can you download itunes on android phones Can I play music from iTunes on an Android phone? (reader mail) Kim writes: I am debating whether to move from my beloved iPhone to Android as it’s time to upgrade. Can still use music I bought on iTunes with an Android phone? Also, I bought TomTom’s satellite navigation app for my iPhone at a staggering $40 and I assume that I can’t use that, either. Have you any advice? Hi Kim! Well, I’ve got good news and bad news for you. The good news: yes, you should be able to transfer most—but, potentially, not all—of your iTunes music to your Android phone. The bad news: nope, your old iPhone apps won’t play nice with Android. First, let’s tackle your tunes—and specifically, why some of the tracks you bought on iTunes might not work on an Android phone. Until just a few years ago, Apple only sold copy-protected music on iTunes, and those DRM-protected tunes (“DRM” stands for “digital rights management,” by the way) will only play on devices (like your Mac, PC, or iPhone) that are authorized by your iTunes Store account. Starting in 2009, Apple reversed course and began selling “DRM-free” (or “iTunes Plus“) tracks on iTunes that will play on practically any digital music player—including, yes, Android phones. What does that mean to you? Well, if you bought any music on iTunes prior to 2009, there’s a chance you still may have some copy-protected music in your iTunes library. You can spot them by looking for the telltale “M4P” extension at the end of the file name—for example, “In Your Eyes.m4p.” So, what can you do if you’re stuck with copy-protected iTunes music? Well, two (legal) things. You can pay 30 cents a track to convert your copy-protected music to the Android-friendly iTunes Plus format. Click this link, and you’ll jump to a list of songs in your iTunes library that are eligible for conversion. Sign up for iTunes Match, a $25-a-year service that scans all your iTunes songs and quickly “matches” them with high-quality, copy-protection free music in iCloud. If iTunes Match manages to “match” any of your copy- protected M4P songs, you could just re-download them from iCloud to get a DRM-free version. Now, let’s say you’ve dealt with any copy-protected songs in iTunes. How do you move them to an Android phone? No, iTunes won’t sync your music to an Android phone, but there are other ways to transfer your songs. Connect your Android phone to your PC or Mac with a USB cable, then just drag and drop music files from your system’s hard drive to your phone’s Music directory. Then, launch the Google Music app on your Android phone, and voilà—your tunes will be there. (Note: Some Android phones, like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, won’t pop up on your Mac desktop when you connect the phone’s USB cable; luckily, Google offers a free utility that’ll help transfer songs and other files from your Mac.) If the Android phone you pick has a slot for those itty-bitty microSD memory cards, you could transfer your songs to the memory card and then snap the card into your phone. (Note: You may need an adapter to plug a microSD memory card into your PC or Mac.) Use a third-party program to sync your iTunes playlists. One of the most popular is called DoubleTwist, which has the added virtue of being free; there’s also a paid version, called AirTwist, that’ll wirelessly sync your iTunes music to your Android handset. Upload your songs to Google Play Music , a free digital music “locker” in the cloud. Once all your music is uploaded, you’ll be able to stream them to your Android phone using the Google Music app. Keep in mind, though, that uploading all your songs to Google Music could be a lengthy process—as in days or even weeks. Read more… Amazon has its own music locker, called Amazon Cloud Player, that will quickly “scan and match” your songs just like iTunes Match does. Once your music is all matched, you can stream or download your tunes to your Android phone using Amazon’s MP3 Android app. The catch? You’ll have to pay a $25-a-year fee to “scan and match” more than 250 tracks to Cloud Player. Now then, what about your iPhone apps? Like I said before, no—you can’t take your iPhone apps with you if you switch to Android. Of course, there are plenty of Android versions of popular iPhone apps available in the Google Play app store, some of which you’ll find in my list of 15 must-have Android apps. Unfortunately, TomTom’s iPhone navigation app isn’t one of them. That said, word is that an Android-friendly TomTom app is said to be coming soon. Also, consider using Google Maps Navigation, a powerful—and free—GPS navigation app that offers turn-by-turn directions. How to convert ringtones from itunes to android phone? "Hi there, can you transfer iTunes ringtones to Android smartphones? I have quite a few wonderful ringtones in iTunes and would like to add these iTunes ringtones to Android smartphone but have no idea how to do this. When I directly add iTunes ringtones to Android smartphone, I was told I can't do this. What's wrong? Can you get ringtones from iTunes to Android devices?" People who have switched from iPhone to Android smartphone, or those who have both iPhone and Android smartphone devices, sometimes might want to transfer their ringtones from iPhone or iTunes to Android devices. Some others might even purchase ringtones within iTunes library for their Android devices. But they often meet some kind of problems in transferring iTunes ringtones to Android smartphone. Well, if you happen to want to know how to get iTunes ringtones onto Android smartphone, this guide would be helpful to you. We will show you effective solutions on how to transfer iTunes ringtones to Android phone with different tools. Part 1: Brief Introduce to iTunes and iTunes Ringtones. To solve the ringtone transfer error from iTunes to Android, firstly let us take a simple look on iTunes and iTunes ringtones. As we all know, iTunes is a comprehensive management center of Apple’s digital entertainment. It’s a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application. People could purchase movies, TV shows, videos, music, audiobooks, games, and various other things within iTunes. As to iTunes ringtones, Apple has provided various kinds of ringtones in different genre for you to download and purchase. Also, iTunes allows you to turn the music you have purchased from iTunes and added into iTunes into ringtones for iPhone and iPad. Also, iTunes could help you sync ringtones from iTunes to iOS devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod, though the iTunes sync will erase existing files on iOS device. And one thing that needs mentioning is that all iTunes ringtones are DRM protected, which means you could only use the iTunes ringtones within Apple’s own products like iTunes, iPhone, iPad and iPod. The DRM protection prevents iTunes ringtones being used on other devices such as Android devices. Therefore, if you want to transfer iTunes ringtones to Android device, you have to remove the DRM protection first. That’s what we are going to talk about in the following content. Part 2: How to Convert iTunes Ringtones to Android with Prof. DRM. Speaking of iTunes ringtone music DRM removal, Leawo’s Prof. DRM is the best choice you could get online. Performing as a professional iTunes music DRM removal and converter program, Leawo Prof. DRM could help you easily remove DRM protection upon iTunes music and ringtones, and then convert DRM protected iTunes music and ringtones to DRM-free MP3, AAC, FLAC and other audio files for using as Android ringtones. You need to download and install Leawo Prof. DRM on your computer, and authorize the computer by signing in with your Apple ID to play the music file or ringtones purchased or rent for converting to Android. During the iTunes DRM removal process, you are not allowed to open iTunes. Step 1. Import iTunes M4P music to the program. After entering the main interface of Leawo Prof. DRM, click the “Add Files” button. On the newly popup “Add Files” window, open the “Library > Music” tab to choose music and ringtones from iTunes for converting for Android. Step 2. Select Channel, Sample Rate and Bit Rate. After importing the iTunes M4P and M4A music files, you can view the files under the category “music”. Check the loaded iTunes music file or ringtone file, and then click the pencil icon to set output audio channel, sample rate and bit rate. Step 3: Set output directory. After that, on the “Home” window, move mouse to the bottom and then set output directory in the “Output” box. Step 4: Start converting iTunes music and ringtones. Once all settings done click the blue “Convert” button at the bottom to start removing DRM from iTunes music/ringtones and converting iTunes music/ringtones to MP3. With the DRM protection removed from iTunes ringtones and your iTunes ringtones converted to DRM-free MP3 audio files, now you could transfer the converted iTunes ringtones to your Android phones via direct copy-and-paste. Then, just set the ringtones as your Android ringtones. Part 3: How to Transfer Ringtones from iPhone to Android with iTransfer. Sometimes you might want to transfer ringtones from your iPhone to Android phones. In such case, actually you don’t need to make use of iTunes. You could use a better iPhone ringtone transfer tool – iTransfer to directly transfer iPhone ringtones to Android phone. The below steps would tell you how to transfer iPhone ringtones to Android phones directly with iTransfer. Step 1: Connect iPhone to computer. Run Leawo iTransfer on PC and then connect iPhone with PC with suitable USB cable. This iPhone data transfer software will recognize your iPhone automatically. And you could view all the iPhone information on the main interface as showed below. Step 2. Choose desired ringtones for transferring. Go to “iPhone icon > LIBRARY > Ringtones” to view all ringtones on your iPhone. Choose the ringtones you want to transfer to Android phone and then right click on one of them. After that, you need to choose “Transfer to > My Computer”. In the pop-up panel, you need to click “Change” button to navigate to a location on your PC to save the exported iPhone ringtones. When the transfer completes, you have got your iPhone ringtones onto your computer. then, disconnect your iPhone with computer and then connect your Android phone with your computer. After that, directly copy and paste the transferred iPhone ringtones to your Android phone. Disconnect Android phone with computer after copying and pasting. You will then be able to set the ringtones as default ringtone on your Android phone. Actually, Leawo iTransfer could not only help you transfer ringtones from iPhone to Android phone. It could transfer up to 14 types of data and files, including notes, messages, contacts, photos, videos, music, etc. You could easily transfer videos from iPhone to computer, put iPhone photos to computer, etc. with this professional iOS data transfer. Meanwhile, Leawo iTransfer for Mac could help you transfer these data and files between iOS devices, Mac computer and iTunes on Mac. Extension: Download Spotify Songs as Ringtones for Android. As en extension, we would like to tell you that Leawo Prof. DRM is actually also a Spotify music downloader tool that could help you remove DRM protection upon Spotify songs and then download Spotify music files to AAC, MP3, M4A, etc. according to your needs. Therefore, you could easily turn any of your favorite Spotify songs into an Android ringtone for your Android phones. This Spotify music downloader not only keeps 100% quality of the original songs on Spotify. It also helps you kill the ads of Spotify songs when you are using a Spotify free plan. Therefore, you will never be bothered by the ads of Spotify Free plan and listen to any Spotify music with ads-free. Still, this Spotify music converter also enables you to adjust audio channel, bit rate, and sample rate for a better music quality output and offline Spotify music enjoyment. The below steps would show you how to download Spotify songs for Android ringtones in detail. Note : Before you launch Prof. DRM to download Spotify songs as Android ringtones, make sure that you have launched Spotify and play songs smoothly on your computer. Step 1: Add Spotify music to Prof. DRM. Launch Leawo Prof. DRM. This Spotify song downloader would require you to launch or relaunch Spotify software on your computer. Click the Spotify icon on the Home interface to add songs, albums or playlist from Spotify desktop software. You could also directly drag and drop songs, and album from Spotify app for adding. Also, you could convert your entire Spotify ringtone playlist for your Android phones, just open the “Converted” tab on Leawo Prof. DRM, click the “Add Files” button, copy and paste the playlist URL of your Spotify music into the browser bar, and then click the “OK” button. Step 2: Set output format and audio quality. After loading Spotify music, you could see a pencil icon in each loaded Spotify music title. Click it, choose MP3 or other available audio formats as you like (MP3 is recommended since it’s recognized by most Android phones), and change the Channel, Sample rate, and Bit rate. Check the “Apply to All” or “Apply to current” button afterwards. Step 3: Set output directory. After setting output format, you now need to set output directory for saving the downloaded Spotify songs. At the bottom of this Spotify music downloader, set output directory in the “Output” box. Step 4: Start to convert. Finally, press the blue button “Convert” at the bottom right corner. Leawo Prof. DRM would start to remove DRM protection in the background, download and convert Spotify songs to DRM-free audio files immediately. After downloading, you could view all downloaded Spotify songs under the “Converted” tab. Now, you could go to the folder you have set above to get downloaded and converted DRM-free Spotify songs, and then copy and paste them to Android phone as ringtones. With Leawo Prof. DRM, you could download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, FLAC, M4A, etc. as you like. With Leawo Prof. DRM, you could not only turn iTunes music to Android ringtones, but Spotify songs as well. 5 Easy Ways to Watch iTunes Movies on Android. As Apple encodes iTunes movies with M4V format, and due to the DRM protection in the media files, it is very problematic to watch iTunes movies on Android. Yet you have the opportunity to watch iTunes movies on your Android with some ways. We will discuss about the easy ways to watch iTunes movies on Android in this article. So read on as to grab the valuable information. 5 Easy Ways to Watch iTunes Movies on Android. Now we will see the 5 easy ways to watch iTunes movies on Android. Method 1. Using iSkysoft Phone Transfer: Using phone transfer, you can easily transfer music from iTunes to Android and watch them. For phone transferring, MobileTrans for Mac (it also has MobileTrans for Windows version) is a perfect choice which has very quick operation capability. MobileTrans for Mac works on Mac and Windows works on Windows PCs smoothly. Some of the great features of iSkysoft Phone Transfer are as follow: It can back up the data of your phone to your PC. It can also scan and erase data of your previous phone. It can recover data of your phone. It does a great job for transferring data from one phone to another. Steps for Transferring iTunes Movies to Android. Step 1. The first thing is to download the software and then install it. Once the installation is accomplished, start the software by clicking on the icon. Step 2. Afterwards, connect your Android device to your PC with a USB data cable. Now choose “Restore from Backups” and then select “from iTunes backup file”. Step 3. Now you have to select the movies files and then click on “Start Copy” button. Just it, your iTunes movies will be transferred to your device within a very short period of time. Method 2. Manually move iTunes movie to Android through computer: You can manually move your iTunes movies to your Android device if you want. Though the procedures are very tedious, you can know how to do the thing done. Step 1. Connect your Android device with your PC and take your device to the Mass Storage USB Mode. Step 2. You have to ensure that your Android device is listed. Step 3. Be confirmed that in iTunes Media Folder, iTunes files are copied. Explore iTunes and follow Edit > Advanced option and then mark the option “Copy files to iTunes Media Folder when adding to library”. Step 4. Select files from iTunes from the Music folder. Step 5. Finally paste the files on your Android phone or tablet’s specific folder after copying from iTunes. You can avoid this lengthy process by choosing any of the dedicated software like iSkysoft Phone Transfer. Method 3. Sync iTunes Movies to Android with DoubleTwist. Now we will talk about DoubleTwist. You may have heard the name of DoubleTwist as a media player, but it has also the iTunes syncing option that is available in the PC version of the app. So learn the process of syncing iTunes movies with DoubleTwist. Step 1. To do the task, you have to download both the versions of the app, such as DoubleTwist for Windows and DoubleTwist for Android. Step 2. Now connect your Android device to your PC with a USB cable. Then you have to enable the USB file storage. Step 3. After opening the start menu, go to DoubleTwist by putting it in the search box there. Launch the program. Step 4. You will see the device under the heading pane. You have to press on the device to select it. Step 5. Now you will shown a bar where you can measure the free memory of your device’s memory. Above the bar, there are the boxes of file types which you may sync. Step 6. In another way, you can transfer track or album separately one by one. To do that, you have to select files in the library and drag them to your Android device. Method 4. Sync iTunes Movies to Android with iSyncr Android App. iSyncer works perfectly with or without connecting your Android device via a USB cable as there is Wifi connecting option too. It can sync iTunes movies so that you can watch them on your Android device. Step 1. Connect your Android device to sync. Step 2. The whole iTunes playlists will be displayed in a list. Step 3. You can use your finger to touch the file which you want to sync and then press start. The initial sync might take a bit more time, afterwards all other things go smoothy. Step 4. Now using a suitable media player for Android, enjoy your iTunes movies on your Android device. Method 5. Download iTunes Movies to Android with iSkysoft iTube Studio. You also can use iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac to download iTunes movies and then transfer to Android,it is easy and free to download movies through iSkysoft iTube Studio and it allows you to convert your downloaded videos content to any output format. Step 1. Download the iSkysoft iTube Studio software from the official website and install it in your Mac.Then run the software. Step 2. You can open your iTunes movies in Safari, Chrome or Firefox and you will find a "Download" button at the top left corner,click the button to download the movie to your Mac. Step 3. After downloading the movies,you can convert the movies to video format which is suitable for your Andriod device. Then you can transfer the movies to your Android device to watch them. Tutorial to Transfer Music from iTunes to Motorola. Q: I have two mobile phones, one is iPhone and the other one is Motorola phone. I believe it is common for modern people to have two smart phones, because I have seen the similar situations for many times. There is a problem that often trouble me. I love listening to the music but I have no idea about how to transfer music from iPhone to the Motorola phone. So could you guys please tell me how to perform the transferring process easily and quickly? I will be grateful if you can give me some advices and help me solve the problem. You'd better download third party tools in order to solve the problem, MobiKin Motorola Music Transfer (Windows or Mac) is a good choice for you. It is a professional software which is easy to operate and can enable you to transfer files between computer and Motorola within few clicks and in seconds, which is an important part of the whole transferring process from iTunes to Motorola. With the help of this software, it will be much easier for you to transfer the music from iTunes to Motorola. There are two parts of the transferring process from iTunes to the Motorola phones. How to Export iTunes Music to Computer? The iTunes is a powerful application that enable Apple users to store files, play music and manage the device. You can follow the steps below to transfer music from the iTunes to computer. Firstly, connect the iPhone to computer with the USB cable and then start the iTunes on your computer. Just hit the " Edit > Reference . > Advanced " option. Secondly, click the " Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library " button and then when you sync the files from iOS device to the iTunes library, the media files will be automatically saved in the folder. Finally, just find the folder on the computer and copy the files from the folder to the computer. The iTunes Media Folder location on your Windows computer is as follows: - Windows 7: C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\ - Windows 8: C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\ - Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\ - Windows Vista: C:\Users\username\Music\iTunes\ - Mac OS X: /Users/username/Music/iTunes/ Tips: You may want to know more about how to transfer music from iPhone to computer. Check this out - Transfer Music from iPhone to Computer Free. Transfer Music from PC to Motorola Phone. After that, you can use the MobiKin Motorola Music Transfer to sync songs to your Motorola smart phone. Besides, it can also help you transfer other files like videos, photos, apps and contacts and so on between computer and any Android phones. There are two versions available and you can download the free trial version to have a try. You can learn how to transfer music between motorola and computer/Mac with more detailed steps or just follow the steps below. First, connect your Motorola smart phone to your computer via its USB cable and then launch the program. Enable the USB debugging if it is needed. Then launch the software and it will detect the Motorola phone automatically. Then you will see an interface with many options list in the left panel. Just click the "Music" button and then preview the existing files in the right panel. Finally hit the "New" button and transfer the music from the computer to the Motorola phone. Note, you can also transfer the music from Motorola to computer by clicking the "Export" button after you check and mark the wanted files. How to browse the iTunes App Store on Android. Ever find an amazing app in the Market and want to share it with a friend who is on iOS? Now you can send them an App Store link directly from your Android device. You found this really amazing app in the Android Market and you want to share it with your friend who has an iPhone. Sure, you could tell your friend the name of the app and wait patiently while they fumble through the half a million apps in the App Store looking for it, or you could send them a direct link for the app in the App Store, right from your Android device. A new app, iTunes App Store Explorer, allows Android users to browse the App Store directly on their device. Of course, you won't be able to download or install any of the apps you view in the app on your Android device. Now, this may seem like an obvious statement, but if you read through the Market reviews you will understand why it had to be made. After installing iTunes App Store Explorer on your device, you will be taken directly to the top paid apps list in the App Store. From here you can either search for an app by name or developer, as well as view apps by category. Screenshot by Jason Cipriani If you want to change the country or language for the App Store, you can do so in the settings pane. This app will also come in handy for developers with apps across multiple platforms who want to keep tabs on their app's current ranking in the App Store.