Exporting songs from iTunes?
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Yep, I'm sure that's the issue. You can download songs to devices and play them from the app so you don't use any data or need to be online, but you can't download them to a file storage device and play them without the app - I thought this might have been a way around that. Thanks again for the help.
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Yes. I have an iPod Nano. But for some reason only 12 of the 36 songs I have synced to it will show up on the bike. It's definitely an issue with the Boom reading them. If I plug earbuds into the iPod I can play all 36 songs.
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This certainly makes things interesting. My iphone will play all the songs in my playlist using itunes that I downloaded from apple music. Sooooo - what is the source of your 36 songs? If 12 of them that play were purchased from itunes or ripped from a CD and the other 24 came from apple music or another source I wonder if somehow the coding in the song won't let it play because the ipod isn't running the itunes app. I'm making a huge assumption here - I don't have an ipod so I assume it just acts like a fancy thumb stick with a few more features but perhaps it doesn't run apps? If so that would explain it acting just like my thumb drive did????
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Most of my tunes are from my CD's however I can purchase off of Amazon for example and then plug in the Ipod and it will sync with Itunes and put the new music in the Ipod, but I had the older version of the Harmon Kardon head unit.
I took it out 2 years ago though and replaced the head unit with a Sony blue-tooth and a biketronics amp and 7.1 speakers and it will stream Spotify for me my other go to source for tunes as well as play the Ipod.
Wouldn't be without tunes now for love nor money.
It makes the ride that much better and always has for that matter.
I took it out 2 years ago though and replaced the head unit with a Sony blue-tooth and a biketronics amp and 7.1 speakers and it will stream Spotify for me my other go to source for tunes as well as play the Ipod.
Wouldn't be without tunes now for love nor money.
It makes the ride that much better and always has for that matter.
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This certainly makes things interesting. My iphone will play all the songs in my playlist using itunes that I downloaded from apple music. Sooooo - what is the source of your 36 songs? If 12 of them that play were purchased from itunes or ripped from a CD and the other 24 came from apple music or another source I wonder if somehow the coding in the song won't let it play because the ipod isn't running the itunes app. I'm making a huge assumption here - I don't have an ipod so I assume it just acts like a fancy thumb stick with a few more features but perhaps it doesn't run apps? If so that would explain it acting just like my thumb drive did????
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I have songs on my thumbdrive (trying to replicate your issue) from CDs, hacked from Youtube as well as purchased music from Itunes. They all play on Itunes as well as on my bike.
All I did was copy and paste the music from inside Itunes to my thumbdrive. Literally that easy.
I wish I was able to replicate this and come up with a solution.
All I did was copy and paste the music from inside Itunes to my thumbdrive. Literally that easy.
I wish I was able to replicate this and come up with a solution.
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Thanks guys, I was able to get both ways to work, but found a couple of anomalies.
- I recently opened an apple music trial account and have downloaded 6 songs into a playlist just to test it out.
- When I did the export mode it only exported 5 songs, only 3 of which were from the playlist I made, the other 2 were songs I previously purchased. I wonder what happened to the other 3 songs.
- When I plugged the stick into the bike, only 2 songs would play - and they were ones that I had purchased from the regular itunes years ago - the bike only saw 2 songs, it was like the rest didn't exist.
- When I tried to play the stick from the computer I get an error message that the song wouldn't play because I wasn't signed into my apple music account. itunes then opened by itself and I was able to manually play the song.
- Don't take it the wrong way, I'm not trying to steal music, just was hoping to load up a stick and leave it in the bike because that's a hell of a lot cheaper than an ipod or phone if it gets stolen. no big deal, I guess I'm just stuck buying an ipod or running the app off my phone like I've always done with amazon prime in the past.
The free Studio audio converter is the one I use. Works great!
https://www.lifewire.com/free-audio-...ograms-2622863
Last edited by Gannicus; Apr 18, 2017 at 08:45 AM.