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@Coin The one I got was a birthday present all the way back in 2005. Then again I haven't used it very heavily, and it was in a protective case for years.
@Miss-Demeanor I keep intending to put songs on my phone and I keep forgetting. Then again it 'only' has 32 GB storage total, and I'm also a lil' bit worried about its battery life if I use it as a player as well.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@ThatOneDude said:
Not sure if its been posted yet... But you'll all be better off on a mac.
Just saying! Windows 10 is trying to be OS X and failing, and the good things I hear are basically ports of OS X >.>
Oh Look, an iLemming! It's so cuuuuuute!
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@Miss-Demeanor said:
The same cannot be said of Google's various media applications, or Amazon's, or Netflix or Kindle or... I think you see where I'm going with this.
Just as an aside, last time I tried, you can't get access to any of your amazon videos on a non-Amazon tablet. The kindle reader is available, but the rest is locked down.
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@Arkandel said:
@Coin The one I got was a birthday present all the way back in 2005. Then again I haven't used it very heavily, and it was in a protective case for years.
@Miss-Demeanor I keep intending to put songs on my phone and I keep forgetting. Then again it 'only' has 32 GB storage total, and I'm also a lil' bit worried about its battery life if I use it as a player as well.
I've done this with my android phones for years now. Depends on how long you use it as a player. Due to a short in my system, I can't use my Blazer's stereo, so there sits my Note4 on my passenger seat blaring music to work and back every day. I have a lot of songs on there, I don't know 400+? I still have plenty of gigs left.
Unlike apples, you can always buy a backup battery, but it's not that necessary with a newer Samsung, battery charges in less than an hour.
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@Coin said:
@Arkandel said:
@Three-Eyed-Crow I do own an ancient iPod 80 GB classic which works really well even now. The battery isn't as great as it used to, but it's practically not limiting me at all. I got no complaints (okay, maybe the interface bugs me a little bit).
Until very early this year I had an iPod Nano that I bought in... like... 2007. It finally--finally--stopped working altogether.
Yeah, mine's like 3 years old at this point and, apart from the battery life, it works just as well as it always did.
I swear this is why Apple isn't as high on developing them as they are on stuff like IPhones. They just don't become redundant particularly fast, so there's not the same crack-like need to line up and buy a new one every 10 months.
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@Glitch said:
@Miss-Demeanor said:
The same cannot be said of Google's various media applications, or Amazon's, or Netflix or Kindle or... I think you see where I'm going with this.
Just as an aside, last time I tried, you can't get access to any of your amazon videos on a non-Amazon tablet. The kindle reader is available, but the rest is locked down.
Dunno about tablets but I can watch my amazon videos on my Note4, just had to download a little player from Amazon directly instead of the from GooglePlay.
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@Arkandel I bought a microSD with larger storage capacity.
Put all my media stuff on that.@Glitch My son has a Kindle Fire, but my mom has a Samsung tablet and she has 0 issues with using Amazon anything on it. And I personally can access my Amazon videos on my PC and phone. Just use the Amazon app.
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Hmm, I know it wasn't available when I tried, but it was awhile ago so I'll give it another shot. Thanks!
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@Glitch No problem! If you run into any issues, you're welcome to tag me on Skype. I'm happy to help troubleshoot if it'll get your tablet with the program!
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@Miss-Demeanor said:
@Arkandel I bought a microSD with larger storage capacity.
Put all my media stuff on that.Yeah, that works. Unfortunately my Samsung S6 doesn't have a slot, so 32 GB is all I got - and some of it goes to apps, obviously.
If only phone companies offered infinite data plans... but they don't. And GB/month will dry up real fast if I start streaming music to it (which would be the ideal solution).
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Yeah, that had to be one of Samsung's worse ideas... along with sealing the battery case.
I have shared 10GB a month data between 3 people, work 6-8 hour days... iHeart Radio is amazeballs for that. Doesn't suck down data and lets me choose from a broad variety of music AND existing radio stations. -
@Miss-Demeanor That's pretty prohibitive.
320kbps would be what, something like 2.4 MB per minute? So... 115 MB per hour based on my napkin calculations?I guess occasionally listening to the radio (4-5 hours a month) is doable but anything remotely like regular use would decimate the data plan.
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I don't like how Samsung closed out the battery and microSD card slots for the S6 but I do like how it looks. I'm also a crazy person who does not put a case around it. I do put a case around my Samsung Note 4 Edge because that's my work phone and I tend to drop it more frequently both because of size and getting irate with someone at work.
Honestly, I could care less about the microSD slot. It does happen to be slower than a native flash chip for certain tasks like burst photos and I never fill up more than 16GB anyway (although I bought a 64GB S6 Edge because it was the only one available at the time). I take a lot of photos, I take some movies, and at most, I have maybe 4-5 hours of music for the times when I will be in an area with no data service. Otherwise, I just stream Pandora and call it a day. I have a 6GB plan. My parents are also on it plus my work phone, but it's basically 6GB by myself and I only use up maybe 2-3GB a month average. I'm sure the needs will increase over time but I don't have many downloaded apps because I try to keep a clean environment for all of my machines. I don't keep any full length video like TV shows in internal storage.
...I also do have a second phone that DOES have a microSD card slot. I may be cheating.
There's lower fidelity streaming that is not bandwidth intensive and Pandora is not nearly at 320kbps even in its HQ streaming.
I am pondering dabbling into a Windows 10 phone when such a thing comes out so I can see the unity of OS in the live on machines designed to take full advantage of Windows 10. I have an iPad for light browsing, an ipod touch, and APPL stock, but those are all legacy items for when iTunes was the only game in town before Amazon came to being for digital music/streaming services. I'd rather dispense with the Android/Chrome OS and sit on a single platform because I don't like the fragmentation of system knowledge just amongst my own devices.
But Microsoft has yet to win me their trust with Windows 10... which just crashed when I tried to sort my downloads by Tile rather than Details.
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@Arkandel I've not had an issue with it yet. And I work a solid 30 hours a week right now.
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@Miss-Demeanor said:
I can have iTunes on my Windows PC, spend hundreds of dollars on songs, shows, movies, and books... but I cannot have it anywhere BUT my computer without buying Apple's (to me) horrendously expensive iPhone or Macbook.
The songs are in MP3 format. Put them wherever you want. If you've been downloading them in Apple's AAC format, you can re-download them in MP3.
The books are, I think, in epub format? Correction: Close-ish but nope. But man, why are you using the iBooks Store? Why are you not using Amazon? Why?!
I have nothing to say on any company's video stores, because I'm likely to start frothing at the mouth again. But: Apple is a Hardware Company, not a Service Company. Amazon or Netflix, here.
I would just as likely consider Microsoft a Service Company as I would Apple. Apple is better at it, but yeah.
Caveat Emptor still applies. Make Informed Decisions. Do not be a fanatic, hater, or mindless drone.
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@Thenomain I had iTunes long before Amazon and Netflix and Google Whatever were really known. I don't have any books through iTunes, but I do have a ton of songs and movies through it. These days I use Amazon, Netflix, or Google for... pretty much everything. But I had no clue the stuff I got from iTunes could eve BE reformatted. So thanks! I'll have to poke at it.
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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204310
I'm pretty sure you can re-download into Mp3 any previous purchases, too. I can't immediately find the Apple support document on it, but my guess would be "Somewhere in Preferences, probably under Store".
another edit: Or right-click on the song. My brain wants to say there, too. If so, you can right-click on a bunch of songs to do the same thing? This is going to bug me.
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This isn't a bad guide on how to convert your older ITunes files.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-convert-Itunes-music-in-to-mp3-in-i-tunes/?ALLSTEPS
I guess with newer purchases it matters less, since they discontinued the old file-crippling DRM awhile ago.
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I don't know (*) if I'm risking @Thenomain's wrath but I dislike iTunes' interface.
Edit: But I suspect I do.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Tons of people hate iTunes. Hating something because it doesn't work for you is a matter of opinion, so I don't see why anyone would care. Even a lot of Apple fans hate the iTunes interface and iTunes in general. It's terrible on Windows, far far worse than it is on the Mac.
Hating something for it not being usable for you is understandable.
@Three-Eyed-Crow said:
I guess with newer purchases it matters less, since they discontinued the old file-crippling DRM awhile ago.
This is it. You can re-download the purchased file in DRM-Free format. Then you can convert from MP4 to MP3 if you want.
