okay so you have to get your music through the program of ITunes..but what if you already have songs on your hard drive that weren't through ITunes...does that mean you can put them on your IPod? and what if you are on another musical downloading site and want to get your song from there...how do you get it on your Ipod???

I don't have an Ipod, but was just inquiring about this...the answer isn't on the apple website.

Yes, you can.

But Ipod's don't play .wma so you would need Itunes to convert them that that wierd aac or acc(spelling????) format then to .mp3.

Yea, the converting is kind of a drag if you already have a bunch of music on your computer. Luckily I only had a little to convert, had to start fresh w/ everything else (putting albums in via ITunes)...

Dumb question: I have iTunes 2, I have no idea how to use it, do the new iPods work with this?
I can't even work out how to burn an audio CD with this computer (OS 9.2)

charlottegelin said:

All IPods should work w/ ITunes. As long as you set up each new IPod to work w/ ITunes - they should all come w/ a cd or something.

• Open ITunes
  
• Put the cd in your drive
  
• Click "Advanced"
  
• Click "Get CD track names" (if it's a factory cd)
  
• once it gets the names (so you don't have to put them in yourself), click "import" in the upper right corner

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[Edited 11/6/05 1:45am]

CalhounSq said:

Thanks,

I put the CD in, it says I need to prepare the CD:
Standard
iTUnes
MP3-CD

I tried choosing iTunes once, but then nowhere within iTunes could I find a button to burn a CD, there are options under preferences for CD burning, but once I select what I want from here (ie. speed and space between tracks) how do I get the songs from iTunes to a CD?

charlottegelin said:

OH, I thought you were bringing tracks INTO ITunes, not getting them out. That's a different process.

To burn:

• create a playlist of the songs you want
  
• go to "file" & select "burn playlist to disc"
  
• it'll ask you to put in a blank cd
  
• click the "burn" button in the upper right corner

CalhounSq said:

there is no "burn playlist to disc" option! maybe there's something wrong with my iTunes

charlottegelin said:

So you've already created a playlist? When you're on that playlist, does the button in the upper right corner say anything? If it says "burn" try just clicking it & see what happens (I just did it to mine & it turned all blinky, my cd opened & it asked me to insert a disc)...

charlottegelin said:

I found it! There is a weird radioactive looking button on the top right that says "burn CD" which goes yellow and black and spins!

I got this computer from work, came with no manuals, NOTHING! I'm not complaining though!

Thanks for your help!

charlottegelin said:

SWEET

CalhounSq said:

blinky!!!!

and every song that you import onto your IPod you have to pay for it on Itunes, right?

missfee said:

NO... your IPod will play any song you have in ITunes, which includes songs from albums you've burned into your computer, songs you purchase from ITunes, songs from BuyMusic.com that you've converted. Your IPod songs don't have to be purchased directly from ITunes...

really, just install iTunes and play with it, it speaks for itself.....it's pretty fucking easy!

CalhounSq said:

Phew!
I made some CDs thanks to you

charlottegelin said:

CalhounSq said:

thanks for your input...