How can I add my wave files to my Ipod?

sandrined said:

beats me...
I attempted to do that and they were corrupt within 5 minutes then itunes went wacko and I had to repair it...lol
Terrible, I know..
I wish I could figure out how to fix these zips files.

Just click on it and it will import to Itunes just as an mp3 would, it's no different.

I have checked

http://forums.macrumors.c...12596.html

you have to burn the waves files into a CD with Nero or something similar.
than add the CD into your computer and add to Ipod library!

wav files would eat the battery on your ipod because of their size - best to convert to mp3 in itunes (you can set the preferred bit rate to as high as you like....)

iPods with current firmware will play uncompressed WAVs with no problems, as long as the sample rate is correct at 16-bit. iTunes will automatically convert the WAV container into the MP4 container as an m4a(lossy) file. If you are getting errors, this tells me that the LotusFlow3r WAVs may be compressed. iPods cannot play compressed WAVs.

To keep sound quality maximized with an uncompressed WAV, you can either load the WAVs onto the iPod by bypassing iTunes and mounting the iPod as a hard drive, or convert the uncompressed WAVs to compressed Apple Lossless using iTunes.

Remember: Never convert compressed files to another compressed format (aac to mp3). Convert uncompressed to compressed or vise-versa (WAV/aiff to mp3/aac).

sandrined said:

Just load the WAV files into iTunes - enter the ID3 tag information how you want it, then you can convert them all into whatever format you want.

Don't burn a CD unless you really wanted that CD - it's wasteful!

You don't want to load WAV files onto your iPod anyway, even if you can. The files are too big to justify that.

What kind of iPod do you have? I have a 120gb Classic (harddrive-based) with a 64mb memory cache. What that means is that my iPod will pre-load 64mb of music that it plays before having to load up again. Under normal circumstances, that is a whole album at MP3/AAC size.

If you load WAV files onto a harddrive-based iPod, your cache will only hold 1 song and will reload every few minutes. Battery life and, actually harddrive life, will decrease.

WAV files are roughly 10x larger than their MP3 counterparts, and the human ear can't tell the difference most of the time. Use MP3 or AAC for the iPod.

Ipods don't do flac/ape/etc?
If so use flac. Small enough and still all the WAV quality.

iPod-supported formats, taken directly from Apple.com:

• AAC (16 to 320 Kbps)
• Protected AAC (from iTunes Store)
• MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps)
• MP3 VBR
• Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4)
• Apple Lossless
• AIFF
• WAV

Se7en said:

The WAVs will be automatically compressed to the m4a format when imported as-is. They won't have the original's huge footprint. That would be insane.

Se7en said:

So no popular lossless compression types?
Thanks, but no ipod for me....

udo said:

Apple Lossless is gaining popularity, but no - FLAC or anything like that aren't supported (yet).

As we are on the theme of the iPod & iTunes, would anyone know why the two albums Lotusflow3r and Bria's are not showing any identifying data in my iTunes system [anywhere, the music library, the playlist, etc.] For the Mplsound one it shows the name of the album, of the artist, genre, etc, but not for the other two albums, their boxes in iTunes are blank. It's frustrating because I have a hard time finding the songs.

Anyone else has that problem? Or knows why these two albums transfered to iTunes that way?..
Thank you in advance.