iPod Question and Help

Big Tex

My daughter, Jennie, got an iPod for Christmas. Currently we are downloading her mp3's from a CD to iTunes. However I am very confused about how to then download songs from the iTunes library to the iPod. I realize it cannot be in mp3 format (AAC seems to be the format required), and I have figured out how to convert an mp3 to AAC.

However I am still stuck about how to transfer from iTunes to the iPod. We have it hooked up to the computer but I see no option for transferring to the iPod. What am I missing? I have googled to my little fingers are raw, but I see no instructions anywhere.

Also when we convert a song from mp3 format to AAC, nothing in the iTunes library indicates which song is in mp3 format and which is in AAC format. How do I tell?

You know, it may have been illegal, but the old Napster was a whole lot easier! Why do businesses have to trick up a product and make things so difficult for the consumer?!

Any help is very much appreciated.

Chris

misanthropic

Mine shows my ipod as soon as I have it connected to the computer, when ihave my itunes open. But it might be different if you aren't using an imac.

Big Tex

Yeah I'm using a PC, Windows XP and all that, that implies.

Leolaia

Is this something with the newer iPods, requiring the files to be in AAC? I have an older iPod, and I actually have all my files in mp3 format...

jinjam

have you downloaded itunes software from itunes from the internet? , normally when you put a cd it should import the song automatically and then it downlaods the music when you put connect the ipod into the computer!

jinjam

or have a check in preferences, maybe you should change that the music should download automatically!

5go

No All you do is tell itunes where your mp3 files (import that folder in the itunes menu it won't move them it just read them where they are and put them on your main playlist) then put the songs in the playlast that your ipod sync's too and tell the ipod to sync in itunes. I have no problems ith mp3 playing on my ipod or in itunes.

Big Tex

Is this something with the newer iPods, requiring the files to be in AAC? I have an older iPod, and I actually have all my files in mp3 format...

I don't know Leolaia. I'm an evil, wicked Napster user from 1999 so I know nothing of these new fangled ways of iPods. My problem is figuring out the mechanics of actually transferring her songs to her iPod. So far I've had little success. Makes me feel like Middle Aged Man.

have you downloaded itunes software from itunes from the internet?

Yes, and although it is painfully slow, transferring one song at a time, we are doing it. But my problem is then transferring the songs from the iTunes library to the iPod. I see no instructions about how to accomplish this.

normally when you put a cd it should import the song automatically and then it downlaods the music when you put connect the ipod into the computer!

Yeah that's what I thought would happen. I thought there would be some sort of process, or at least a pull down menu giving me the option, of transferring songs from CD. No such luck. Very very very frustrating.

No All you do is tell itunes where your mp3 files (import that folder in the itunes menu it won't move them it just read them where they are and put them on your main playlist) then put the songs in the playlast that your ipod sync's too and tell the ipod to sync in itunes. I have no problems ith mp3 playing on my ipod or in itunes.

hhhhmmmmmm ... I don't recall an option for import, nor do I recall an option for syncing but I'll go back and check.

See the problem is we bought this iPod off of eBay and it came with no software. So I'm trying to do this on the fly and I'm finding out that there seems to be quite a bit of software that is missing. Apparently.

Thank you very much for all your replies. My pre-Alzheimer's brain really appreciate any and all help it can get!

Chris

MinisterAmos

Go Here.....>>>>>http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/support/ for the real scoop on Ipod software. The trick is to NOT use the Apple junk which limits you to just Apple format. Want to keep MP3 (or whatever) format? Just use the redchair explorer. Easiest and best Ipod accessory ever!

Ipod software problems are many, including the bad habit of deleting all the songs on both your player AND your comp if you don't have the right settings checked.

I still have my original Apple MP3 player bought way back when in 2001so I know a little about this. I've watched the software become worse and worse as Apple worries about being dinked for contributing to copy right violations. I've seen the Apple ITunes site begin selling DRM filled crap for a buck a song while those in the know can buy 10 songs for that price at www.allofmp3.com. Comp and Ipod don't match? No problem! We'll just delete all the songs! Using MP3 format? we'll change everything for you! Some apologists will defend even DRM by saying things like "Oh all you have to do is burn a CD, then re-rip it and re-burn it and all the DRM coding will be gone." Why the heck should I have to go through all that when it's not necessary?

Sure you can hack ITunes into doing what you want, but why not just buy sortware that lets you use the Ipod the way YOU want to use it?

If nothing else, read the FAQs.

Leolaia

The trick is to NOT use the Apple junk which limits you to just Apple format. Want to keep MP3 (or whatever) format?

iTunes rips in its proprietary format, but at least as of last year you can certainly upload mp3s via iTunes, keeping the format the same.

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