iPhone 5 owner making the switch, suggestions?

[Fhenrus]

Originally Posted by BigDinCA
Easy way to sync your music, though it won't work for DRM-protected files:
How to sync iTunes music to Android devices

I don't use iTunes so I really don't care, but mp3 files are mp3 files. If you bought your music through iTunes, that's a different story - there is the option to go DRM-free w/ iTunes music, for a price. There are some programs out there as well, but they cost money and I'm not sure of the results you'd get. Others here would be more capable of speaking to that. I do know that you can always go old-school and burn those DRM-protected songs to an audio disk and then rip them back to your computer as mp3 files.
Unless you are sporting some old iTunes music its all DRM free. Ever since the standard was bumped up to 256kbps the DRM was dropped.
You can pay a small fee to upgrade those old 128kbps to 256, I believe its like 30 cents.
Some of the songs that are "album-only" come out in a .m4p extension, just switch it to .m4a and you'll be good to go.

Movies, sadly, are still DRM protected.

woah, I'm getting the one in a few weeks here, however, I do tend to buy a lot of music in iTunes, how would I sync it with my upcoming phone?

 

[scorpiodsu]

The main reason why I don't use apps (especially proprietary) to sync my media is because I'm always changing devices. If I use a Samsung device then maybe kies or HTC sync with an HTC device. I just drag and drop so my process is always consistent.

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[boovish]

I recommend that you just look around in the play store to find some good apps

 

[Golfdriver97]

Google music is limited to 25K songs and there isn't an option to purchase more space. This is really frustrating. I'm planning on working around this by syncing my newly added music to the device manually.

iTunes has the same limitation.

 

[adriandb]

iTunes has the same limitation.

Sure, but it's only applicable if you haven't purchased anything through iTunes. Since several thousand tracks of mine are from the iTunes music store I'm fine.

It isn't a huge deal really. I'll have 64gb of internal storage on my one so I can keep recent purchases on the device.

 

[Mr.Willie]

Thanks guys, all my music is DRM free so that works. Is there a desktop version of Google Music? I am uploading my music right now.

Your DRM free iTunes music is 256 br AAC files which are superior to the outdated mp3 file format. AAC is an open standard and supported by the HTC One. There is no reason to convert them via Google. L

 

[PittsDriver]

According to HTC One Review | TechnoBuffalo "One big gripe we have, however, is that T-Mobile and Sprint will support HTC?s amazing backup solution that makes it easy to move from another device, including the iPhone, to the HTC One. AT&T?s model, however, relies on AT&T?s own device backup software that isn?t as good."

I am hoping that is not the case but am not holding my breath.

This bugged me too. Initial reviews of the HTC One alluded to me being able to seamlessly backup and sync everything from my iPhone to the HTC One. It sucks that AT&T didn't allow this software.

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Your DRM free iTunes music is 256 br AAC files which are superior to the outdated mp3 file format. AAC is an open standard and supported by the HTC One. There is no reason to convert them via Google. L

Does uploading them to Google Music convert them?

 

[Mr.Willie]

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Does uploading them to Google Music convert them?

I don't use Google Music. But I do have an iPad, and iPod Nano. There is a misconception that music (Non DRM) that is purchased through iTunes can only be played on Apple devices or needs to converted to play on other devices, which is false. Also I just had another real world person tell me that the only way to get music on iTunes is to purchase it through the iTunes Store, which is also false. Another rumor floating around is that Apple developed the ACC standard, which of course is false.