help!!!!!with mp3 downloads

candygirl

I spent a mint last night getting tracks off a legal download site, 7 digital.com, but the tracks have saved to files in my pc.How do I now rip them onto my mp3.I have windows media player and its a pc with xp.Soz to be sooo dense.Also does itunes do tracks for mp3s or just i pods, or are they the same?god i'm getting old :eek: :eek: :eek:

Browntoa

if its a mp3 player , just plug it in and the PC should detect the new USB device and it will appear in windows Explorer as a new drive F: up to K:


depends on the PC , then just locate where you downloaded the music , highlight the MP3's and then "left mouse click" and drag them to the drive assigned to the MP3 player , or "right mouse click" and copy , then go to the MP3 player drive and do the same but choose Paste

totalsolutions

Hi,
>How do I now rip them
You don't, you already have the tracks.
The term "ripping" refers to removing or taking off (rip, ripping off) the sound infomation from the source cd.
As you have the track its already been ripped.

>windows media player
Its a player and has nothing to do with your portable mp3 player or transfering songs to it.

>Soz to be sooo dense
You got me there!

>Also does itunes do tracks for mp3s or just i pods, or are they the same?
I would say yes to all three questions, but add that mp3 is a compressed music file format and is lossy, compressing about 10:1 and not really worth buying for sound quality reasons and the ability to become unplayable later or worse total loss due to hardware failure. Stick with real cds if you can.

jmc160

totalsolutions wrote: »

Hi,
>How do I now rip them
You don't, you already have the tracks.
The term "ripping" refers to removing or taking off (rip, ripping off) the sound infomation from the source cd.
As you have the track its already been ripped.

>windows media player
Its a player and has nothing to do with your portable mp3 player or transfering songs to it.

>Soz to be sooo dense
You got me there!

>Also does itunes do tracks for mp3s or just i pods, or are they the same?
I would say yes to all three questions, but add that mp3 is a compressed music file format and is lossy, compressing about 10:1 and not really worth buying for sound quality reasons and the ability to become unplayable later or worse total loss due to hardware failure. Stick with real cds if you can.

TS, were you being ironic when you chose that username?

OP, Windows Media Player CAN in fact be used to rip music from CDs, burn to CDs and sync with an MP3 player. If you have the lates version, have a look at the tabs at the top of the window and it should be fairly clear. I'm not too sure of the ins and outs as I use iTunes myself. (which leads me cleverly on to...)

iTunes can be used to transfer music to your iPod and listen to it on your computer. It's also a nice interface to the iTunes Store, but apart from that, if you don't have an iPod, I'd try and keep away from it a it uses its own file format, so you won't be able to listen to the songs on a non-Apple MP3 player.

What MP3 player do you have? You may find you can jusat drag and drop as has already been said, or it may have come with its own software?

superjaggybunnet

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candygirl

Thanks for all your help.I admitted in my OP I am a technophobe,so really appreciate the genuine help around here.We all have our areas of expertise,so thanks again,and i'll give it a go later, when I get in from work:D

Marty_J

jmc160 wrote: »

iTunes can be used to transfer music to your iPod and listen to it on your computer. It's also a nice interface to the iTunes Store, but apart from that, if you don't have an iPod, I'd try and keep away from it a it uses its own file format, so you won't be able to listen to the songs on a non-Apple MP3 player.

Not exactly true. iTunes uses AAC compression which isn't owned by Apple or anything, and can be played back on more than just iPods. However, most of the tracks from iTunes still have DRM copy protection, so they can only be played back on an iPod. If you had a player that could play AAC files and you only purchased DRM-free music (of which there is only a limited selection at present), you could play it back just fine. This probably wouldn't work for the majority of people though, as you pointed out.

jmc160

Marty_J wrote: »

Not exactly true. iTunes uses AAC compression which isn't owned by Apple or anything, and can be played back on more than just iPods. However, most of the tracks from iTunes still have DRM copy protection, so they can only be played back on an iPod. If you had a player that could play AAC files and you only purchased DRM-free music (of which there is only a limited selection at present), you could play it back just fine. This probably wouldn't work for the majority of people though, as you pointed out.

Nicely put thanks Marty, I was trying to think of a straightforward way of saying that kind of thing, but I had about 5 minutes left of my break! Plus you seem a bit more clued up on it. :beer:

totalsolutions

jmc160
>TS, were you being ironic when you chose that username?

K I S S

candygirl

Sorted it, and did copy the files to windows media player, then synced them from there to my MP3:D