• What about my music collection and Windows 10?

    Posted on June 23, 2016 at 11:30 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Good question from BY:

    I have been reading your book and i’m undecided about W 10. I have W7 SP1 and have lots and lots of music in Itunes and windows music player library and I am afraid I might loose it. How would I go from 7 to 10 without loosing all my music I have purchased and ripped?

    Thanks for any help you can give me on this.

    The key questions with Windows 10 are:

    > Are you willing to learn a new operating system, with a number of new features, that may or may not be appealing to you? I’ll be posting a full review and lots of feature details on the Win10 Anniversary Update, in InfoWorld in the coming month.

    > Are you willing to let Microsoft snoop on your actions, more than they do now? (We don’t know exactly what’s being snooped, but it appears to be roughly on a par with Google snooping, and arguably less intrusive than Apple snooping.)

    > Are you willing to let Microsoft take complete control of your machine? MS has already shown that it can take Win7 and 8.1 machines to town, with the “Get Windows 10” campaign. But in Win10, it’s considerably more difficult to keep patches at bay.

    As far as music… nowadays, that’s an easy problem. If you really want to hold onto your old ripped songs, my recommendation is to upload everything to Google Play

    https://support.google.com/googleplay/topic/6230690?hl=en

    With upload instructions here

    https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/4627259?hl=en

    You can upload up to 50,000 songs free.

    I use Amazon Prime music – because I’m already an Amazon Prime member. Details:

    http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,1639135,00.asp#

    A music collection is becoming something of a relic of a bygone era. Streaming has a lot of benefits. Good review of streaming music, and Slacker Radio in particular, in this PC Mag review:

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380776,00.asp

    Of course, there’s Spotify, Pandora, and many others. No guarantees that your particular songs are in any of the collections, of course, but if they are, you can get at those and a million others, on any device (PC, Mac, phone, tablet, tabletop speaker, intelligent washing machine) for $10/month or less, sometimes much less.

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