Can anyone help me with an IPod problem? (1 Viewer)

[Chickadee]

Hopefully someone can help me, i recently got a Ipod for my B'day, lucky me, i charged the battery, done wat it said in the book, installed the software.

I was tryin to transfer my music from my audio CDs to the computer, Itunes, but the CD doesnt appear in the source and the songs do not appear. Do i need to update the CD rom drive, any clues where i could do that?

Please help!

 

[MedNez]

Is your CD recognised by windows, or windows media player?

 

[Chickadee]

Windows Media Player

yeah windows media player, but i think ive got a solution, im not goin to use itunes, im tryin another software package, Music Match Jukebox

 

[MedNez]

I don't rip my music with Itunes, rip it with Creative Playcenter (mostly because that's what my old mp3 player before my Ipod used).

Just rip the music with some other software, and import the music into your Itunes library

Probably be more convenient.

Med

 

[Chickadee]

Another Question

Does that mean once i rip the songs of my CDs, then import it into itunes, does that mean that im doubling up on the files, or just using them from another location on the computer.

Once putting the songs on to my IPod, should i delete the songs of my computer to save space or leave them there??

Anyone?

 

[Brad]

How can i convert WMA to MP3

 

[MedNez]

Does that mean once i rip the songs of my CDs, then import it into itunes, does that mean that im doubling up on the files, or just using them from another location on the computer.

Nope, you rip the songs to your computer. Itunes will use the location of those songs for it's library. No doubling up of files

Once putting the songs on to my IPod, should i delete the songs of my computer to save space or leave them there??

If you have the space, better to leave them on the computer, so you can listen to them while using it, or put them back on the Ipod if something happens.

If you're low on space, I'd consider leaving them on the Ipod only, but I don't think that will be a problem.

How can i convert WMA to MP3

Read this:

http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=42898

 

[r0wlzii]

Hmmmm...take it back, get your money back and invest in a Creative MP3 player.

 

[MedNez]

Psh.. creatives players have gone downhill since they started using harddrive based storage. Ipod harddrives have way less issues at the moment.

 

[redslert]

Hmmmm...take it back, get your money back and invest in a Creative MP3 player.

lol totally agree
sell it and go do yourself a favour by buying an iRiver or creative

 

[El_Blinkey]

I have used a program called CDEX to convert my WMA files to MP3, but apparently iTunes does it as well, and its faster...

I had troubles for ages with my Ipod too, it took me ages to get music to transfer onto it.
Also, my ipod lasted about 3 months in perfect condition, then for an unknown reason, one side of the case popped open, and the hold button stopped working (when you put it on hold, it gets stuck)... plus i scratched the screen...

 

[r0wlzii]

If it breaks now dont stress it would have broken in abou 4 weeks anyways.

iPod = $400+ (Last you a year)
iPod insurance = $100+ (Last you another year)

Fuck Apple they are the worst company on the earth, the only good thing about them is that they dont have Steve Ballmer and their advertising. FALSE advertising that is.

 

[Chickadee]

Another prob with IPOD

Please help, i dunno wat i did, but now my IPOD is actin all weird....

For starters when i turn it on, the apple symbol appears, and then a folder with an explanation mark, means for sure somethins wrong.....???

Can anyone tell me, how to completely wipe it, so i can start from scratch? OR do u have anyother suggestions, then take it bac?

If it does it again, for sure im taking it back!!!!

 

[davey336]

The iPod manual tells you how to wipe it clean, it's something like holding the play/pause button down along with the menu button. I dunno, something like that

davey

 

[r0wlzii]

Walk to the bin, open lid, insert iPod roughly into contents, close lid, walk away.

 

[Chickadee]

umm no

If i press the select and menu button at the same time i would only be resetting it, not wiping it!!

Anyone got any ideas, instead of throwing it out?

 

[MedNez]

The iPod manual tells you how to wipe it clean, it's something like holding the play/pause button down along with the menu button. I dunno, something like that

That'd be resetting it heh. Doesn't wipe anything, but the first thing to do if something goes wrong I suppose.

You can wipe the drive and start again with a computer utility supplied with the Ipod.

This may be a silly thing to say - but if your solution is to bag out the Ipod after somebody already has it and wants to fix it, not buy something else, is there reason to post the comment after everybody else has already well worn out the joke

Just a thought haha.

 

[Huratio]

Hopefully someone can help me, i recently got a Ipod for my B'day, lucky me, i charged the battery, done wat it said in the book, installed the software.

I was tryin to transfer my music from my audio CDs to the computer, Itunes, but the CD doesnt appear in the source and the songs do not appear. Do i need to update the CD rom drive, any clues where i could do that?

Please help!

i had the same problem. when i sticked the dock connector to the USB2 port it did the same think- bt when i used the firewire port it worked and it appeared on the source list.

it this doesn't work try either downloading the most recent iPOD updater from the apple support site, or update iTunes, or take it in to service at your nearest Apple Centre.

BTW the creative 20gb what ever it is called is a gay version of the iPOD and is not even as close to competitive to the iPOD.

 

[Grizzly]

There exists a WIN XP SP2 bug....im currently unable to install ANY versions of itunes due to SP2.

 

[Huratio]

There exists a WIN XP SP2 bug....im currently unable to install ANY versions of itunes due to SP2.

Dammit! you might be right, i got sp2 a month ago and this might be a problem.
my iTunes works, but try getting current versions of iTunes, cause the old versions seem to have a lot of bugs

oh yeah, it doesn't like the usb port and it has problems ejecting the iPod.