Help please re humax foxsat hdr

allenegrant

Hi.

Ive tried to load music onto the harddrive of the above using a usb memory stick containing all my tunes. ie Itunes etc.

In the media window I can see a list of the artists in alphabetical order, but not the tracks.

Ive tried highlighting the entries and after either selecting play or ok I get a wait please and thats it, no music.

In the paper instructions there's a picture showing all the tracks and the duration but I can't seem to get to that.

Does anyone out there know where Im going wrong.

Thanks, in anticipation. Regards. Allen.

PS> Im assuming that it does'nt matter whats on the tele screen in the background, ie Frost, News or whatever.

fwor

What file format is the music in? If you are using the iTunes native formats such as AAC, they won't be recognised as AFAIK the Humax only supports MP3.

allenegrant

Hi.

Thanks for the info. Ive been into my Itunes library and and in options I see my music has been imported as AAC.

Ive altered the option to MP3, and Ive now found that that I can change all the tracks in my library to MP3 using the Itunes option.

:mad: I have to do them all individually and Ive got one hundred and sixty tracks to go. Or do you know an easier way.

Am I right in assuming that even my purchased tracks from Itunes as well as those from my CDs have been formated as AAC.

Here's hoping. Regards. Allen.

macman

AAC is the iTunes default format.

fwor

I've never used iTunes, so I'm not familiar with it. From a similar thread a while back I think there may be a way to select all and convert in one go, but hopefully someone who knows it will be able to advise.

There are other conversion tools that you can get for free, but IIRC my favourite - Audacity - can't (isn't allowed to by Apple) handle AAC without much messing about.

However, you might want to take a look at Super, as it's free and can cross-encode from anything to pretty much anything else - though if it's purchased music you may find that DRM will trip you up...