ipod help

[backbreaker]

okay, i woke up this morning and decided I was going to buy an ipod. However, and although i know everything you could possibly want to know about a computer, I admit I know pretty much nothing about portable mp3 players.

I understand ipod is an apple product, but answer this for me... by having an ipod am I limited to only using music/video downloaded though apple software (i.e itunes)... in other words, are the 20GB or so songs on my laptop rendered useless becuase I didn't get them from itunes? If so I will look at another alternative.

 

[Adone]

I'm not sure I have understood your question completely. Anyway, you can for sure upload songs in every format from your laptop to your iPod (if they are not mp3s, iTunes will usually convert them, as long as it's a conventional format, like WAV or WMA). Most people download songs from eMule or ***** and then upload them on the iPod. I don't know anybody who buys songs from iTunes Store.

However, if you are talking about transferring songs from iPod to laptop (for example, you are at a friend's house and he fills your iPod with cool songs, then you want to upload them from the iPod to your laptop), the thing is different. You have to download some program from the NET that will do the job. Or, even more simple, you can set your iPod as a Hard Disk and put them in it as files rather than songs. Then you will connect the iPod to the laptop and download them in it.


Far more complicated explaining it rather than doing it.

 

[ValleyDJing]

Don't worry about it its easy. When you buy an IPOD, it comes with the itunes software that you download to your computer if you don't already have an apple. I have a sony viao and took me about 5 minutes to download the software and another 10 to automatically transfer all my music from windows media player to itunes (may take you longer because you have 20x the music I did at the time I bought my ipod). Thats it.

In the future when you download music from limewire or whatever, you just use open with...and select itunes and your computer will download the song to itunes instead of windows media player and you're good to go.

 

[oakraiderz2]

No. Once you have itunes you just have to transfer the music in whatever folder its in to itunes.

 

[backbreaker]

okay, i wanted to make sure I wasn't limited to just using songs/videos I downloaded from the itunes store.. that would not be good