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How do you burn a disc from Amazon Music

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First off I am not a Techie.

I have created playlists on Amazon Music that I want to burn to discs and send to friends.
I have a Mac.
Before it was easy to burn a playlist from iTunes but I don’t know how to transfer from Amazon
to iTunes. Its doing my head in so any assistance here is greatly appreciated.

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  2. Is that music that’s on Amazon’s server or actually there on your computer?
    I don’t use Amazon Music or iTunes, but if Amazon Music’s anything like Spotify then they don’t want you burning stuff to CD from their server so you have to do it in a roundabout way, download it first and import it to your iTunes library or use something like Audacity to create files, which you can then add to your library and burn to CD.

  3. If you are streaming songs as part of a subscription then you can’t realistically do it. If it is music you have bought from Amazon as mp3s then you must download them to a local area which you can then include in iTunes and burn in the same way.

    • Nothing to do with iTunes or mediamonkey but the fact that you are paying for a streaming service. You don’t own these files and cannot play them outside the application, access the files to burn them to CDs or copy them outside the app.

  5. Amazon music that you haven’t paid for, will only play using the Amazon app. If you have paid for it, you need to download it onto your pc( I don’t know about apple stuff, but assume it’s the same) and burn the same way as you’ve done before.

    The only other way is to actually record the music playing in real time using Audacity for example, but you’re going to lose a lot of qualty.

    I think what I have just typed mostly is up there already.

  6. If it is ‘Your’ music you want to download, do the following
    In your browser, navigate to the Amazon website
    Log in to your account
    To the right of the search bar it says ‘Hello [your name] Accounts and lists
    Point your mouse at this
    in the drop down menu find ‘Your Music’ and click on it
    This will launch Amazon Music
    At the top of the page find ‘Library’, point your mouse at it and click ‘Music’ from the options
    On that page, look to the top of the screen and find ‘Purchased’ in the second row down, click on it
    All of your purchased music will now be displayed as individual tracks – [to download a complete album skip to the next para] – to download a single track look to the far right where you will see three dots …
    click on the dots
    from the drop down menu click ‘Download’ [you may then be shown a message suggesting that you use their app and giving you two options ‘Download songs here’ or ‘Get The App’ choose which one you prefer, I picked Download songs here.
    You will then be asked ‘do you want to allow downloads’ or something similar, click ‘allow’, your download will begin
    [If it is a single track it will [mine does, anyway] begin to play in iTunes]

    If you wish to download a complete album do this –
    Your music is displayed as individual tracks in a long list, underneath the name of each track will be the album name from whence it came – click on the album name
    You should then see the album artwork, the name of the album and some information about it [how many tracks, time, etc] below this info is a load of symbols, to the right of these are three dots …
    click on the dots
    from the drop down options click ‘Download’
    The album will download
    It will be placed in your Downloads folder, in a folder with the name of the album
    Find it and drag it into iTunes
    Done.

    If it’s not your music, see options from other replies, above.

      • Find a Mac version next to the Whelk stall. Works on Spotify too says my friend who apparently sends his playlists on CDs each Christmas to his mates. Quite what his mates do with the CDs is a mystery as he is pretty sure none of them have a cd player anymore..

        • Whilst it’s obviously illegal I hardly think sending half a dozen mates a cd is going to kill music. If anything the opposite – maybe one of those mates might think “That Jimmy Boo & The Boo Boos is a great track, must find out more”.

          • Well yeah, it is ok if I do it but if thousands of others think the same then we have problems. Similar to ignoring Covid rules, many think it is ok for them to do it, as that can hardly matter in the large scheme of things …

              • Gift your friends a month’s premium Spotify subscription (maybe 1st month is free anyway?) and share loads of playlists with them. All this other stuff is finding solutions to problems that don’t really exist in these technologically advanced times.

                    • Yeah. I think that horse left the stable some years ago.
                      People who don’t see music as particularly important don’t even buy the odd CD at a petrol garage anymore. They stream and they barely pay attention to what they’re streaming.
                      Collectorists collect, but sadly it’s mostly the music of people who are already rich from the ’70s – ’90s boom that they collect.

                  • Sure he prefers 37 quid to nothing. A billion streams is where he needs to be these days to make anything. Burning CDs is so last century, they probably won’t have anything to play them on anyway and the postage would buy the Spotify subscription probably

                    And if Numan wants to do better he should make better music 😉

                    • Let’s give this up, shall we? An artist “selling” a million streams gets paid £37 and you are chastising me for sending some mates CDs ripped from Spotty? I already mentioned elsewhere these mates most likely don’t have a CD player anymore (who does apart from a handful of boring old farts who probably talk to each other on a forum somewhere?)

                    • Do what you like but don’t promote illegal software on a public forum that could allow others to steal money from artists. Yes, it is a ridiculous pittance, but it is all some of them have right now with no gigs going on.

                      (and you should get around $3000 for a million streams not 37 pounds)

                    • Dai – first you chastise me as nothing more than a thief and then, even worse, you insinuate Gary Numan is a liar. Feel my glove on your cheek, sir and see you at dawn

  12. I’m having a similar problem with Youtube Music. Spotify didn’t launch in ireland same time as in the UK and I had just got an Android phone, so signed up with their Google Play Music service. I uploaded my entire library (the broadband bill that month was on the high side) and for years I could stream all my music, free gratis and for nothing. They then offered a Spotify like service that for a tenner a month you could stream stuff you didn’t own as well, and I got that, so I had access to my own stuff I’d uploaded, bootlegs etc (and all could be downloaded as mp3s as well).

    Now they’ve mothballed Google Play Music and moved all of us over to Youtube Music. Is there – does anybody know – a similar way to download MY OWN STUFF from there…the service acknowledges stuff is ‘uploaded’ but seems that it’s a one way street…

    Thankfully I’ve still *got* my music in hardform CDs but it’s a pain to go up the attic these evenings…

      • Thanks for that; it looks like whacking a sledgehammer with a nut but it’s probably a good idea to get myself an external drive and do the necessary one of the days…

        *edit*

        Yipes “A list of the tracks, playlists, radio stations, uploads and purchases in your Google Play Music library, as well as your playback and search history.”…might be only the raw data. Will see anyroad

        • Too late for Google Export once the files have gone over to YT music and been deleted from Google Play. I tried it and go an exclamation mark.

          I went through the same process – transferred what’s know in the trade as a shitload of music, it took days for everything to go over. At some point I was persuaded to start a YT Premium subscription because I thought I’d have trouble accessing the music without it. Turns out that wasn’t necessary, so I’ve cancelled that.

          I find that YT Music works fine on desktop (in browser) and on the Phone (there’s an app). Not really different from Google Play, tbh, once you’ve drilled down to your library. The main annoyance, apart from not being able to download it again, is Sonos, which only gives you the first 100 albums.

    • After several happy years of using Google Play, when it closed in favour of YouTube (which has much less flexibilty and playability than GP) I moved to iBroadcast.

      ATM – Google Play RIP. What next?

      It was a matter of a few days to upload the 38900 tracks (so few, I know), but I haven’t looked back.

      It’s great – there doesn’t seem to be a limit to the number of devices you can host your cloud collection on, there are myriad ways of displaying and sorting your music and you can download your tracks.

      • I was about to quibble about “lugging around a Terrabyte hard drive and plugging it in”, as I have three Maxtor M3 portable 4TB USB3.0 hard drives for my media storage (one in constant use, two backups) that are 120x83x20mm in size, extremely light and don’t need external power bricks when plugged into a laptop.
        When I bought mine a few years ago they were a little under £90 each but they seem to cost nearly double that currently. Have hard drive prices in general gone up that much?

        • Yes, I have all my music on about 3 of them (2 being backups) there is a further backup of still owning the original CDs. I have uploaded to the “cloud” a while back but don’t really use that. Would only really be of use in the car or when travelling otherwise and I can easily copy what I need to my phone, Fiio or a USB stick to plug into the car and then there’s Spotify.

          • This is what I’ve done. One 1Tb SDXC – just a terabyte, what a lightwieght – permanently plugged in to me laptop which is the “server”, and one in me Fiio as “backup”.

            Hardly onerous in space terms, and they were only £140 each.

            • You get 2 or 3 CD quality Flac albums in 1GB (or one of those 79 minute CDs stuffed with duff ‘bonus’ tracks). So 1TB is 2,000-3000 CDs.

              For Hi-Res you can divide that by a half (or even worse).

              I’ve just bought a 16TB HDD for my NAS, having filled a 6TB drive (with a mixture of Flac, Hi-Res and HD video).

              Turns out my NAS is limited to 14TB capacity (by OS) by I’ve had to change the whole thing after about 5 years. The new one can take up to 104TB of drives, so I’ve hopefully left enough space for a decade. I hate having to do IT in my free time.

              • In a attempt to take the ‘dullest of the day” crown, I have my music / movies / data stored on a number (well 5 actually) of DAS / NAS drives……..

                Attached to the MacMini (which acts as an iTunes / Roon server) is Drobo with 5x 10TB HDD (giving approx 36TB usable space) which holds most of my media. I also have another DAS with the same 5x 10TB configuration that is used as an exact backup of the prime DAS. Both are approx 80% full.

                DAS number three only has 4x 10TB HDDs (total 27TB usable space) which holds archived media, BD rips and various other media files. It’s about 70% full.

                Added to that are two NAS units that each have 5x 4TB HDDs (total 14TB usable each) which hold various data, photos etc etc.

                I must have 20 or so external HDDs kicking around the house with sizes from 500G to 5TB. Not sure what is on most of them……

                I used to work for Seagate, so am paranoid about having backups of all data (I’ve mentioned this before on here…..).

                One further tip – if you are buying internal HDD for your NAS / DAS units, make sure that you get HDDs that are designed for (and labelled as such) for NAS – a few years ago, HDDs moved to what is known as ‘shingled recording” whereby the data tracks are partially overlaid (like a shingled rooftop and allows more data to be stored) which means when the data is written, it has to rewrite the adjacent tracks also – this is fine for normal computer usage, but doesn’t always play nice with NAS firmware (which spreads the data around for protection).

                • Crikey, Chris. I think I need to hand over my crown…

                  PS I bought a Seagate ‘Enterprise’ 16TB drive (listed on the NAS ‘compatible’ webpage). I hold you personally responsible.

                  • If it’s classified as Enterprise then it should be fine – it’ll be either the Nytro (for cloud storage) or Ironwolf Pro (optimised for NAS). It’s the Barracuda class drives you have to watch out for.

                    Btw – even though it’s enterprise class, has a longer warranty (5 yrs if I recall) and is tested to be more reliable, do not assume it will never fail….. always have a backup etc etc….

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