Transfer music from s8 to external hard drive

[Mikey1536]

Hi. I just picked up my s8 yesterday . My package included 6 months free streaming from Apple music. My question is does anyone know if & how I can transfer music straight from my phone to my external hard drive? Any help would be much appreciated! Mikey

 

[hallux]

Are these songs that you have actually purchased or just ones you stream?

 

[Mikey1536]

a mixture I guess. I have loads of albums on iTunes that I purchased when I had an iPhone that I would like to transfer. I take it I can't actually move music that I am streaming across?

 

[hallux]

Streaming, no. The challenge with the services, including Google play music, is that even if you download the music to your device for offline play it's stored in such a way that you can't move it to another device for play. This is done for drm purposes...

 

[Mikey1536]

cool. thanks for your help

 

[Rukbat]

Streaming from Apple Music is usually DRM protected, so you can't copy it.