With Microsoft, that terrible monopoly according to the Starbucks crowd, there’s always a solution. With Apple, there’s always a roadblock.
Trying to move Mrs Charms’ iTunes files from the old computer to the new one requires a free utility called iTunes Export. So far so good. Which leads me to its compressed download which leads me to the alert that Stuffit needs to download its latest version which leads me to the news that this latest version, without which Export will not open, costs $49.99. I hate Apple.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Cue cute koala bear (voice of Howard Morris)-I hate Qantas-I mean Apple.
I should update it. I finally found a way to just load the files on a flash drive and move it to the new system. But then I had to download a new iTunes program to make them work. I still prefer Windows.
Make sure you have the Copy File to iTunes Folder checked when you import them. It’s under Preferences, Advanced tab. Otherwise, they don’t copy over, just get collated by iTunes.
And use amazonmp3.com instead of that iTunes store. A small blow to the empire, but a blow regardless.
I can’t find whether checked it, but I must have. It took an hour or more to load them all into the flash drive, then about ten minutes to unload them into the new system with its 8GB RAM.
OK, I found the file. Seems to be intact but Windows Media won’t play them. Maybe AmazonMP3 will. Well, all I can find is the downloader which, oddly enough, recommends sending new amazonmp3 downloads to, you guessed it, iTunes.
You buy music from amazonmp3.com to play in itunes, or any other software-based music player. itunes is for managing an ipod, first, and playing music on your pc second. Since i use an ipod for a portable music player, I have to use it. Since I have it, I use it to play music, too.
Well, I’m shocked. That’s a monopoly, Scott. The very thing liberals always claim to be against. Yet here is their favorite corporation, Apple, running a music-player monopoly. I actually had the Yahoo version originally and was surprised when it went out of business. Shouldn’t have been. Apple ate its lunch, not the other way around. Like you, I do buy music from amazonmp3 so I am at least doing my part to undermine this capitalistic octopus called Apple.