I went home last night after work and thought to myself: “maybe the only thing I haven’t tried in awhile is putting some of my iTunes files on here.”
So, I went ahead and grabbed a few of the albums I’d most recently purchased from the iTunes Music Store and popped them onto my MicroSD chip. Lo and behold, they started playing immediately.
This includes both AAC files I have ripped from CDs I own, along with M4A files that I have purchased from the iTunes Store.
This has been one of the biggest points of contention between my phone and I, for a very long time. It has also been the biggest reason that I keep experimenting with alternative ways to play music, and between my Walkman, my old iPod, the old iPhone, and various means of streaming on the current phone, there are indeed plenty.
But sometimes, it’s nice to know that I can buy an album on iTunes, and dump it on my phone and listen to it while I’m walking around.
Right now, the phone has a 2GB memory card in it, and that’s definitely enough for average phone usage, I’m going to consider very carefully getting an 8, or maybe even a fantastic 16 or 32 gigabyte memory chip for the thing, so as to be able to fit more music on it.