Do you have to buy music from iTunes?

Answer 1

I think you should know the differences between iTunes and Apple Music.

1. iTunes is an one stop digital media store which is more than just a media player. You can purchase DRM-free songs from iTunes store. You should separately purchase the song you want.

2. Apple Music is a music streaming service using a monthly subscription model and it provides you access to songs instead of owning them. You should pay $9.99 a month.

In a word, if you want to own a song forever, choose to buy music from iTunes. But when the number is large, you need to costs a lot of money. Certainly, you can subscribe to Apple Music and you will get access to its vast music library and it has time limits, But you don't need to worry, you can install one TunePat Apple Music Converter to save songs in MP3 onto your computer before canceling your subscription.

Answer 2

No you don't have to buy music from the iTunes store. Music can be bought from any online music retailer. Some, such as Amazon, provide downloading software which automatically puts the purchased music into your iTunes library. You can also import music from CDs that you own.

Answer 3

First clarify the question.

There are two items with the words 'iTunes' that are used by Apple.

1. The iTunes Music Store. This is a web site. It provides media including podcasts, iTunes U lectures, TV shows, Music Videos, and many genre of music such as Classical and Rock. To use it you have to sign up and get an ID and password. You download music into the computer. Many media files are free. Many are not free.

2. iTunes, an application that plays the media in the computer, and puts it into the iPod. The media can come from any source that provides compatible formats:

Video File Formats

• QuickTime Movie (.mov)
• MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v)
• MPEG-1
• 3GPP
• 3GPP2
• AVI
• DV

Audio File Formats

• iTunes Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p)
• MP3
• Core Audio (.caf)
• AIFF
• AU
• SD2
• WAV
• SND
• AMR

The QuickTime Movie format supports audio or video tracks encoded using a variety of different codecs. QuickTime can play movies that use using the following codecs:

Video Codecs

• MPEG-4 (Part 2)
• H.264
• H.263
• H.261
• Apple ProRes
• Apple Pixlet
• Animation
• Cinepak
• Component Video
• DV
• DVC Pro
• Graphics
• Motion JPEG
• Photo JPEG
• Sorenson Video 2
• Sorenson Video 3

Audio Codecs

• AAC (MPEG-4 Audio)
• HE-AAC
• Apple Lossless
• MP3
• AMR Narrowband
• MS ADPCM
• QDesign Music 2
• Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP)
• IMA 4:1
• MACE 3:1
• MACE 6:1
• ALaw 2:1
• ULaw 2:1
• 24-Bit Integer
• 32-Bit Integer
• 32-Bit Floating Point
• 64-Bit Floating Point

QuickTime can be expanded to utilize additional media formats other than those listed above by installing additional QuickTime components.

Media can be imported into the iTunes application, sorted into playllists and automatically downloaded into the iPod. The iPod can act as a hard drive, and files can be saved on it. These files can not be played by the iPod media software. Playable media is put into the iPod media database by iTunes.

So, if you want to play it, put it into the iPod via iTunes application in the computer.

Answer 4

Yeah, the only two things you can use to get music for your iPod is iTunes or loading music from a CD onto your computer, then transferring it to your iPod.

Avoid file sharing sites like Limewire because exchanging music without paying royalties to the recording companies is illegal (copyright violation), and some people (even teens!) have been sued for downloading music from these places.

Answer 5

I'm not expert in this but be fed up with music transfer between iTunes and iPhone. So my suggestion is that do not use iTunes.

Instead find a brilliant way to put and transfer music from to iPod, iPhone, iPad without iTunes. You can get the full idea from:

http://www.kiwigeeker.com/music-transfer-wiki/add-music-pc-to-iphone-without-itunes.html

http://www.kiwigeeker.com/music-transfer-wiki/itunes-alternative-manage-music.html

Answer 6

You do not have to buy songs from the iTunes store. You can use songs from any source and use the iTunes software to manage the music on your iPod. Some retailers, such as Amazon, provide their own download software which will automatically add songs from Amazon to the iTunes library. Songs can also be imported from CDs that you own.

Answer 7

The iTunes store is an online music retail store. To download and keep music from the iTunes store you need to buy it. There are some free tracks that can be downloaded.