IPod help please

Cindy

Can anyone tell me if there is a way of transferring music from windows media player to an ipod?
I have downloaded music from Tesco onto my home pc with the intention of transfering it to my son's laptop for his Itunes/Ipod but Itunes cannot convert it as the files have some sort of protection - the songs play ok in Windows media player on his laptop.

wolfman

alexjohnson wrote:

In future you would be better off buying music from the iTunes store - it's the same price and will work on the iPod as is.

Although at the moment that would restrict you to using an iPod, as only iPods can play music downloaded from iTunes (unless you get round the protection).

I personally have an iPod and a Shuffle but would never download from iTunes.

Cindy

Thanks for the advice - I burned it to CD and transferred it to ITunes and it worked - I download from Tesco as I don't yet have an Ipod of my own.

superjaggybunnet

When you are in 'iTunes' you can 'import' music from other folders into your itunes library. Simply then drag them onto the ipod. easy!

wolfman

There's only one site I'll buy music from, but I don't think we can mention it here. Apart from that I still like to buy all my music.

iTunes for me, is too expensive. I'd much rather have the original cd.

1) It usually doesn't cost much more, plus you get packaging with it.
2) It's of higher quality (lossless instead of lossy)
3) It's a natural backup and you can encode from it as many times as you want
4) No DRM!!!

And to be fair, encoding doesn't take that long. Probably no longer than it takes to download the tracks from iTunes anyway. I don't plan on re-encoding all my music again either, but it's re-assuring that I have a lossless original (the cd) if needs be.

The main advantage of iTunes is being able to buy selected tracks. Generally I like to have a whole album as either my taste changes, or I find a track I wouldn't have noticed originally. Plus it just feels more complete having the whole album. There are occassions though, where it is handy just to have the one track and not have to shell out on the rest of the album.

I'm mainly put off by DRM, and (correct me if I'm wrong) but I thought tracks from iTunes could only play on iPods (and pc's), not on any other portable player. Which effectively ties you to buying iPods for the forseeable future.

I do have an iPod myself, but run Rockbox on it and encode using Ogg Vorbis (an open source, free codec).