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I'm constantly getting annoyed that music is treated differently on my iPhone than any other type of media. As a musician in an active band, I'm frequently wanting to send out our tracks or demos to each other and to others, on the fly. But because of copy protection, the iPhone locks down the music library. I guess I could buy that except that my Android friends tell me it's not the case with their devices! What the hell? So why is Apple bound to strict paranoid copy protection rules, and Google isn't?

Thankfully, I was able to nab Song2Email before it was pulled from the App store. It's nice that I can use email to send tracks, but it just bothers me that they've been so tight about it for everyone else, like my bandmates. I mean, they already can lock down their own protected music files, and I'm cool with that. But I own the rights to this music, I have the right to send it around. Yes, I could load it into some third party app, but I'm already maxed out on space (with a 32GB, no less), and I just can't waste space.

Hope this eventually changes.

I don't understand... ITunes doesn't put any kind of DRM on tracks that you create or rip from CD... just tracks purchased from the iTunes Store, right?

I haven't tried it with e-mail, but I can upload self-created MP3s from my iPad to my website via FTP, and they will stream or download on the other end A-OK.

I thought iTunes downloads haven't been copy protected for a while now.

iTunes or Music (on IOS) has no share option, and in IOS Mail, Messages, etc. there is no facility for attaching an audio file from the music library. It's understandable that Apple would agree with copyright owners to do this, even if it is annoying if you want to put you own tracks in iTunes and then share them. There are simple alternatives.

This might be a solution:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itransf ... 24643?mt=8

bayswater wrote:iTunes or Music (on IOS) has no share option, and in IOS Mail, Messages, etc. there is no facility for attaching an audio file from the music library. It's understandable that Apple would agree with copyright owners to do this, even if it is annoying if you want to put you own tracks in iTunes and then share them. There are simple alternatives.

Right. But it's no big deal to drag the song to the desktop from iTunes right? Can't remember, but I think years ago Apple abandoned DRM?

James Steele wrote:

bayswater wrote:iTunes or Music (on IOS) has no share option, and in IOS Mail, Messages, etc. there is no facility for attaching an audio file from the music library. It's understandable that Apple would agree with copyright owners to do this, even if it is annoying if you want to put you own tracks in iTunes and then share them. There are simple alternatives.

Right. But it's no big deal to drag the song to the desktop from iTunes right? Can't remember, but I think years ago Apple abandoned DRM?

Correct and correct. But I think the original problem was doing this with IOS. I don't know how you would do this easily with IOS.

bayswater wrote:

James Steele wrote:

bayswater wrote:iTunes or Music (on IOS) has no share option, and in IOS Mail, Messages, etc. there is no facility for attaching an audio file from the music library. It's understandable that Apple would agree with copyright owners to do this, even if it is annoying if you want to put you own tracks in iTunes and then share them. There are simple alternatives.

Right. But it's no big deal to drag the song to the desktop from iTunes right? Can't remember, but I think years ago Apple abandoned DRM?

Correct and correct. But I think the original problem was doing this with IOS. I don't know how you would do this easily with IOS.

This app purports do be able to do it

Woah, great find! I know that Apple USED to have a stipulation in their App store policy against any kind of transfer access to the music library. A few things have fallen through the cracks, like Song2Email, but they were usually stricken from the store with lots of big bad warnings to other developers. Maybe their policy has changed though.

And I wasn't aware that DRM had been removed from iTMS. Up until last year, the majority of songs I've downloaded from iTunes come up as "Protected AAC". But my guess is that it's a slow changeover, after all, all the original song providers have to go back and voluntarily "un-DRM" their files... Apple's not going to take the time to do it for them.

Wonderful news that it has been dropped though. Last I heard, it was on a voluntary basis.