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Legally Buy & Download Music Easily - Is it even possible any more?
tomos:
FWIW for anyone else wanting to own their music (on android) bought with amazon music:
I have the amazon app installed *and* the amazon music app. I think they forced me or tricked me at some stage to install their music app. You may be better off without this -- I dont know. In the amazon music app, initially at least, they keep steering you towards amazon music or unlimited or whatever they call their music service.
There's a setting in the music app "Automatic downloads" which once ticked will download your purchases to the following path:
/Android/media/com.amazon.mp3
in my case it's on the SD card -- YMMV
The music will download, in my experience though it can take a long time after purchase before it actually shows locally in the com.amazon.mp3 folder.
Next problem is they chuck all the files you buy in the same folder -- no sub-directories. You might have ten files from ten different albums all starting
01 - [tracknamehere].mp3
I installed X-plore, an android file manager recommended by Tuxman. It's sort of a two pane manager, with one pane pinned on the side. If you copy/move from one pane, the destination will automatically be the other pane.
On this side, the default amazon directory (unfortunately took the screenshot after relocating everything from the folder)
Legally Buy & Download Music Easily - Is it even possible any more?
Pressing the arrow on the top-left corner with show the other pane:
Legally Buy & Download Music Easily - Is it even possible any more?
On this side, the path is Music/Linda Ronstadt/Live at etc. showing music I have moved from the amazon folder.
So, my relocating is done, for now. Next step clean the kitchen :P
EDIT// in retrospect, it's not that difficult once you have a good file manager app to 'reclaim' the music -- but the whole experience (also with the music app constantly steering me away from my bought music) just pissed me off so I tried to find an alternative....
superboyac:
a nifty solution that i just found out about, that i have tried the past week and works very smoothly....
instead of actually storing the files on your mobile device, you can stream it from your own computer, but you have to install something called Airsonic. then, for android, you use the app D-sub to play the music. It works very well. The Airsonic install on windows is a tad challenging, but other than that, all good.
now, you might ask, why not use other easier streaming locally solutions like plex or emby? because they are not as good, as in, so many playback issues and buffering problems and flat out connection problems. this airsonic/dsub thing is extremely reliable.
superboyac:
i noticed my reply was somewhat off topic as to how to get high quality music.
my preferred way is to buy used cd's and rip them losslessly to my computer. otherwise you probably have to spend around $10 minimum for the music (per album).
also, i don't know how legal they are, but there are a lot of nice old vinyl rips out there of things not readily available on modern formats. i wonder if those are safe to download.
rjbull:
I installed X-plore, an android file manager recommended by Tuxman.-tomos (January 21, 2020, 11:10 AM)
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A sound recommendation - that's my default one on Android.
It's sort of a two pane manager, with one pane pinned on the side. If you copy/move from one pane, the destination will automatically be the other pane.
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Pressing the arrow on the top-left corner with show the other pane:-tomos (January 21, 2020, 11:10 AM)
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Have you enabled automatic screen rotation (or whatever its called) on your device - i.e., when you turn your phone/tablet from vertical (portrait) format to horizontal (landscape) format, it turns the text to match? If you do, you'd see X-plore present itself in the usual Norton Commander-style two-pane clarity. This 'one pane in vertical format, two panes in horizontal format' behaviour seems not uncommon in Android two-pane file managers, at least, Ghost Commander and Solid Explorer both do it. Total Commander is slightly different. It defaults to the same scheme, but there's a configuration option to force two panes even in vertical format. In that case, they're very narrow, of course.
tomos:
Have you enabled automatic screen rotation (or whatever its called) on your device - i.e., when you turn your phone/tablet from vertical (portrait) format to horizontal (landscape) format, it turns the text to match? If you do, you'd see X-plore present itself in the usual Norton Commander-style two-pane clarity.-rjbull (January 22, 2020, 11:41 AM)
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no, I didnt know that -- I usually use portrait and didnt think on this occasion to rotate. Thanks for the tips rj :up:
there are a lot of nice old vinyl rips out there of things not readily available on modern formats. i wonder if those are safe to download.
-superboyac (January 21, 2020, 06:31 PM)
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FWIW vinyl rips are often the best quality music videos on youtube. I have downloaded vinyl rips of The Smiths (not from YT, but linked from there) -- presumably illegal to do (not only) cause the music still available to purchase... Yeah, safety is another issue....
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