Do I need iTunes to play music purchased on iTunes?

MegaDave91 · April 7, 2018

iTunes is the only distributor an album is available on, so I'd like to know whether I can delete iTunes once I own the music, or does Apple force it for music bought on there?

suchamoneypit · April 7, 2018

haha. Its Apple. Of course. The only place you can access it as far as I know is itunes itself.

read lower comments, "Unless things have changed (which to be fair is entirely possible) this is completely untrue. We have bought several albums from iTunes and you can then take those m4as or whatever you get and move, copy, and play them however you wish. There is no noticeable DRM."

MegaDave91 · April 7, 2018

Just now, suchamoneypit said:

haha. Its Apple. Of course. The only place you can access it as far as I know is itunes itself.

vanished · April 7, 2018

1 hour ago, suchamoneypit said:

haha. Its Apple. Of course. The only place you can access it as far as I know is itunes itself.

Unless things have changed (which to be fair is entirely possible) this is completely untrue. We have bought several albums from iTunes and you can then take those m4as or whatever you get and move, copy, and play them however you wish. There is no noticeable DRM.

suchamoneypit · April 7, 2018

11 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Unless things have changed (which to be fair is entirely possible) this is completely untrue. We have bought several albums from iTunes and you can then take those m4as or whatever you get and move, copy, and play them however you wish. There is no noticeable DRM.

Maybe it's changed, when I had my iphone I never saw anyway to download any of my music or play it anywhere other than itunes. Maybe its different when you're accessing it from a full computer.

vanished · April 7, 2018

3 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

Maybe it's changed, when I had my iphone I never saw anyway to download any of my music or play it anywhere other than itunes. Maybe its different when you're accessing it from a full computer.

>iPhone

I didn't realize that's how you had tried this. I don't doubt you experience then in the slightest, iPhones are the most locked down thing ever created. For the sake of clarity, I'll say that yes, we did this on a PC.