Getting music off an iPhone onto an Android

[Feasty]

Can't be too difficult right? Chuffing wrong....

Recently decided to change my missus iPhone 5C to a Samsung A5, get away from all that useless inability to drag and drop stuff when connecting directly to a PC.
I hate iTunes, it's crap and have avoided it at all costs.

So she bought a few albums on her iPhone over the time she had it, now these want to be on the new phone so she can carry on listening to them.
I've tried an App called iFunbox which says it can help, but when it's installed it says I also need iTunes. I begrudgingly download this thinking it's just the once and then I can get rid forever.... but no, got an error message and it won't fully install.
Tried the fix of uninstalling everything to do with Apple, then reinstalling but keep getting the same problem. The laptop is only a couple of months old and fully up to date with Windows 10.

Anyone know of any alternate ways of getting music off an iPhone onto a PC, or will we just have to suck it up and re-buy the music online again?
Never again with Apple...
____________________
Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
(7 year gap), BMW F650 (Relaxing ride). Aprilia Caponord ETV1000 (Big and bold). Yamaha FZS600 (got me in trouble too quick!).
Current: Yamaha TDM 900 (Comfy, light but big, power when needed).

[owl]

sorry I know this isn't much help... but who buys music anymore?

I mean I never did, when I was younger I used to steal it, now I'm older I pay by subscription - Spotify.
____________________
Observation is the greatest source of wisdom.

[Feasty]

[owl]

[chris-red]

[owl]

for the cost of 1 album a month, I can listen to hundreds.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4080078?tstart=0
____________________
Observation is the greatest source of wisdom.

[Feasty]

[chris-red]

[dydey90]

File names are randomised, but ID3 tags are left in tact.

So if you play it using any halfway decent phone or program made after about 2006 then it will show the correct information.
____________________
This post is probably not serious and shouldn't be taken literally.
Past: CBR125,ER6f NINJA 650, ZZR600 Current: VFR750

[goto10]

[M.C]

What software is it running? A bit late now but this is why I jailbreak my devices, you never have to go near itunes again.

[P.]

Syncios.

I used that to rip an entire snapshot of a phone, pulled out the folders containing music, converted to MP3 in bulk and imported. ID3 dealt with names.

[panrider_uk]

[Ste]

It's much quicker and much simpler to just download the albums from your local torrent site instead of fucking around fighting to get the music off the iPhone.

And @ all the Spotify hatred when you haven't actually used it. Give the 30 day free trial a go and see why lots of people opt for Spotify.

[t121anf]

As said, if you sync back to a PC, get the files from the Apple random file system, then use a program like ID3 Tag-IT to tranfer tag data to file name, resort into folder if required.

Then when you go back from Android to Apple, click the button in iTunes that says "Fuck off Apple, I'm an adult I can sort my own music out, just scan it into your DB and leave the fuck alone"*

*not sure if this applies to bought music.

[fatjames]

+1 for spotify

[M.C]

[Ste]

I'm sure there are ways of recording the stream so you can steal the music from Spotify but it'd much easier to just download the albums (or their entire discography) from your local torrent website.

[M.C]

I guess so, although often I only want one track and not the whole album/disco Also the music's the same quality/levels etc.

[Ste]

Just had a look to see how much space Spotify is using on my computer and it's using 5GB.

Oh well.

[Feasty]

So I looked into Spotify over the weekend as I don't want to diss something I don't know much about.
And yep, I'd still steer clear.

Not worth me paying monthly when I'd pay less over a year for the albums I'd want on CD or downloadable from Amazon or somewhere. Plus once on Spotify, what if I decided to leave them - all the content gets blocked or deleted and I'm back to square one. It also doesn't let you have the same album on multiple devices, i.e some albums both my wife and I like but we don't want to use the same account and have all the same music on all devices.

Also, I tried Syncios but this won't work either - it states iTunes needs installing. but iTunes won't install, I've tried reinstalling several times and always come up with the same error. After extensive Googling and changing different settings, I've still got no further.

I've now given up, at least we've only lost about 5 or 6 albums purchased through Apple. Could be worse...
And this is also the reason for not going with Spotify or any of the other Streaming sites. At the end of the day, personally it suits me more to own the music, then I can do with it what I want.
____________________
Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
(7 year gap), BMW F650 (Relaxing ride). Aprilia Caponord ETV1000 (Big and bold). Yamaha FZS600 (got me in trouble too quick!).
Current: Yamaha TDM 900 (Comfy, light but big, power when needed).

[Ste]

If you no longer want to pay for Spotify then you account goes back to being a free account, the content doesn't get blocked or deleted. (well, you can no longer play stuff when offline but that's besides the point )

If you've got the paid membership then you can have the same music downloaded to three devices.

Meh, sounds like you're happier fighting against your iPhone, iTunes and Syncios with some extensive Googling for added fun.

"personally it suits me more to own the music, then I can do with it what I want"

Like you can with the music you've bought from Apple?

The good news is that you've still got three and a half weeks of your free Spotify trial left.

[Feasty]

[owl]

So still shitting on something you haven't even tried, right
____________________
Observation is the greatest source of wisdom.

[Feasty]