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Don't forget the mundane detail of "I have no idea what Apple did with my 60GB music library or how to get it on my phone again". Thankfully I've been a spotif

by rconti 7y ago

Don't forget the mundane detail of "I have no idea what Apple did with my 60GB music library or how to get it on my phone again". Thankfully I've been a spotify subscriber for years so I can just keep kicking that can down the road, but some day I'd like my music back.

m0xte 7y ago
Spotify kept removing what I listen to so it got canned pretty quick.
- balls187 7y ago
  That is really annoying, but I bet it's not spotify per-se, but the music's copyright owners wishes.
  - rbinv 7y ago
    It's a good thing those wishes can't delete MP3s.
    - balls187 7y ago
      In many ways I agree with you. As you have paid for a license to listen to that music in that specific format, that should be 100% irrevocable.
  - genf 7y ago
    That’s not relevant.
RHSeeger 7y ago
My wife has been fighting with iTunes screwing up her music library for years. It's a constant pain point for her.
SamuelAdams 7y ago
Dunno if it'll work perfectly, but if you have the music on your PC you may be able to use the VLC app for iOS [1]. I use it for streaming movies / tv / music on my NAS but I think it can do some sort of PC sync. [1]: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
nobleach 7y ago
I had one of those really nice 100GB music libraries that I had been ripping from CDs since 1998. (and Napster/WinMX/Kazaa/Limewire-ing because... I was young, stupid and poor) I had meticulously been fixing ID3 tags, and putting them into the folder structure that made me happy. Then one day, I did a new Mac setup, and forgot to tick the box that said, "let me manage my library layout" and BAM. iTunes moved everything around. 10 years of collating, and sorting, etc, GONE. It's my fault for not backing it up... but wow. I basically just stopped listening to that library. I now do Spotify.
- _jal 7y ago
  > I now do Spotify. I have this dark suspicion that that this is a perfectly acceptable outcome to music steaming concerns. I'm not saying that Apple or anyone else is intentionally trashing libraries to encourage streaming. Just that they have no good reason to care about your carefully curated library, and in fact have something to gain if it went away.
- 72deluxe 7y ago
  Surely that music library is important and cost you money? Why would you give your money to another service to listen to the same music again, that you already own? I ask this because I have about 900 albums on CD that I ripped and then stored away in the loft/under the stairs and could never envisage actually paying a streaming service to listen to stuff I actually have already bought. I mean, I have an iPod Classic that has all this music on it, and my MacBook too. It seems odd the general acceptance of streaming services and rent-everything approach these days. Seems very odd to me (but yes I do have a Netflix account, just don't rent everything else under the sun - the worst is Grammarly - why subscribe to a spell check???? Mind blown).
  - hombre_fatal 7y ago
    Unless I'm mistaken, they're not talking about some cloud/streaming service, just exposing their music folder to iTunes.app so that iTunes can give them a GUI over it (like search/sorting). Without the checkbox, iTunes employs its own local folder organization strategy and will update id3 tags and album art from fingerprint lookups.
dingo_bat 7y ago
Since most flagships now start at 256GB of internal storage, why can't you just copy all of your existing library to your phone and listen to it?
meerita 7y ago
My problem with Spotify: some bands aren't there.
toomuchApple 7y ago
When I was younger I bought 2 songs, burned them on a CD, then ripped it to get the mp3s. Glad I had that mentality, Apple has never been trustworthy.

by rconti 7y ago

m0xte 7y ago

Spotify kept removing what I listen to so it got canned pretty quick.

balls187 7y ago
That is really annoying, but I bet it's not spotify per-se, but the music's copyright owners wishes.
- rbinv 7y ago
  It's a good thing those wishes can't delete MP3s.
  - balls187 7y ago
    In many ways I agree with you. As you have paid for a license to listen to that music in that specific format, that should be 100% irrevocable.
- genf 7y ago
  That’s not relevant.

RHSeeger 7y ago

My wife has been fighting with iTunes screwing up her music library for years. It's a constant pain point for her.

SamuelAdams 7y ago

Dunno if it'll work perfectly, but if you have the music on your PC you may be able to use the VLC app for iOS [1]. I use it for streaming movies / tv / music on my NAS but I think it can do some sort of PC sync. [1]: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html

nobleach 7y ago

I had one of those really nice 100GB music libraries that I had been ripping from CDs since 1998. (and Napster/WinMX/Kazaa/Limewire-ing because... I was young, stupid and poor) I had meticulously been fixing ID3 tags, and putting them into the folder structure that made me happy. Then one day, I did a new Mac setup, and forgot to tick the box that said, "let me manage my library layout" and BAM. iTunes moved everything around. 10 years of collating, and sorting, etc, GONE. It's my fault for not backing it up... but wow. I basically just stopped listening to that library. I now do Spotify.

_jal 7y ago
> I now do Spotify. I have this dark suspicion that that this is a perfectly acceptable outcome to music steaming concerns. I'm not saying that Apple or anyone else is intentionally trashing libraries to encourage streaming. Just that they have no good reason to care about your carefully curated library, and in fact have something to gain if it went away.
72deluxe 7y ago
Surely that music library is important and cost you money? Why would you give your money to another service to listen to the same music again, that you already own? I ask this because I have about 900 albums on CD that I ripped and then stored away in the loft/under the stairs and could never envisage actually paying a streaming service to listen to stuff I actually have already bought. I mean, I have an iPod Classic that has all this music on it, and my MacBook too. It seems odd the general acceptance of streaming services and rent-everything approach these days. Seems very odd to me (but yes I do have a Netflix account, just don't rent everything else under the sun - the worst is Grammarly - why subscribe to a spell check???? Mind blown).
- hombre_fatal 7y ago
  Unless I'm mistaken, they're not talking about some cloud/streaming service, just exposing their music folder to iTunes.app so that iTunes can give them a GUI over it (like search/sorting). Without the checkbox, iTunes employs its own local folder organization strategy and will update id3 tags and album art from fingerprint lookups.

dingo_bat 7y ago

Since most flagships now start at 256GB of internal storage, why can't you just copy all of your existing library to your phone and listen to it?

meerita 7y ago

My problem with Spotify: some bands aren't there.

toomuchApple 7y ago

When I was younger I bought 2 songs, burned them on a CD, then ripped it to get the mp3s. Glad I had that mentality, Apple has never been trustworthy.