Q: I’m interested in downloading and install around 200 tunes from the internet, and also ultimately placing them on a USB drive. What’s the cheapest method to do that?
FRITZ MONICA, Minneapolis
A: The most affordable method is to buy the tunes instead of subscribe to an on-line streaming music service, even though the up front cash expense will be better.
Getting tracks (see tinyurl.com/3bx6nzup) commonly sets you back $1.29 each from the larger service providers such as Apple or Amazon (both market some songs for less.) If you multiply $1.29 by 200 songs, your one-time price would certainly be $258. A music registration from Apple or Amazon costs $120 a year– forever.
As soon as you have actually purchased tunes, adding them to a flash drive is not a problem, since the DRM (Digital Legal right Administration) software program that formerly limited track duplicating is greatly a distant memory. A lot of tracks are offered today in the global MP3 format that works with almost any type of music-playing tool. Apple offers tracks in the AAC format, but the iTunes or Music programs can transform the tunes to MP3 format (see tinyurl.com/8eh9f7ew and tinyurl.com/uk3mxamz). Note: iTunes tracks downloaded before 2009 are safeguarded by DRM; usage DRM removal software program to convert them to MP3s (see tinyurl.com/asbpekcs).
Q: I’m attempting to connect a Canon Pixma TS6420 printer to a Google Chromebook. The Chromebook appears to acknowledge the printer, yet absolutely nothing occurs when I publish. What’s wrong?
LIBBY NUNNELEE, St. Francis, Minn.
. A: Your printer works with your Chromebook. The issue may be that you’re trying to print using the “Google Cloud Publish” solution that was ceased in January. Cloud Print used your Google account to submit a print task to an online web server, which sent it back to your printer.
In the lack of Cloud Print, you can connect the Chromebook to the printer through your house Wi-Fi network (See tinyurl.com/77dyfa2b for basic directions. See tinyurl.com/vbvh6jas for an user-friendly tutorial.)
Q: The Google Play Music service for my Android phone was gone down previously this year (see tinyurl.com/3kvre9t9). Up until now, I’ve been able to keep utilizing the Play Music application by downloading an earlier version of it to my phone. Can I include a lot more tunes to my phone by syncing the old application to my laptop? Or do I run the risk of shedding the tracks I have now?
NORMAN FEIG, Bradenton, Fla.
. A: You possibly can not download more music to your phone, because your Google Play Music account details was to have actually been removed in February. That information was an essential component of an intricate download process: Google scanned the songs on your computer, matched them with identical tunes in its songs collection, then allowed its library tunes to be streamed or downloaded to your phone. Any tunes on your computer system that weren’t in the Google music library were uploaded to free Google online storage area and also shared with your phone.
It’s unlikely that this still works, as well as by attempting to download even more tunes you could shed the ones already on your phone. I recommend you obtain a different music application (see tinyurl.com/48b27pv5).