itunes-mp3 player question

[Cajuncowboy]

If you have an mp3 player that isn't an Apple branded player, can you still use itunes or do you have to use another service?

 

[Yeagermeister]

If you have an mp3 player that isn't an Apple branded player, can you still use itunes or do you have to use another service?

I don't think you can because itunes doesn't save the file as an mp3. I could be wrong on that.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

If you have an mp3 player that isn't an Apple branded player, can you still use itunes or do you have to use another service?

I don't think you can use the itune program itself.

However I would think if you have a lot of songs from itune, you might be able to convert them to another format to use with a different player. Not really sure though.

 

[YosemiteSam]

If you have an mp3 player that isn't an Apple branded player, can you still use itunes or do you have to use another service?

Steve Jobs requires you to go ALL-IN using Apple. Otherwise he will give you the finger. :laugh2:

 

[YosemiteSam]

I don't think you can use the itune program itself.

However I would think if you have a lot of songs from itune, you might be able to convert them to another format to use with a different player. Not really sure though.

Hmm. I don't think the DRM will allow that.

 

[vta]

It doesn't seem to be an easy answer. Some say yes other no, yet others say yeah but the ID tags don't come along and the songs aren't named on the player.

Though CNET makes this claim...
Sync any MP3 player with iTunes

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Hmmm.

Can an Ipod play a regular mp3 file that I got from another source?

 

[YosemiteSam]

Hmmm.

Can an Ipod play a regular mp3 file that I got from another source?

Yes. My wife rips CDs onto her iTouch and also other mp3s that I've given her.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Yes. My wife rips CDs onto her iTouch and also other mp3s that I've given her.

Cool. It's a bit of a pain since my wife, both daughters and I each have mp3 players but some are Apple and some aren't. Then the two that are Ipods, we want to use the same pc to put some of the same music on both ipods but the itunes program will only recognize one ipod.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Cool. It's a bit of a pain since my wife, both daughters and I each have mp3 players but some are Apple and some aren't. Then the two that are Ipods, we want to use the same pc to put some of the same music on both ipods but the itunes program will only recognize one ipod.

You might have to use multiple windows logins and put iTunes on each. That is how the wife and I have if set up. That way each has our iPhones and iPods on individual iTunes progams. I think iTunes sets up to a device and does not like other ones to use the same program for different devices. I think that is so someone can not have a lelarge music library on their computer and then have another person come in, hook up a different iPod and copy to the other iPod.

So for the two iPods, make Tao login accounts on your computer. Put install iTunes on the second one from scratch.

Now if you want the same music from one iTunes library to the new one Aja one iPod to another, you have to plug in the iPod, when the new iTunes starts to load, close it. You then have to go from my computer icon and navigate into the iPod; find where the iPod stores the music and copy the folders into a folder on your computer. The folders in the iPod will have an oddball alpa numerical mixed names and each folder will have a bunch of songs but they will not be named in a way you will recognize.

Once that is done, remove the USB cord so the iPod is not connected. Moaning should be able to load iTunes and do a add music to library search by pointing it to where you copied the folders to on your computer.

It should find them and add them to your library. Now you should be able to connect the iPod and sync it.

Well that is what I had to do at one time to get the wides music from her iPod to her phone on the computer. Hope that makes some kind of sense. Now the one time I hooked my iPhone up to the computer and tried to look in it as a USB drive instead of in iTunes I could not find the music folders, but it was probably listed a diff way. Oh, if this post is screwed up, sorry I am doing it on my iPhone and I still suck at this small onscreen keyboard.

 

[UnoDallas]

Hmmm.

Can an Ipod play a regular mp3 file that I got from another source?

I use an Ipod I got I tunes downloaded on my puter

yes I get all of my mp3 from

http://beemp3.com/

http://www.mp3raid.com/

got over 500 songs

for nothing

just buy a stick memory for each of the different members of your family and keep the music files there

just stick your memory stick whem you want to lkisten to your music