(Purchased music may need to be authorized with your Apple ID, however.) In contrast, Apple Music-branded subscription tracks are only downloadable and playable while you have an active Apple Music subscription cancel your subscription, and those tracks are rendered inert.You can check to see which songs fall under which categories on your Mac before downloading, and even organize them by type. Purchased, uploaded, and matched music remains yours forever after you've downloaded it - it can't be removed from your library or rendered unplayable. Use a service like Box or DropBox: See Share files with a cloud. Use iCloud: See Automatically keep your files up to date with iCloud. Quickly transfer files wirelessly: See Transfer files wirelessly with email, messages, or AirDrop. If you have some of those types of files on a work computer you're trying to consolidate to your home library, you'll need to manually move them to your other Mac. There are multiple ways to transfer your photos, videos, and other files between your iPhone and computer. It won't store items like PDFs or full uploads of WAV files you may have recorded, however. Of course, you could always go the old-fashioned route and buy physical copies of your favorite books, albums, movies and TV shows.ICloud Music Library stores music you've purchased on any device, uploaded or matched from your Macs, and any subscription content you may have downloaded from Apple Music. In order to keep your digital files forever, you can download them onto an external hard drive or upload them to a cloud service. Other Content may not be burned to disc." So if you buy a movie via the iTunes store or to stream on Amazon, for example, you're essentially buying a license to watch the film as long as it remains on the platform - you're not buying ownership of the file itself.Īs for music, as Apple states, you "may burn an audio playlist of purchased music to disc for listening purposes up to seven times.
But that's not the case for digital copies, as Apple's terms and conditions explicitly states. When you lawfully buy a physical CD, DVD or book, for example, the Copyright Act allows you to sell, lend or give away your copy, because you own it.
While the company promises that users won't lose content, it's a good reminder that digital files can come with quirky ownership rules.
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