How can I keep music albums forever?

If you are buying the music with your iPhone you can keep it for as long as you want and move it to an Android device if you want to. You do not need to pay extra for that ability. Music bought from iTunes Store does not have any DRM protection on it preventing you from using it on any device you own.

Manage and back up your iTunes media library - Apple Support

While I don't believe I fully understood your question, that article will guide you on how you can archive your iTunes Library. I would recommend this to anyone really. So essentially, once you have whatever music you want stored in iTunes, that is how you can go about backing it up. Keep a few externals handy and never lose them. Music that you have purchased through iTunes will be associated with your Apple ID so if you should ever load that music on another computer, you will be asked to authenticate your ownership by way of your Apple ID and password that was used to purchase it in the first place if you want to play it.

iOSAndroidRebel wrote:

I have 5 Mac Pros stacked with 2 Editions. Does the Edition use music from your iPhone or manual?

Listen to music on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

You can load up your Apple Watch with music to play directly from the Watch, or you can just use your watch to navigate your music from the connected iPhone. Your Apple Watch has 8 GB of onboard storage, but the limit for Music specifically is 2 GB.

From there, you can select from your Watch to use the Watch as the audio source. That will require you to have a paired Bluetooth headset with your Watch. [again, paired to your Watch directly, not through your iPhone]

Buy CDs instead and rip them you your computer in MP3.

iOSAndroidRebel wrote:

I am just curious since I buy MP3s and put them in my iPhone, but I am curious of how to transfer them to my Note 5 and S7 Edge. Maybe I am gonna pay them at the Play store.

For that part of the equation, I have no experience.

iOSAndroidRebel wrote:

I have one phone number, and is buying music then transferring them to Samsung Galaxy Note 5 or S7 Edge illegal?

You may transfer music you've purchased from the iTunes Store to other devices you personally own. It's only illegal if you put them on someone else's device.

How did you work that out with you cell provider? How much does that cost per month?

No, it is not illegal. If you bough the CDs, ripped them, put them on your thousands of dollars of needless devices and then sold or gave away the CDs that would be illegal. I recommend the CD route since they are at much higher audio quality so they will sound better if you have good audio equipment at home and in your car.

You'll want your music files in MP3 or WAV format as well, not AAC, if you are going to move them onto a non-apple device. You'll run into less snags that way. You can go about this through iTunes preferences through CD Import options. After which, select your songs and right click for the option to Convert the file to whatever format you selected.

deggie wrote:

If the other devices support AAC or Apple Lossless there will be no snags. For top quality AIFF would be superior to WAV.

Agreed. .WAV would lose the least quality. I'm just not all that familiar with android, and suspected they might look at the file like it was alien.

iOSAndroidRebel wrote:

I use some headphones and speakers that each also cost over $5000. And, I am finding a 24TB drive and CD Drive, but I prefer Bluetooth and USB.

Make sure to buy 2 Apple Watch Editions for your pup too. One for each of their front paws. Contrary to popular belief, 4 will not be necessary.

Which speakers? $5,000 a pair or each? Which headphones, are they high quality that would work will with full quality music?

Bluetooth compresses audio you don't need to have audio at the highest quality. I'm not sure what Bluetooth and USB have to do with your 24TB drive (there is no such thing in a single drive) and CD Drive. The Superdrive connects to your iMac via USB.

deggie wrote:

I take it from one of your previous posts that you know that he doesn't have any of these items?

😁 sometimes it's just a laugh to play along to see how deep the rabbit hole will actually go

No, you said you have 2 Watch Edition so I guess you wear one on each hand. And back when you started this you said you were going to buy $200 to $300 worth of music that you wanted to keep until you were 80.

deggie wrote:

No, you said you have 2 Watch Edition so I guess you wear one on each hand. And back when you started this you said you were going to buy $200 to $300 worth of music that you wanted to keep until you were 80.

One to track his health information while he sleeps, and the other for during the day of course =).

In all seriousness, since we got on the subject of audio equipment, I highly recommend giving the RHA T20i a listen. I have never been in love with a set of earphones like I am with these.

An Ultimate Ears and Grado fan myself but I had just read a blog review of these. Not sure they have a dealer in the US yet. Lately I have been going the cheap route for BT headphones from ME Electronics.