I got my ipod Nano today. What a great little toy. I started putting the software on our computers with great enthusiasm. Most people know my interest in all kinds of music, so I was really looking forward to downloading stuff from all across the various spectrums.
Imagine my irritation when I realized I couldn't get an "unlimited" download off itunes like Napster offers. With a 1000-song ipod, at .99 a song, no wonder Apple has been doing so well of late.
I can't imagine there isn't a way to transfer songs lifted from Napster to my ipod, but I have yet to discover it. Therefore, I admit it: I'm too old. I can't make the new toys work.
I hope my various rowers will have some mercy on me and help me out.
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10 comments:
You just discovered Apple's dirty little secret, create a buzz around the device and sock it to ya with the services charge.
The cellphone makers are doing the exact same thing with all these phones packed with features and then you get your cellphone bill and your jaw hits the floor when you get the 500.00 phone bill from using those special cool features.
Jay, I'm kind of afraid to admit this online because the Whitehouse could be tapping my computer and letting apple know, but I have over 1200 songs on my iPod and I paid for 3 of them.
Jay-
If they're all saved in one file, like "my music", just highlight all of your songs and right click. On that menu that opens up, click on "open with" and itunes should be in the drop down menu. Also, make sure they're all in MP3 format...if they aren't you can switch that too.
You can convert your songs - I did it when I got my iPod last year. It's not pretty but it works - I'll poke around on my iTunes to see if I can remember how to do it.
But the point is to take all your CDs and import them to iTunes so you don't have to lug around your CD collection anymore. My problem now is that I have an external hard-drive to store all my music and my computer won't let me connect the external drive and my iPod at the same time, so I haven't been able to update my iPod in weeks.
I'll check it out and let you know about converting songs.
Jenny
Yeah, Jay have you loaded all your CD's onto it yet? And if you buy albums over iTunes the price per song drops substantially.
Loading CD's is extremely simple. Open iTunes, stick in your CD. when it appears in the "source" box on the left side of your screen, click on it and click the big import button in the top right.
Or Jay, if you use a free downloading service like Morpheus or Limewire (although these will sometimes screw with your computer and slow it down) you can download songs at an unlimited rate for free. Just make sure they go into either a "My Music" folder or "Morpheus or Limewire or Whatever Download Folder." Then you just click on the songs in that folder and drag them over you iTunes library and they drop them in for you.
"File"-"Add File (or Folder) to Library" also works to add one or a whole bunch of songs into your library from an outside folder. DON'T USE KAZAA. So many problems with that program. I've never used Morpheus, but Limewire seems to work fine. You should also be able to convert files just by right-clicking and choosing "convert media format."
Jenny, has your iPod been enabled for disk use by iTunes? I don't know for sure but this could be your problem if your computer won't let you connect what it thinks are two external hard drives. Unfortunately you can't check that unless the iPod is plugged in (under Preferences-iPod), but you can plug it in to check without having the drive in as well; you just won't be able to update. If the problem is that you're out of inputs, you can get firewire hubs that allow you to connect several devices through one port.
This only proves a few things:
1) The music industry has no idea what's going on. Take out Napster and turn it into their own service, and people just set up more Napsters. The genie is out of the bottle and isn't going back in.
2) Apple charging $1 per song. Just wrong.
3) The idea of this is to get more music off the net without paying a fortune. If a "law and order" guy like me is looking for other ways around stupid protections, then the music industry is REALLY in trouble.
4) Now I'll be pestering the guys to get what's in their libraries.
I want one.
Hi nicce reading your blog
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