I got a brand new XR yesterday and I was filling it with my iCloud data when I got a popup message saying "Sign into iTunes store. Entire the password for your Apple ID: " but it was a random email that I'd never heard of. I clicked cancel, then it happened again, and again, and again at least 100 times. I have some music on my iTunes that was illegally obtained (someone else bought it and then uploaded it) and I then realized that these emails were the emails of the people who bought these songs/albums and uploaded them for free download. After 10 minutes or so, the popups stopped only to happen again this afternoon and now again in the early evening. I know it's not ethical but I have so much music in my iTunes from these emails, so is there any way to stop these popups without deleting my music? Thank you so, so much.
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iPhone XR New iPhone won't stop asking me to log into other Apple IDs
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You can convert those music into another format, such as flac (for real), then convert them back to m4a. That way, email info will be removed because flac does not support Apple ID fingerprint thing.
That’s what I have heard from someone and it should work theoretically. I never buy music from iTunes Store so I could not check myself.
That’s what I have heard from someone and it should work theoretically. I never buy music from iTunes Store so I could not check myself.
What about the "Create AAC Version" option? Will that work and work without messing with the audio quality much?
I recommend flac because it is a very popular format for lossless audio. That means it will less likely reduce the quality of the originals once converted. “Create AAC Version” on the other hand, runs the risk of still maintaining the purchase email in your converted music while losing the sound quality because of double lossy compression.
Ideally, the best method to remove such digital footprint is to convert them into wave format (wav files), but losing tags is too much of a hassle to deal with.
Gotcha. Is this a new security measure that I'm dealing with? Because I've never ever had this issue before, plus I'm still able to play the songs without a problem.
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I would speculate this is because of the Apple Music thing and its mechanism. It won’t stop you from playing the song, but such constant pop ups is part of the headache users have to deal with.
As such, I often opt for buying CD and ripping the song off the disc using software other than iTunes, such as EAC, then convert them into m4a format. That way, it will have no purchase info whatsoever and I can carry it with me anywhere I want, with or without iTunes.
Does going from a "Mastered for iTunes" purchased song and converting it to a regular m4a lose any of the song's quality? I did a test of this and a song went from 8.7mb to 8.5mb.
I believe this is probably from the time when the music in the iTunes Store was blessed with DRM. Apple changed this later on to offer mostly music without DRM in the store, but the old stuff might still be around.
If you check file type and Bitrate in iTunes or maybe the time this stuff was added to the local iTunes library, you should be able to remove these songs and only retain the ones you actually own.
Then of course try to get the not working ones in a different format if you want.
If you check file type and Bitrate in iTunes or maybe the time this stuff was added to the local iTunes library, you should be able to remove these songs and only retain the ones you actually own.
Then of course try to get the not working ones in a different format if you want.