Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019

Re:Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019 by SyneRyder on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:47PM (#15895016)

If you download the files to your laptop, you'll still have those files to keep and transfer between your devices. I bought most of my music on iTunes, then copied it across to my Android device via a microSD card.

(Incidentally, I'm still looking for a good Android music player for my offline files. Google Play Music works, but it isn't very elegant & it's hard to browse when you have lots of artists. I guess I'm wondering what the modern day Android equivalent of Winamp is.)

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Re:Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019 by jakecopp on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:29PM (#15895165)

Poweramp [1] has a really nice UI (even with an ugly website) and properly refreshes when new music is added to the filesystem. I wrote some code [2] to rsync my music from iTunes to my Android phone over wifi as I got sick of all the buggy syncing solutions.

[1]: http://powerampapp.com/ [2]: https://github.com/jakecoppinger/android-itunes-rsync

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Re:Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019 by fro0116 on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:14AM (#15895288)

I've been using Syncthing [0] for syncing music between all of my devices (Android phone included) for quite a while and it has always worked perfectly for me.

Curious if you also consider that one of those "buggy syncing solutions" you mentioned? And if so, what issues have you experienced with it?

[0] https://syncthing.net/

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Re:Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019 by dingo_bat on Sunday December 10, 2017 @10:57PM (#15895062)

Try poweramp.

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