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).