Why can't I burn music added from Apple music to disc?

Hi Karien,

I think you've got the answer in your last sentence. Apple Music is a streaming-only service that lets you listen to music from the iTunes Store on your various devices -- but nothing more than that. If your subscription expires, all that music goes away. I haven't signed up -- I like to own the music in my collection.

Cheers

karien1972 wrote:

I need to be able to burn albums I have to disc because I have a car that can only play CDs.

The Apple Music definitely does not meet your needs.

If all you had to do to own all the music on Apple's servers was pay a single month's Apple Music subscription of $10 and have a high-speed internet link and a huge hard drive, I think somebody would quickly be out of business.

The thing about the Apple Music files is they are strictly controlled in usage. You need Apple software to play them. You cannot do anything legal to make a permanent copy of them. They expire when your subscription expires. You are only renting them for the period of your subscription.

Naive you for not realizing if Apple were to provide unlimited access to the the tens of millions of tracks in its collection in a format that could be readily converted to a permanent file 2 billion people would sign up for one month, spend 24/7 downloading files, then cancel their subscriptions because they would already have all the music on a drive in a format with which they could do anything. Remember when reading web pages about features that it ias much what is not said that applies as much as what is said. If they don't say, "You can burn this to CD," don't assume you can until you see a line saying you can. Frankly you will find more about what you can and can't do by reading third party reviews than Apple's main Music page which is hype and as informative as the Oracle at Delphi.

I could air similar grievances to yours but in all honestly I have only ever spent $20 on something new from Apple (a Snow Leopard DVD last week) so can I blame them if they are not employing a stable of developers for my 13 year old computer? (All my computer purchases average about $100/year and all my computer have been second or third hand used.) The owners of old things tend not to be the big spenders on new items so they kind of fall low on the priority list from the perspective of a for-profit company..

My car is 34 years old. Not even a cassette player.

I just found out that some of my latest d/ls from iTunes are m4v files, which won't play in my car. The mp3 files I've d/led in the past will. i sent Apple an email over a wk ago about it and haven't heard diddly.

Needless 2 say, girlfriend here is NOT happy.

Violet, you can convert music files to .mp3 within iTunes if you want to.

Go to Preferences > General, click on Import Setings near the bottom, and set it however you like. Now select the tracks to convert, Control-click, and choose "Make MP3 copy" from the menu. Girlfriend happy!

A m4v is a video file. m4a is audio. Apple has never provided anything but aac/m4a audio format files. Your mp3s were either not downloaded from Apple or you had converted m4a to mp3 and forgotten doing so.