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Question about downloading from iTunes store

posted 2 years ago in The Lounge

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Bumble bee

Valhalla June 26, 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia

I am sooo un-tech saavy, so I thought I would put this one out there to the hive!

I am doing my own playlists for the wedding, and will need to purchase the extra music for songs I don't have in my collection. I thought it would be easy to download them via the iTunes store, but it used to be that when you bought songs from Apple, they only came in the stupid "Apple only" file extension format so they could not be played on any media player except for iTunes or on your iPod. I just want to buy music, not chain myself to iTunes forever.

Does anyone know if this is still the case, or are the files you purchase from the iTunes stores now mp3 format? If they are still iTunes only format, can anyone recommend an alternative site to purchase music from that does sell songs in mp3 format?

Thanks bees! Forgive me if my questions seem silly :)

2 years ago

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Busy bee

Mrs. Menard to Be February 11, 2010 Kansas

i think their songs are all MP4? but i know youtube has videos on how to changed them to mp3 format. You could always burn them to a disk and use that. Or once you burn the disk, someone else can upload them on their computer through whatever player.

2 years ago

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Rhapsody is the way to go. iTunes charges 99 cents per song, and they can only be played on iPods. Rhapsody is $20 per month unlimited downloads. I was able to fill seven playlists in two days using Rhapsody. That would have cost me a fortune on iTunes! Plus iTunes still makes you buy entire albums for just one song (on certain songs) and that's a crap policy.

2 years ago