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Sure, iTunes sells DRM-free music now, but it didn't always so many long-time users will still have DRM'd content around. And you can pull the DRM-free music to
by thinkling 14y ago
Sure, iTunes sells DRM-free music now, but it didn't always so many long-time users will still have DRM'd content around. And you can pull the DRM-free music to another device, but then there's your playlists, your ratings, play counts, current podcast subscriptions, you name it. With e-books it's bookmarks, highlights, and annotations. Each media type has its set of metadata that you'd like to bring along.
- masklinn 14y ago> Sure, iTunes sells DRM-free music now, but it didn't always so many long-time users will still have DRM'd content around. All of it can be converted to DRM-free, including directly from itunes. > And you can pull the DRM-free music to another device, but then there's your playlists, your ratings, play counts, current podcast subscriptions There's a whole cottage industry of software reading iTunes Library.xml, though as a last recourse you can also copy your lists directly, as if it were a spreadsheet (it'll be placed into your pasteboard as tab-separated content) iTunes itself is shit, but there's surprisingly little actual lock-in going on.