itunes archives available?

WillDockery

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Hello, at my friend Jack Snipe's house I watched as he ripped a disc of an obscure folk rocker who recently passed away (Henry Parker) onto his computer and ipad/itunes, and when finished, hit an "archive" button that seems to add the tracks and information onto an itunes database... can anyone give me information on this database, for example is this archiving made availabe on the internet, on itunes as a whole...

Basically how and why does it work, and who can access these archives?

My friend seems to say these tracks become available on Spotify, et cetera, but isn't really articulate enough to explain... is this correct, and is that significant to a non-itunes user?

Thank you!
 
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I can't find any record of iTunes having an "archive" button and I have never seen it on mine. My bet would be that he is using some program or app to rip, which allows him to upload to this "archive". It would not make them available on Spotify or Pandora or the like--these services acquire their music by means of licensing, are not reliant on user uploads as far as I know, and has nothing to do with iTunes. Most likely your friend is uploading his ripped music to some kind of private (or possibly public) database where other users can then download it--which, by the way is illegal. That's called piracy, and uploaders of such materials face much more punitive charges than downloaders.

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I can't find any record of iTunes having an "archive" button and I have never seen it on mine. My bet would be that he is using some program or app to rip, which allows him to upload to this "archive". It would not make them available on Spotify or Pandora or the like--these services acquire their music by means of licensing, are not reliant on user uploads as far as I know, and has nothing to do with iTunes. Most likely your friend is uploading his ripped music to some kind of private (or possibly public) database where other users can then download it--which, by the way is illegal. That's called piracy, and uploaders of such materials face much more punitive charges than downloaders.
 
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