iTunes Music Library Guide

Growing Your iTunes Music Library - A Guide
By Glenn Wolsey

iTunes. No question, it’s the worlds best and most widely used music management application.

The main function of iTunes is to store your entire digital music collection. Some people have 200 tracks, others have 50,000. But where do people get all their music? People with bulging MP3 collections surely can't buy every track they own, so where do they get them?

In this article, we will go over some of the common, legal ways to obtain music, and give you that music collection you have always dreamed of!

Your original CDs

Yes, all that money you spent on CDs, all that time you spent collecting them, was worth it. Import all of your original music CDs into iTunes. This way you have the original legal copy of the album, and the ability to import at any sound quality. Original music CDs are still the most popular source of music acquisition.

The Public Library

When did you last go to the library? Chances are, you didn’t know that most libraries now have hundreds, if not thousands of CDs available for loan. Most are free! You might want to be careful with copyright infringements though. If you don’t delete the music from your computer when the CDs are taken back to the library, you could be in some big trouble with the RIAA.

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