itunes for dummies

[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.