IPod and ITunes experts - I need some help!
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Burning Brakes
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IPod and ITunes experts - I need some help!
Hey guys - my wife bought me an 80GB Apple Video IPod for Christmas. Transferring music from my CDs and my pics to ITunes, then to my IPod is fast and easy. I have a couple questions:
- How do I transfer my DVD movies to the IPod; do they need to be converted to another format first?
- Downloading music from ITunes internet site can get expensive ($.99/song); what other ways do you use to get music? Is it "legal?"
Thanks!
- How do I transfer my DVD movies to the IPod; do they need to be converted to another format first?
- Downloading music from ITunes internet site can get expensive ($.99/song); what other ways do you use to get music? Is it "legal?"
Thanks!
Melting Slicks
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All depends on what you want to do. In order to view it on itunes you would need to "import" the file (usually wma or mpeg) and let itunes convert it into a viewable ipod format. I am not that familiar with the video myself and someone else may be able to explain it better.
Obtaining music is all up to you, there are places like limewire (about an 80% chance the file is not corrupted) for single downloads. Also bit torrents for downloading entire albums or even discographies. If there is an artist I like it is likely that I will go pay the $$ for a CD .. if it is an artist who I would never buy but it would be nice to have a couple of the songs for parties etc. than it is likely I will dl it.
allofmp3.com (think that is right) allows high (read CD) quality downloads for a similar price as itunes. You can also in the options portion import your cd's in a lossless format that varies between 750kbps to 1100 or so kbps for much higher quality listening and playback.
I am still learning although I have 36 gigs of music in my itunes now and just picked up an 8 gig nano for christmas.
Fej
Obtaining music is all up to you, there are places like limewire (about an 80% chance the file is not corrupted) for single downloads. Also bit torrents for downloading entire albums or even discographies. If there is an artist I like it is likely that I will go pay the $$ for a CD .. if it is an artist who I would never buy but it would be nice to have a couple of the songs for parties etc. than it is likely I will dl it.
allofmp3.com (think that is right) allows high (read CD) quality downloads for a similar price as itunes. You can also in the options portion import your cd's in a lossless format that varies between 750kbps to 1100 or so kbps for much higher quality listening and playback.
I am still learning although I have 36 gigs of music in my itunes now and just picked up an 8 gig nano for christmas.
Fej
Melting Slicks
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The CloneDVD suite is the top setup for movie back ups and compression. It is not free but they update very regularly and it has never failed to provide the best quality DVD ripping. Well worth the investment.
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Drifting
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Question...I checked out that website, your right the songs are very inexpensive, but how do these songs convert to my apple ipod, I sign up at their website, buy the song, where do the songs download to on my computer and how does it then convert to my ipod, or can I download these to my itunes file where all my other songs are?
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Melting Slicks
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Download them to a specific folder, say on your desktop when asked where you want to download them to (they are likely going to a "shared" or "music" named folder). From there go to your itunes program click top left menu icon (file?) and import that folder to your itunes.
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cool!! thanks alot, this will sure be cheaper than itunes
Well unfortunately there website isn't accepting creditcard payment at this time---not sure how to even buy the songs.
Well unfortunately there website isn't accepting creditcard payment at this time---not sure how to even buy the songs.
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Racer
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Note that iTunes defaults to encode in AAC. I would recommend changing this to mp3 format, 192kbps, VBR. This gives you flexibility with trading music, if you ever change to another digital music player, and when wanting to burn a bunch of mp3's to a CD to play in the vette. (AAC's don't work in the vette and converting from one digital format to another losses quality.)
I'd forget about the movies. After the novelty, you'll never use it that way. A poll shows that less than 2% of iPod users use them for video.
Best way to get music.....friends. Finding friends with large music collections is a great way to grow your collection. I have around 12,000 songs now and 80% or so is from other friends with large collections.
I'd forget about the movies. After the novelty, you'll never use it that way. A poll shows that less than 2% of iPod users use them for video.
Best way to get music.....friends. Finding friends with large music collections is a great way to grow your collection. I have around 12,000 songs now and 80% or so is from other friends with large collections.
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Need IPOD help too
Hey guys - my wife bought me an 80GB Apple Video IPod for Christmas. Transferring music from my CDs and my pics to ITunes, then to my IPod is fast and easy. I have a couple questions:
- How do I transfer my DVD movies to the IPod; do they need to be converted to another format first?
- Downloading music from ITunes internet site can get expensive ($.99/song); what other ways do you use to get music? Is it "legal?"
Thanks!
- How do I transfer my DVD movies to the IPod; do they need to be converted to another format first?
- Downloading music from ITunes internet site can get expensive ($.99/song); what other ways do you use to get music? Is it "legal?"
Thanks!
Any help will be appreciated.
Scoot
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...and then you need to create an MP4 video to download into your IPOD.
Try something like this. This reformats the video after it has been decrypted.
http://www.imtoo.com/ipod-movie-converter.html
Try something like this. This reformats the video after it has been decrypted.
http://www.imtoo.com/ipod-movie-converter.html