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Episode: 1898
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Title: HPR1898: Free my music!
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1898/hpr1898.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 10:56:24
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This is HPR Episode 1898 entitled, Free My Music.
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It is hosted by Alpha 32 and is about 7 minutes long.
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The summary is, how I got my music off my Mac and then did my eye dependence.
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Hey there, Hector Public Radio. This is Alpha 32 again.
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Today I want to tell you about how I sold a little problem I was having.
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It was an issue that kept me from fully switching over to Linux
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and stopped using my Mac.
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What I want to tell you about is how to get your music off of your Apple computer deal.
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And just generally liberate your music from the cold grip of Apple.
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I know there's probably an ease of where to do this, but I couldn't figure it out.
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If you got a better way, please record a show.
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It will help somebody.
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So I used the command line to do this because that's more comfortable for me.
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If you don't have a term, you have the, if you don't know where the terminal is on your Mac, just use Finder.
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The little character, get your eyes, little guy down there on your dock.
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He'll help you find it.
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So the first thing that I did after getting the terminal jazz, I enabled the root user.
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Because on your Mac, just naturally, they don't let you have root.
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I guess because they're fragile, screw up their beautiful machine.
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It seems kind of, I don't know, not very trusting of them.
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Not very cool, in my opinion. But anyway, so to enable the root user, it's kind of a funky process.
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Basically from just straight from your desktop, click on your little apple up there in the top left and choose system preferences.
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And then from the view menu, the box that pops up there in the middle, you know, of all your settings instead.
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Choose users and groups.
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Then there at the bottom left, there's the lock, you know, you got to, you got to undo to make any changes.
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So go ahead and click on that, enter your password, that little, all that jazz.
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Then in the sidebar, there on the left, at the bottom is login options.
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Go ahead and click on that.
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And then after that, there is an edit or join button at the bottom right in the main area there.
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Click on that and then click open directory utility.
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And click the lock in the directory utility window.
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You are going to have to enter an administrator account name and password, you know, just like you did earlier, you know, authenticating after you click the lock deal.
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And from your big menu up there at the top, you know, the whole way they call that like a global menu thingy.
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I think unity on Ubuntu has it.
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What's kind of steep in my opinion.
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That's what took me the longest was figuring out what the heck they met by that because I forgot about the whole global menu thingy.
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So, you know, just there up in the top left.
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Click edit and then down towards the bottom of the list is enable root user.
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So do that, pick your root password, you know, you got to type it twice to make sure you didn't screw anything up.
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Click OK.
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And you have root.
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Now from your terminal, you can just go, you know, switch back on the unique side of your brain.
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And, you know, SU enter your password, la, la, la.
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And then what I did was I just plugged in an external hard drive and did a CP-R on the directory that had my music in it.
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Actually, I had to read in that folder because it was two words with a space in between.
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And you guys all know that the command line doesn't like that.
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That's kind of crappy.
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So I did read in that folder, you know, take out space.
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So just do your CP-R to your external hard drive, which for me was like slash Andrew slash media slash iTunes music.
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Yeah, and it'll copy all that over to your, your external media.
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It sometimes takes a while, you know, I know I had like 55 gigs of music on my Mac.
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And I was, this is what, what really kept me from pulling switching to Linux because I really didn't want to lose 55 gigs of music.
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Which I had, you know, of course I paid for all that.
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So yeah, anyways, once you do that, you know, you've got your full collection there on your, your external media.
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And it is yours again to do it as you please within the confines of the license naturally.
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But that's a different story.
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So that is how to get your music off of your Mac and onto your Linux box.
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So go and, you know, follow these instructions if you're having that same issue and then fire up some rush man.
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This is Alpha 32 signing off for AgriPublic Radio.
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