CDs are back

0:0026 years ago, CD sales hit their all-time high, then came downloads, MP3 players, and the iPod. By 2010, CDs were fading fast. Until now, I'm Kim Kovato for NetSuite. If your revenues are over 7 figures, see how AI is changing the way we work. Get NetSuite's free guide at NetSuite.com slash Kim. Vinyl snobs wear nothing beats a record. Fine, but CDs are having a moment. Sales were up 16% so far this year. It's nearly 7 times faster than vinyl. Records still sell more though. For now, K-Pop fans are buying them by the truckload, Gen Z2. Now here's the wild part. About half of all young CD buyers don't even own a player. They collect them like trading cards. Mark my words. The hottest gift this Christmas plays CDs. My advice, don't dump your old disc at Goodwill. Look them up on Discogs first. And for older millennials and baby boomers, welcome back. Suddenly your good taste has been rediscovered. Sign up for my free newsletter at GetKin.com.

1:02Music collections are making a comeback. And Jim and Alabama just wants his. He had decades worth of personal playlists that vanished when Apple transitioned from iTunes to Apple Music. And nobody over at Apple can tell him how to recover them. So coming up, Kim has a plan for him to try next. There's something about Fall that puts me in reset mode. Getting organized, tackling projects, and getting back into a regular schedule. And Raycon everyday earbuds classics are part of my daily routine. Whether I'm traveling, walking the dogs, or running errands, my Raycons go everywhere with me. Active noise cancellation tunes out distractions. While awareness mode lets you hear what's happening around you. They sound fantastic. They're comfortable and they pair with your phone and computer at the same time. Every life is up to 32 hours and a quick 10 minute charge gives you 90 minutes of playtime. Oh, and the new colors are awesome. My personal pick, CoolMent. Now here's the kicker. Raycon delivers the same premium audio quality as the big brands, but at half the price.

2:06That's an 8 plus in my book. The everyday earbuds classics are the perfect companion for your fall reset. Go to buyraycon.com slash Kim to get 20% off. That's buyraycon.com slash Kim. This message is brought to you by Raycon. Jim and Huntsville, Alabama. Welcome aboard. Hi there, Jim. Hello Kim. Thanks so much for taking my call. You bet, Jim. I read your newsletter every day and twice on Thursday. See that? Twice on Thursday because you get the AI version. Correct. That is correct. And every day I pick up tips. Well, we love that. Thank you. Thank you. So go ahead. No, I was going to say, so what's going on with you? Well, my issue actually started a couple of years ago, but it escalated in March. I had hundreds of songs and playlists and iTunes. Many they were tied pretty deeply to personal milestones like weddings. To my wife and because I come from a long line of Irish Catholics, a funeral as a party,

3:07so I had funeral playlists. Most of the songs were personal collection vinyl CDs and things like that. It's been Apple transition from iTunes to Apple Music. The music disappeared from iTunes, but it was still on my iPhone. So I thought, well, that's fine. That's good enough for me. So I thought it was manageable. Then I bought a new iPhone. At the Apple Store, they backed up my phone. Before they backed it up, they said everything would be restored. Well, the music disappeared. So it was just, this is several decades worth of music. So to my knowledge, they never informed anybody that music that you put on there yourself would not be transitioned. So here we are, three senior text later and instructions believe it or not that they sent me referenced iPods. Oh, no.

4:08Only a lot of listeners don't even know what an iPod is. Oh my gosh, really? You got steps for an iPod? Oh, God. But you still have the phone that has all the music and the playlist on it, right? Well, here's the thing. Apple couldn't help me by managed to recover the music. It went into Apple Music. My playlist never went back in. I'm keeping mind three months worth of work. And now I want to get it out of Apple Music. So I'm afraid it's going to disappear again. And what Apple tells you is, well, it's copyright, et cetera, et cetera. Well, you know what? I bought those CDs and I bought that vinyl. So I actually, in my opinion, own it. So I want to keep my music and management on my own terms. I want to get out of Apple Music all together. But I need some clarification. Did you download these audio files from iTunes or you uploaded the music yourself?

5:12Well, somewhere downloaded, but the majority because I have a huge collection of music, I uploaded myself into iTunes. What should be that for years? Which should be DRM free. Correct. If you're doing that, I mean, if you're streaming it now because everything else you've just bought a license to play it on your device. You didn't actually buy the media. Right. And so we're now we have, we have these, we have, you know, several hundred songs sitting in Apple Music that I want to export out because it had taken me, I couldn't even count the number of months that had taken me to recreate all that. And a lot of those things I don't have anymore. This isn't a nightmare. Yeah. It really is. And it's not like Apple is going to have an export button that you just simply click because they don't want you to leave their Apple universe. And so they lock everything down.

6:14They don't, okay, decide note is this. You know, I read that Tim Cook reads all his emails when he has time. So I sent him an email. Sure enough, he sent me sent the email, I guess, or executive relations, then picked it up. He called me and then they referred me to a senior tech who referred me to another senior tech to another senior tech. It turns out when you talk to Apple, there's no answer to this question. There's no way you can do it. Why don't believe it? I don't believe that. There's going to be some way you can do that. Yeah, I mean, he talked to three Apple techs that couldn't do it. Go ahead, Kim. It's all the problem. No pressure at all. Not at all. So what do you think your next step is, Jim? Well, my next step is to recover the music out of Apple Music. So it doesn't happen to me again. My next step is to find a platform or an app or a program that has the ability to do

7:16that. No, I've read those do exist. I think what I think what I would do is try to get all the music out. And there is a program. I've never used it. Sound I. I. Okay. First of all, I've read the first shot and see if that will work. And then I would set up a YouTube Music account where you can have 100,000 songs for free that you upload. And then you can make your own playlist. Yeah. And then just keep it all on YouTube. And I actually use YouTube Music and it's easy to download it once you have it uploaded in there. Yeah. I mean, it's a piece of cake. And then you have the YouTube Music app. And yeah, yeah. Oh, you need your help. I'm going to use a term that's very foreign to Apple. It's very user friendly. No. Yeah. No. No. No. No, there is something you might want to try to. This is really far fetched. I don't know if it'll work. But if you go to privacy.apple.com, there's a form there where you can say, hi, I don't want

8:22a copy of all my data that you have about me. Ah. Now, I don't know if your music's going to be included on it. But it's a worth a shot. Doesn't cost you anything. I think so too. A little bit of time. And that's it. Privacy.apple.com. Okay. And that's their big thing because they're big on privacy. So that this way, you know, I just saw an ad for them this morning. New ad about how privacy is now included on your iPhone. It's like, hmm, wonder why we're saying that. Why wasn't it included last week? What happened? What happened? What was new? Wait, that's, you know what? But at least he got his note answered. Yeah, that's true. I mean, there is that baby steps. You know, he forwarded to somebody and they said, we'll try it. Go ahead, try it. We dare you. Then they sent him instructions for an iPod. And then they sent him to Jeff where nobody likes to talk to Jeff. They're like, oh, 10 minutes talking to Jeff. He'll hang up the phone and switch to a Samsung. I able to board how I'm going to help you.

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