Ipod question

[sargey]

Wor lass wants an Ipod for her birthday.

Am i right in saying that you have to install itunes in order to play standard mp3's on an ipod?

And does itunes then convert the mp3's into some sh1tty format that means you cannot copy it back to a cd?


TIA.

 

[Turkish]

You need to install itunes yes, as thats the softare the ipod uses. You can burn a disc from itunes as MP3 files no problem i think the only issue you have is with tunes downloaded from itunes as they have a copywrite protection in them but any other music you have ripped from hard copies or downloaded from other sources will be fine. The format itunes is set to rip to automatically is AAC but you can change it to MP3 and if you already have all your tunes ripped to the desktop you can just move them into itunes.

 

[G_F]

No to both Qs

 

[andywright182]

another n00b question, if i have music downloaded from other sources will itunes let me upload them or do they have to be ripped frpm cd or bought through itunes?

 

[ollie]

yes it will let you upload any music you download, as long as its a format it plays anyway. I would suggest buying/downloading Anapod though, as iTunes is pretty shite tbqh

 

[G_F]

Winamp with the ipod plugin is where its at

 

[Daz]

Winamp with the ipod plugin is where its at

LMAO.
iTunes owns all.

 

[Harry_manback]

can you just use an ipod like a usb mass storage device and shove all your albums on and hope it sots itself out?

 

[ollie]

can you just use an ipod like a usb mass storage device and shove all your albums on and hope it sots itself out?

i dont think this is posible as iirc "proper" ipods have a database.

 

[G_F]

can you just use an ipod like a usb mass storage device and shove all your albums on and hope it sots itself out?

No, it has a proper file system. Formatted on a Mac OS X computer it uses HFS+ On Windows FAT32 is used (file structure)

You can just chuck a load on there. but it will just act as a mass storage device. i.e. wont play on the ipod.

Edit:

lol @ sargey avatar, classic!