes. This procedure works for iBooks, where you can add books from any source online through the share sheet. But it's not allowed for Music in 2016^, nearly 10 years since Steve Jobs wrote his Thoughts on DRM. ^: presumably due to licensing issues and/or agreements with the record labels and/or wanting a monopoly on music

dublinben 10y ago
If you want to manage and control your own music library, you're not Apple's intended customer. If you are inside the Apple ecosystem, they expect you to play entirely within their ecosystem. I suggest you try using an Android phone, where you can easily drag & drop any files you want, and can manage them with any program you choose.
izacus 10y ago
Isn't that what iTunes Match did (does?) for a fee?
- dave5104 10y ago
  No, iTunes Match simply allows you to sync your music via iCloud. If you have a song on your computer in iTunes, Match will find the song in their catalogue and let you download that to your iPhone, or it will upload the music file from your computer and let you download that to your iPhone. It was basically a way to cut the cord, so to speak, and not have to actually sync your phone to your computer. You still need iTunes for it all to work in the end.
Grishnakh 10y ago
>Apple needs to allow importing songs into the Music app on iOS from any source, not just iTunes and its own store. Why? I think Microsoft "needs" to go back to the Win7 UI, or better yet just open-source their OS and shut down their company, but that's not going to happen because they don't agree with me. >Not everybody wants Apple Music and not everybody wants to buy music from Apple. So what? If you don't like having to buy all your music from Apple, then don't buy an iPhone. There's plenty of other non-Apple devices out there. People who don't want Apple Music and don't want to buy from Apple are not target customers for Apple. They don't need you; they have plenty of suckers happy to pay them $$$$ for a phone and then more $$$ to buy all their music from iTunes. >agreements with the record labels and/or wanting a monopoly on music Android phones don't have this problem, and they have music stores too, plus you can just load your own music in MP3 or Ogg format easily. On many phones, you don't even have to use USB to transfer it, because you can just copy it from your PC to an SDcard which you can then insert in the phone. Of course it's the monopoly angle: they want a monopoly on how Apple users get music, and they have one. If you don't like that, then don't buy an Apple.

dublinben 10y ago

If you want to manage and control your own music library, you're not Apple's intended customer. If you are inside the Apple ecosystem, they expect you to play entirely within their ecosystem. I suggest you try using an Android phone, where you can easily drag & drop any files you want, and can manage them with any program you choose.

izacus 10y ago

Isn't that what iTunes Match did (does?) for a fee?

dave5104 10y ago
No, iTunes Match simply allows you to sync your music via iCloud. If you have a song on your computer in iTunes, Match will find the song in their catalogue and let you download that to your iPhone, or it will upload the music file from your computer and let you download that to your iPhone. It was basically a way to cut the cord, so to speak, and not have to actually sync your phone to your computer. You still need iTunes for it all to work in the end.

Grishnakh 10y ago

>Apple needs to allow importing songs into the Music app on iOS from any source, not just iTunes and its own store. Why? I think Microsoft "needs" to go back to the Win7 UI, or better yet just open-source their OS and shut down their company, but that's not going to happen because they don't agree with me. >Not everybody wants Apple Music and not everybody wants to buy music from Apple. So what? If you don't like having to buy all your music from Apple, then don't buy an iPhone. There's plenty of other non-Apple devices out there. People who don't want Apple Music and don't want to buy from Apple are not target customers for Apple. They don't need you; they have plenty of suckers happy to pay them $$$$ for a phone and then more $$$ to buy all their music from iTunes. >agreements with the record labels and/or wanting a monopoly on music Android phones don't have this problem, and they have music stores too, plus you can just load your own music in MP3 or Ogg format easily. On many phones, you don't even have to use USB to transfer it, because you can just copy it from your PC to an SDcard which you can then insert in the phone. Of course it's the monopoly angle: they want a monopoly on how Apple users get music, and they have one. If you don't like that, then don't buy an Apple.