IPOD Help

[SgtSpiderMan]

I officially feel old.

I just got an IPOD Nano and I'm trying to figure out how to mass transfer songs. I can do them one by one, but I have over 200 songs to go through. Is there a way to just copy & paste?

 

[albertaboy]

My wife and kids bought me one for Christmas, I had to get my 14 yer old to get me started. I think the synch function allows it, but I'm not sure.

 

[mordisco_amoros]

what are you trying to transfer them from?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

what are you trying to transfer them from?

My computer.

 

[mordisco_amoros]

My computer.

have you tried putting the itunes window on half of your desktop and your my computer file on the other half, then selecting all the music files you want to transfer and click and dragging them into itunes?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

have you tried putting the itunes window on half of your desktop and your my computer file on the other half, then selecting all the music files you want to transfer and click and dragging them into itunes?

I'll give it a shot. Where in FL are you?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

My wife and kids bought me one for Christmas, I had to get my 14 yer old to get me started. I think the synch function allows it, but I'm not sure.

I see that's a feature, but it's not lit up as something I can perform.

 

[mordisco_amoros]

I'll give it a shot. Where in FL are you?

I'm near Tampa.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I'm near Tampa.

I'm in Orlando. I think the copy & paste thing worked.

 

[mordisco_amoros]

I'm in Orlando. I think the copy & paste thing worked.

nice

 

[south_florida_bicur]

IPod help

Excellent thread..

I recently bought one and I too am having trouble loading it. I asked a friend but he told me that someone else loaded his so he was no use.

Ok, I am on my own. I was able to upload 3 cd's onto my ipod. I was happy as a pig in shit. The next day I uploaded another cd and when I went to listen to my ipod, I only had 10 songs on it. It was the cd that I just uploaded. Meaning, I somehow erased the 3 cd's that I upload the night before.

As of now I have about 8 cd's on it and I think (only think) that now I have it but I will wait for a younger person (as I am an old fart) to post trying to learn from them.

If nothing else works, we can test it together. You only learn from your mistakes and trust me I made a shitload of them...

GOOD LUCK..

 

[massage45678]

Very Simple

3 words drag and drop. Click your 1st song to select it then hold shift and select the last song with all of them highlighted drag them and drop them into your player.

 

[Texguy84]

Every time you sync songs or movies onto your iPod, it erases everything that is already on there first. Annoying way of doing things, but that's how it's done in iTunes. If you're terribly fond of iTunes (I understand it has a music store attached, and I'm not sure what format the audio files from that come in), then you just cope with it and sync everything you want, every time.

It's also worth mentioning that Winamp, a nifty audio program used primarily for listening to MP3s on your computer, now offers support for MP3 players including the iPod, and does not wipe your iPod every time you transfer songs or videos over (although the videos do need to be in .mp4 format, I think). In Winamp, once you import the music into your library, just right click on the song(s) in the library, and select "Send to/iPod", and it'll transfer them over.

As far as movies go, I bought a program called PQ DVD to iPod Video Suite for about $40, and it will rip DVDs straight to .mp4 or convert video files on your HD to .mp4 for you. Handy for long airplane trips if you can get used to the little screen.

 

[elib257]

I don't know if this is any use for an ipod but I use it for my mobile/mp player. When I download music or rip it from a cd I put it all in one folder called *imaginatively* 'music'. Then when I want to put new stuff on there I just delete everything from my phone and drag and drop the whole file (without opening it) into the mobile window.

I hope that makes sense - I'm not so good with computers

 

[SxyTigress76]

I too just got an IPOD Nano...gulp..from the looks of this thread it should be interesting to figure the thing out!

 

[kindashy]

I hate seventh version of iTunes.

 

[Texguy84]

I hate seventh version of iTunes.

Then embrace the fifth version of Winamp (IIRC, Winamp 3 supposedly sucked so bad, they skipped 4 and went straight to 5). The latest update includes iPod support, and it works pretty nicely, at least for me.

 

[red_jane_doe]

I had an iPod mini and now have the new Nano. I haven't had a problem with either one. I have a folder on my desktop named "music" and that is where I download all of my music and upload my cds. Then I open iTunes and add the contents of my "music" folder to it. Every time I add a song to the "Music" folder, I drag and drop it into iTunes. I've never had a problem with anything disappearing or being erased.

The Nano is awesome! It came with games and when I loaded the photos, they were surprisingly clear and big. I love it!

 

[south_florida_bicur]

the good thing about bringing it into ITunes is that it reads the cd and imports the cd name and song titles.

most times when you open a cd you just see the words "track 1", "track 2", etc.

that is why I use ITunes.

 

[elib257]

the good thing about bringing it into ITunes is that it reads the cd and imports the cd name and song titles.

most times when you open a cd you just see the words "track 1", "track 2", etc.

that is why I use ITunes.

I've never found that from cd's - apart from copied ones from unidentified sources *looks around shiftily*. Generally, bone fide cd's come up with the proper names and sources etc. My mp3 player is really a pda/phone and is based on windows so I can get all of that 'properties' stuff - which would be nice if I knew what it meant....

 

[south_florida_bicur]

I've never found that from cd's - apart from copied ones from unidentified sources *looks around shiftily*. Generally, bone fide cd's come up with the proper names and sources etc. My mp3 player is really a pda/phone and is based on windows so I can get all of that 'properties' stuff - which would be nice if I knew what it meant....

vettyy interesting...

I just popped in a Billy Joel (store bought if that means anything) cd.

Windows Media player (default player) has in the now playing section

unknown artist
Track 1

looking to the right I see tracks 1 - 14.. all without the real name..

 

[kindashy]

the good thing about bringing it into ITunes is that it reads the cd and imports the cd name and song titles.

most times when you open a cd you just see the words "track 1", "track 2", etc.

that is why I use ITunes.

I will second elib, pretty much all the players since 1996 or so have a built in protocol for contacting the free CDDB database. You, usually, have to tell the program to go and contact the database and then it gets the cd information. Also, a firewall might prevent the connection to the CDDB database.

 

[Texguy84]

I will second elib, pretty much all the players since 1996 or so have a built in protocol for contacting the free CDDB database. You, usually, have to tell the program to go and contact the database and then it gets the cd information. Also, a firewall might prevent the connection to the CDDB database.

I *think* the newer versions of Windows Media Player can do this to, but it might be something you have to enable, rather than being on by default.

 

[south_florida_bicur]

thanks, i figured it out..

 

[Cenobite]

Actually Winamp 5 combines the best parts of Winamp 2 and Winamp 3, thus 2+3 = Winamp 5.

Generally when I want to rip my CDs for placing on my iPod I use something like Exact Audio Copy.
Then once all my files are in my format of choice (FLAC) I add them to a winamp playlist (or just the media library) and then tell it to send to my iPod.

Works fairly well and iTunes kind of lacks any decent features. I only installed it to confirm if I had the latest firmware or not and am considering uninstalling it and continuing with winamp only for iPod access.