iriver to ipod...best way to transfer tunes??

Question

I have an iriver 20GB which i have filled with a load of music over the last 18 months or so. I have now become the proud owner of an ipod...I understand that you have to use itunes with ipods which uses a different format to other MP3 players (like the iriver). What is the best and fastest way to get the tunes transferred onto the ipod in the right format?

Cheers in advance for your help :-)

Answer 1

if you have the tunes in a folder in mY Documents - My Music then you should be ablt to drag them all across when you have itunes opened.

This may not be any help because i dont know much about how the i river stores music on ur comp. but when i have saved songs from data discs onto my computer i can just transfer them directly from My Music to iTunes

Answer 2

You did what????? ipod i don't know anyway the file format needs to be changed which is a time consuming thing to do. Itunes should do this for you but i don't touch the thing. If you have original cds it is best to use them as the quaility of the music will be less by converting from .mp3 to .acc as you have lost a lot of information on your mp3 and when it converts it reverts the file back to original and then changes it to a new format but the new original is not the same as the old original as there is not the same information hope that doesn't confuse you too much