itunes for dummies

[trlcavscout]

I need help so my wife will quit complaining! My son bought her an itunes gift card for moms day, she downloaded some music to the PC but she cant get it to work on the MP3/4 player. You can drag it over and then open the removable disk drive in my computer and see the music but you cant see it on the player when its undocked? I see mixed remedies when googling, is their an easy way to do it?

I just copy cd's and amazon downloads to my mp3 so I dont have much experience with these. Any help is appreciated!

Ok I see a program that will do this but its $35?

[joeyshoe]

Is she using an iPod? If so, you will need to "sync" the iPod with iTunes. I create a separate playlist in iTunes and put all the sings I want on my iPod into that playlist. Then when you are in the settings portion if your iPod IN iTunes, just sync your new playlist.

If she is using an iPod you can pm me and I can try and help you over the phone. Hope jou get it worked out!

[trlcavscout]

No its not an Ipod.

So I see if you burn them to CD and then rip them back to the hard drive in a windows format then she can down load to her generic mp3 player? I guess? I am trying that now. I hate jackin with this stuff.

[theGinsue]

No its not an Ipod..

I believe THAT is the problem. It's been a couple of years, but last I heard iTunes would only work on an iPod.

[Zundfolge]

No its not an Ipod.

So I see if you burn them to CD and then rip them back to the hard drive in a windows format then she can down load to her generic mp3 player? I guess? I am trying that now. I hate jackin with this stuff.

No need to do that (that used to be the method), now you just right click on the songs in iTunes and select "convert to MP3".

I also believe there's an iTunes store setting that allows you to download in MP3 instead of AAC (or whatever the iTunes format is).

[trlcavscout]

No need to do that (that used to be the method), now you just right click on the songs in iTunes and select "convert to MP3".

When downloading or after downloading? Not sure if you mean before you download them? Thanks


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[Zundfolge]

Convert to mp3 after they're downloaded and in your iTunes library.

Although I do believe you may have the option somewhere to download the songs from iTunes in MP3 ... not sure where because its been a while since I used iTunes (I'm running Linux machines now).

[trlcavscout]

Ok I found it, you have to change the preferences, then go to advanced and convert them, then go to all music and it shows the mp3 version and mpeg4 version.

Thanks for the info!

[clublights]

Tho you figured it out already I'll toss some info for anyone else that reads this


Song's from iTunes are in AAC format.(Advanced Audio Coding) which only works on ipods/iphones/ipads/ other apple products

As shown before you can convert to mp3 to use on non apple audio players.

:-)

[Hoosier]

For future reference, check out http://gomusicnow.com. It's a Russian site with credit card processing in Poland, so I used a pre-paid VISA card to load up credit. It's legal in Russia to sell for these prices. Basically 1/10th of what you pay from iTunes, and you get MP3 format from the go. I've had a balance there for more than a year, slowly working it down as I find new music to grab. If that's too sketchy, you can also buy from Amazon and get MP3 files.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QCcMTHCBJ4c/TS2hg46hbpI/AAAAAAAAEyU/JRKEMib7SvQ/s1600/Mp3%2BMp4%2BMp5%2B-%2BThe%2Bnext%2Binevitable%2Bstep.jpg

[Zundfolge]

It's a Russian site with credit card processing in Poland... If that's too sketchy...

Yeah I'm thinking it would be safer to just download stuff off The Pirate Bay ... without any sort of peer blocking ... and then email the RIAA with a message to "come and get me bitches!"

[Muaha]

[HBARleatherneck]

i like, thanks comrad.



now, i have to get a prepaid credit card. unless you think its safe to use my real card. 9-15 cents a song for most of the ones i looked for.

the question is..how is the quality? are they records burned to mp3? because some of the music I am looking at is 30-60 years old. I like the prices though.

where can you legally buy music cheaper than a buck a song? I am open to suggestions.

[Hoosier]

now, i have to get a prepaid credit card. unless you think its safe to use my real card. 9-15 cents a song for most of the ones i looked for.

the question is..how is the quality? are they records burned to mp3? because some of the music I am looking at is 30-60 years old. I like the prices though.

where can you legally buy music cheaper than a buck a song? I am open to suggestions.

I'll still grab another disposable card next time I'm at Safeway when I need to recharge it. Call me paranoid, but I lived as a sysadmin through the days of eastern Europe being the vast majority of fraud.

You can preview the songs by clicking the little green arrow. The quality of the previews isn't always as good as the actual tracks, I think they might be a little more compressed. You can certainly give one track a try for ten cents and assume the others will be about the same qualtiy.

H.

[Inconel710]

+1 for Amazon. Songs are less than a buck (especially if they're old or not popular), come in MP3 format, and get cheaper as they get older. I just checked some of my old orders and the songs have dropped since I bought them. Now you can save them to the Amazon Cloud and get them from anywhere or download them again if your hard drive fails.

[trlcavscout]

Amazon is what I use. But pre paid CC's should be used all the time in my opinion. Everybody gets hacked eventually. Especially when going to busy restaurants, malls etc. Why risk it.

[Zundfolge]

Not to side track things, but can you fill these pre-paid CCs with cash?

[trlcavscout]

Not to side track things, but can you fill these pre-paid CCs with cash?


Yes. Walmart, 7-11 and many more places have them. Some have a small one time fee some have a per use fee, and some are just ridiculous so you have to read the fine print.