really need help with mp3 downloading

parsnips

i bought both my kids an mp3, both different makes.
i bought smoe downloads from the tesco site, and can download them very easily onto my sons mp3.
when i try downloading the same songs onto my daughters it keeps saying error as it starts the download.
is it because i have already downloaded them into my sons mp3 and it wont download it twice onto a different mp3,

i dont understand whats wrong

rogerramjet

Probably, why don't you just transfer them from your sons mp3 player back to the comuter and then transfer them to your daughters mp3 player

dadstaxis

Nice to meet the similarly confused!! Bought my kids mp3 players for xmas a well. Am now fumbling around and have managed to download to both! It might be a format problem with the rogue device. You might want to try and reformat it? Plug the mp3 player into your computer and locate the "removable drive" in My Computer. Right click on the icon and select "format" from the menu and follow the instructions. Once it has formatted, try the music download again.

Not why I logged on though!! Which are the best/cheapest download sites for music? The mp3 players at TJ Hughes finest - not ipod or anything fancy, so I don't want to cough up too much!!

:xmassign:

parsnips

dadstaxis wrote:

Nice to meet the similarly confused!! Bought my kids mp3 players for xmas a well. Am now fumbling around and have managed to download to both! It might be a format problem with the rogue device. You might want to try and reformat it? Plug the mp3 player into your computer and locate the "removable drive" in My Computer. Right click on the icon and select "format" from the menu and follow the instructions. Once it has formatted, try the music download again.

Not why I logged on though!! Which are the best/cheapest download sites for music? The mp3 players at TJ Hughes finest - not ipod or anything fancy, so I don't want to cough up too much!!

:xmassign:

the mp3 i am having problems with is the one i bought at tj hughes, i can download cds onto it but not dowloadable music from tescos website, i have already formatted the player, so dont know why it wont accept music from the web, my daughter is very annoyed. someone please help

weemee

If it's DRM protected music you will have to use the correct application to move it accross. Most likely to be Windows Media DRM. Open media player, Click Sync, Select files, Sync them accross.

Let me know how this goes.

Regards

parsnips

weemee wrote:

If it's DRM protected music you will have to use the correct application to move it accross. Most likely to be Windows Media DRM. Open media player, Click Sync, Select files, Sync them accross.

Let me know how this goes.

Regards

how do i do that????

weemee

Ok, DRM music is digitally protected which means that it needs to be signed Out to a device to enable playback.

Open windows media player in full mode (ctrl & 1 if your in mini mode), then click Sync - you should see a screen like this http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/images/mp10/onlinestore_purchasedmusic_550x356.jpg (that picture shows the libry but you wnat the Sync tab)- use the drop down menu in the left to locate the track you want to sync accross from your play list (tick them), then click start sync (top left button above tracks your moving).

This will then show a progress bar which will enable you to tell when it's done. The music should now play

Regards

parsnips

weemee wrote:

Ok, DRM music is digitally protected which means that it needs to be signed Out to a device to enable playback.

Open windows media player in full mode (ctrl & 1 if your in mini mode), then click Sync - you should see a screen like this http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/images/mp10/onlinestore_purchasedmusic_550x356.jpg (that picture shows the libry but you wnat the Sync tab)- use the drop down menu in the left to locate the track you want to sync accross from your play list (tick them), then click start sync (top left button above tracks your moving).

This will then show a progress bar which will enable you to tell when it's done. The music should now play

Regards

did it, and the songs that were downloaded from the internet are still saying error, so cant be put onto my daughters mp3, now what shall i do

weemee

It could be that the MP3 player does not support Windows Media file .WMA files, if it does it may not support DRM .WMA files. Is the error specific?

Does the player have a make? Or reference a web site?

Regards

beautifulgorgeous_2

My ipod keps coming up on usb icon and is not being recognised as a a device on my computer please advise

weemee

beautifulgorgeous please don't hyjack threads. Start a new one! It gets to confusing otherwise! beautifulgorgeous, do you have Itunes installed on the PC?

Regards :xmassign: :santa2: