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jujitsu

I am going to treaat myself to an mp3 player I dont know to much about them .If i bought the apple nano would i be able to add the songs on to it that i already have in media player or can i only down on to the ipod throuhh itunes also been looking at the archos mp3 and was wondering if this would be a better bet for a newbie

amcluesent

The Nano can play MP3 encoded files but cannot play music encoded using Windows Media (usually .wma) files, irrespective of whether these files have digital rights managament (DRM) set.

The iTunes application can import existing music into the Library to sync with the Nano as well as download from the iTunes Store.

jujitsu

so does that mean that any muscic i have on my computer i just import into itunes is it that simple

Gib_Gib

If you have digital rights enabled on the music that you import, itunes will not be able to convert them into mp3s.
If digital rights are not enabled, you just point itunes at them, they will be converted no problem.

You can find out if they are protected by going into your music folder (normally My Music ) and right mouse button one of the music files, go to properties, you should then get a window with 3 tabs at the top, click the license tab. If it says protected content, then you are unable to play your music on an apple device, otherwise you can convert.

You can download itunes for free http://www.apple.com/itunes/ to try it out

If all your music are mp3s anyway then you are laughing.

ahll

I did the above put only 2 tabs appear and none of them are called License !

Can anyone tell me what this means ?

I am trying to convert some wma file to MPS for my new phone

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

ahll wrote:

I did the above put only 2 tabs appear and none of them are called License !

Can anyone tell me what this means ?

I am trying to convert some wma file to MPS for my new phone

That should mean that your songs aren't protected, so you should be able to transfer and/or convert them.

ahll

well I am trying but I am obviously doing something wrong. Should I be able to convert from wma rto MP3 using the itunes package because I dont seem to be able too !

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

I don't think that WMA is a file type that ITunes supports, so I doubt you'll be able to convert it in there.

You can try Audacity or dbpoweramp.

superscaper

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote:

I don't think that WMA is a file type that ITunes supports, so I doubt you'll be able to convert it in there.

Itunes does convert WMA to MP3, so long as the WMA is not a protected file (ie paid for download).

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

superscaper wrote:

Itunes does convert WMA to MP3, so long as the WMA is not a protected file (ie paid for download).

I just presumed it didn't.

Would you mind telling Jujitsu how to do it as I'm not an ITunes user.

Edit - Found one way, but don't know if it's the quickest.
Go to File, then Import and choose your wma file. Itunes should automatically convert it, as long, as is mentioned above, it's not a protected file.