This extensive support ensures that regardless of the platforms you’re switching between, your music library can be transferred with ease. The tool is designed to work seamlessly across these services ...

I just started my Apple Music trial, and it's asking me if I want to merge my (extensive, curated) local library with Cloud Music Library. What's the current consensus on whether this is advisable, ...

To my surprise, no, it's actual licensed music from big name record labels, including Sony. There's both a Freegal website and a mobile app from which you can browse, stream, and download music. It's ...

For a while now I’ve been using Google Music as a kind of cloud-based backup for my music library. Except that it wasn’t really a backup, because I couldn’t easily retrieve all the songs I’d uploaded.

iTunes is great at storing all your music and other media, but only if you let it. If, like one correspondent, you have a number of hard drives with old iTunes Media folders, you need to do some work ...

The music industry is racing towards streamed distribution, but many of us have built up sizeable music collections. I certainly have, and I spent weeks ripping my old CD library a few years back (and ...

If you’re like me, you’ve been using Google Play Music for a number of years to host your massive music library. Unlike a lot of people, I’m not interested in streaming services like Spotify or Apple ...

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Eventually, if you have enough tracks, music player apps will struggle to handle them all. This one is nearly future-proof.

Music collecting and appreciation is a deeply personal hobby. It’s something very important to me and serves as a snapshot of time and place. Over the years, most of us of a certain vintage have built ...