MP3 player VIRGIN!!! PLEASE HELP LOL

[S_H]

hi ok I want something to listen to tunesd on thru my transit on the bus everyday. I like ipods (shuffle) but don't want to pay for every tune when I have over 1000 songs on my windows player. so I looked at this
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1476611&CatId=1695 (it was small cheep and well reviewed GO FIGURE)
so here is my question how do they work. I am not even sure what MP3's are technically (yeah I know talk about green!) I do have a huge library in my windows player can I use that or do I have to do anything special?


ANY HELP would be appreciated!




**Feeling quite stupid right now lol**

 

[El_Cid]

if your windows player has the files as MP3's you can use those with thr shuffle. just copy them into iTunes as that will be your only way to move songs in and out of the shuffle..

 

[frankcastle]

Personally I go a cheaper and easier route.

1) get yourself limewire from www.limewire.com, its a free program that allows you to download mp3s for free and it has no spyware.

2)Go to futureshop and get one of the discmans that can play BOTH CDs and MP3s ($50).

3)Buy some blank CDs

4)Burn the mp3 files from your hard drive to the CD okay you can only fit about 100 songs give or take onto a CD but its much cheaper this way. You can do this using windows explorer. Use the ctrl key and mouse to select all the songs you want to burn to the CD, once they are all highlighted, right click and check properties (you want the total memory to be less than 700 MB since that's the max a CD can hold). Now right click, copy, and then go to your CD drive and paste. After pasting click on a command to burn the files to your disk. Don't use windows media player because it will want to convert the songs to a CD type format limiting you to only 70 minutes of music.

NOTE: this is assuming you have a CD burner.

NOTE: mp3 is just a file format, the reason it is so popular is that it allows you to store a song with only using a small amount of memory. To find out if the songs you already have are mp3s

 

[George OTJ]

I like ipods (shuffle) but don't want to pay for every tune when I have over 1000 songs on my windows player.

I bought a 4 g iPod mini and it comes with a iTunes software for PC/Macs. With the iTunes software, it's a simple to transfer music from my CD collection onto my PC. With the mini attached to the PC (cables included), it's a single click to upload everything to the mini.

I'm assuming the shuffle works the same way. If you want to check it out before you buy, you can download iTunes software free from www.apple.com and have it search your computer for music files. Hopefully it will find your MP3 files. Anything it finds, it should* be able to load onto the ipod.

P.S. You may have space problems on the shuffle if you want to upload a lot. I've uploaded 717 songs on to my 4gb mini (1.8 days worth) and takes up 2.41gb.

* LOL When I first ran iTunes, I had a game CD in the drive. iTunes listed all the music files on the CD and would have let me upload them if I wanted to.

 

[S_H]

Yahoo

I got my shuffle (zellers actually sells them too)
so I got my ipod shuffle. it is not in my hot little hands yet but should be shortly!!!
so then I guess I have to figure out what to do with it lol. I hope many of my existing files will transfer over (fingers crossed)
downloading itunes now!


ok tried searching the files I AM SO TOTALLY LOST lol

 

[Lil'Miss]

You can download iTunes for free from the apple website and get started on moving your files over before your shuffle gets to you. I think what you have to do though, is burn your files to a cd and then rip them into the iTunes program. Try going to the file first though, you may be able to click on open with iTunes.

Miss

 

[S_H]

hi

thanks miss
my ripped files are torrents and don't even show up when trying to import....... guess it's 99 cents a tune for me

 

[George OTJ]

thanks miss
my ripped files are torrents and don't even show up when trying to import....... guess it's 99 cents a tune for me

I don't know what "torrents" are, but if in iTunes you're clicking File/Import, you might want to try File/Add file to library

From iTunes help

Adding songs from the desktop to your library
You can add songs or other audio files from your computer's desktop to your iTunes library.

Drag the audio file from the desktop to the Library in the Source list (or choose File > "Add File to Library" and select the song file).


If the file is an unprotected WMA file and you have Windows Media Player Series 9 or later installed, iTunes makes a copy of the file in AAC format (or whatever format is chosen in the Importing pane of iTunes Preferences) and adds it to your iTunes library; the original WMA file remains unchanged. You can't add protected WMA files to iTunes.

If you drag a folder or disk, all the audio files it contains are added to your library. If you drag a song from the desktop to a playlist in the Source list, the song is added to the playlist and to your library.


By default, iTunes keeps a pointer to any added songs in the iTunes Music Library file; the original song file is not moved.