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Title: Playing Apple-music Downloaded Files via JRiver (no sound)
Post by: fritsveer on November 19, 2018, 06:08:54 am

Hi All,

I have apple music (AM) and are able to download music off-line.
I managed to link JRiver to the folder and can see the downloaded music and songs (including Album art) in JRiver.
So-far I am unable to hear the songs albeit that I see the second counts of the songs. After approx 5 seconds JRiver moves to second song.
So in a nutshell, I can see the songs but not hear them. All other music is audible.

Q: Is their a way to make the play the AM music via JRiver?
What box do i tick to make the song audible?

Tested JRiver 23 sofar. not yet 24.

Thanks
Frits

Title: Re: Playing Apple-music Downloaded Files via JRiver (no sound)
Post by: Awesome Donkey on November 19, 2018, 06:13:31 am

Are the downloaded files DRM-protected? If so, it's likely only Apple Music and/or iTunes can play them.

Title: Re: Playing Apple-music Downloaded Files via JRiver (no sound)
Post by: fritsveer on November 21, 2018, 09:18:49 am

I honestly don't know, but seems a reasonable explanation.
I do understand (reading between lines) that no workaround is available?

Title: Re: Playing Apple-music Downloaded Files via JRiver (no sound)
Post by: JimH on November 21, 2018, 09:37:05 am

If you bought tracks in the last few years, there should be no DRM.

Try searching on Google for iTunes Match and DRM.

Title: Re: Playing Apple-music Downloaded Files via JRiver (no sound)
Post by: Awesome Donkey on November 21, 2018, 11:12:02 am

Since Apple Music's offline downloads are being used, there's probably DRM involved (which my research has also suggested). If the files have a .m4p extension, they have DRM.

I would be *highly* surprised if Apple's streaming service (Apple Music) didn't have DRM on the offline downloads. The potential of abuse (and piracy) would be incredibly high.

Title: Re: Playing Apple-music Downloaded Files via JRiver (no sound)
Post by: manzano804 on November 30, 2018, 06:41:29 am

Talking about iTunes and Apple music is there a way i can redirect the sound from it to a convolution filter i will be using with JRiver ?
Thanks

Title: Re: Playing Apple-music Downloaded Files via JRiver (no sound)
Post by: Awesome Donkey on November 30, 2018, 06:48:27 am

Only in Windows with the WDM driver.