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Pastimes : Apple Product Help -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Green who wrote (5540)	6/30/2020 4:21:31 PM
From: greg s	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6556

Hi Don, What eventually became Windows 8 was the catalyst for me to move to a MacBook and Mac OS. I'm an Intel retiree and used Windows from the beginning. Owning an Apple platform was out of the question when they used a Power PC CPU. Then Apple moved to Intel CPU's and later MicroSquish introduced Windows 8. In my opinion, the worst POS OS ever put on the market. In 2013, I moved to Apple and never looked back. I don't know if my old Windows platforms will even boot any more. So, I'm in the same situation as you. I miss the functionality of iTunes and would like to manage my music like I used to. I listen to a lot of Bluegrass and Roots music, so I have probably 5,000 - 6,000 songs loaded into iTunes.

To: Don Green who wrote (5540)	1/3/2025 8:56:28 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	1 Recommendation Recommended By Don Green Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6556

> When I asked my son a Major Mac user he told me Spotify! lol! young people no longer buy music, they just rent it via streaming service Good luck with that when there is no internet available. I've heard may stories about kids taking road trips using streaming who lose access to their tunes when no cell towers are around and don't have satellite access either (like when spelunking or something). Does Spotify have an option with their paid version to download files temporarily to their devices, like Netflix allows with their streaming videos? > I guess I would to if I hadn't already invested in 500-1000 CDS over the years My 23-year-old niece loves CDs and had a cool modern single disc vertically mounted player in her room. There are a lot of knockoff modern devices with modern takes on vintage gear, like copying the designs of Sony's portable Walkman CD player, but in very stylish ways. How about this wood grain version from KLIM? CD's are becoming collective again by vintage media collectors and hipsters, just like vinyl has been for many years now.