[Skooz]

Amazon does this. I buy almost all of my downloaded music there.

[jonno]

One tool for your mp3 toolbox:
https://ytmp3.cc/

[Seruzawa]

You can find most tunes on youtube. Then any one of several downloaders that will save the music as mp3.

[dgbrown]

I always have at least 2 hard drives with my tunes for redundancy. I do not stream music or store it on line. I suppose if you want to stream you could use one of those My Clouds. I do not like relying on 3rd parties for this stuff. I have over 2 weeks of music and losing it would be a bad thing.

[Arthur McGowan]

YouTube. Download with www.keepvid.com .

Convert to mp3.

[cicero2k]

I just switched computers. Apple requires that you import media to the “library”. It took a while to figure out, but it is frustrating and time consuming. This applies to photos also. The synchronization to phones and tablets further complicates.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

1. Backup your personal data and tunes weekly onto a separate external hard drive.

2. MP3va.com is cheap (10¢ per track) and saves all of the tunes you've purchased, forever, so you can download them again whenever you want...for free.

[discostu]

Best path is to do a search on “[service you use] convert to MP3” that will find you the tool you need to undo their “rental” model and get you into an ownership model. And you can probably fix the e-mail thing if you get with customer support, that’s what those secret questions are for.

[Vic S]

Use mp3fy.com (no length limit). I use it for podcasts as well as music. It’s a youtube downloader.

[Responsibility2nd]

I have lost all my tunes twice over the past several years; once through hard drive failure and once because I changed my email address. In both cases, because the suppliers require a specific login or download code, they were all lost.

I am looking for a service that allows you to buy a tune, download it to hard drive, and then have it available to you with no special code or login so I can simply put them on Windows Media Player.

 

If you keep repeating the same mistakes - you will keep getting the same problems.

The Cloud, my friend. The cloud is your answer.

And Amazon Prime is the best of the best.

[Mariner]

All music that has been downloaded sounds like sh!t.

Buy a CD, buy dozens or hundreds if you must.

There is no substitute for full-spectrum music.

Ahhh, to hear Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto in its full fidelity...
Or, Black Sabbath Paranoid as it was in the studio...

[P.O.E.]

I back up to DVDs. Not as often as I should, though.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

I store my music on a USB drive (inexpensive) as well as on my MS One Cloud storage.(15 GB at no cost.)

I also have my music on a removable SD card on my handset.

[deweyfrank]

later

[Vendome]

[GOP Poet]

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[philled]

For later

[Buffalo Head]

Thank you for asking a very common question.

[Gay State Conservative]

I have a music collection of about 5,500 songs.All but a few of them have been ripped (in WAV format) from CDs I borrowed from my regional public library alliance.I placed all of these songs on CD-Rs and then converted many of them into MP3 format for my car's USB input.

Granted what I did is far more time consuming (and not cheap...had to buy a number of blank CD-Rs) as downloading but now I have a CD-quality copy of 5000+ songs that I love,I can now listen to them in my car via a USB tumbdrive and I'll never lose them due to hard drive failure.

I'm very,*very* serious about music and that's why I went to all that bother.The less that music means to a person the less likely he/she is to take the route that I took.

[corlorde]

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