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Possible to transfer songs from iTunes (on Mac) to Android phone?

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I have a significant music collection on my computer, which I am still frequently adding to. While the songs I've downloaded in the last several years are all DRM free (either downloaded for free or on iTunes post-DRM), I have many songs from the iTunes-DRM era. I use an iPhone as my phone almost exclusively for this reason (to use DRM-laced songs). Recently I have become disillusioned with iPhones and am considering switching to one of the new Google Pixel phones. However, my biggest hangup is still being able to store all my music on my device. Now that Apple Music is available for iPhone, I was thinking it might be possible to access all my music on an Android phone--but I can't figure out conclusively if this will work. I have checked this official Apple page : > From your own collection > To add music that you imported from CDs, or bought from the iTunes Store or other sources, use iTunes on a Mac or PC. Make sure that you have the latest version of iTunes. > 1. Open iTunes. 2. Sign in to the iTunes Store with the same Apple ID that you use on your Android phone for Apple Music. 3. Turn on iCloud Music Library and wait for iTunes to finish updating your library. > Any music that you add to iTunes after you turn on iCloud Music Library will be available in Apple Music on your Android phone. However, I would like to avoid having to upload all my music to the iCloud Music Library (don't want to have to deal with that when I really just want to offload music straight from my computer to my device using a USB cord). **Can I transfer songs from my computer (Mac) to an Android phone that has Apple Music (or maybe some other software?) using a wired connection, _without_ having to upload everything to iCloud? If so, will this work even for iTunes-DRM-laced songs?** If iCloud is the only option, I will probably cave and do this, but only if it will work with _all_ my songs (from iTunes-DRM, iTunes-non-DRM, non-iTunes), and if I don't have to pay to store my songs on iCloud (again, I don't need to be able to access them from anywhere, just my computer and a single Android phone). Similar questions have been asked before, but are all out of date (3-6 years old).: - https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1351/android-and-itunes - https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/6062/can-i-play-drm-music-from-itunes-on-my-android - https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/55199/how-do-i-get-this-itunes-song-on-an-android-device
Asked by spacetyper (439 rep)
Oct 4, 2016, 04:19 PM
Last activity: Oct 1, 2020, 08:04 PM