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I want to get an mp3 player to use at the gym, so I don't really need to invest a lot of money into an iPod, I just need a simple mp3 player to hold 100 or so songs. All my music is on iTunes. Will the music from iTunes transfer onto any mp3 player? What are some decent mp3 players out there? Or should I just invest in an iPod? Any help would be great.

2007-01-08 21:51:27 · 2 answers · asked by crissy9683 2 in Consumer Electronics Music & Music Players

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I don't use iTunes, I have in the past, but I have never synched off of their program. When you get a regular MP3 Player and plug it into your computer, via USB cable, what happens is that your computer creates a removeable disk drive on your computer. What this means, if you go to My Computer and look around, you probably see A: (Floppy Drive) C: (Hard Drive) and D: (CD DRIVE). Once you plug the mp3 player in, then you'll all see E: (Removeable disk drive). From there I simply drag and drop music files from my computer onto that drive, which is actually the MP3 player.

Synching is simply the act of copying songs from the computer to mp3 player (the "new disk" that shows up in My Computer) So my copying them manually is still a form of synching. The thing with iTunes is that all the music has a copyright deal in it that makes it unlikely to just copy them in the same manner I described. Futhurmore, iTunes is extremely simple to synch with iPod, but they make it very difficult to synch up with regular mp3 players.

You can download a program called iTunes Library Updater to do what you want to do. The program lets you synch iTunes with a regular folder on your computer vs synching with the iPod directly. WHen using this program, I'd say try to synch up with the new drive that appears in my computer instead of a regular folder on your computer. If there isn't an option to choose a drive as the destination (instead of a folder) then synch them a folder of your choice. From there you could open my computer and go to that folder. Then you could highlight the songs and drag and drop them (or right click them and hit copy, then right click on the new disk drive and right click/paste).

Heres an article about that program: http://mp3.about.com/od/playorganizemymusic/ig/iTunes-Library-Updater/index.htm

I just got an mp3 player a few days ago and have a great tip for another use for your mp3 player. Check out this product at Walmart that costs $24.86: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4694330

It's a FM Transmitter that plugs into your car cigarette lighter. You can plug a jack from it into the headphone jack of your mp3 player. Then tune the radio station to one of the stations (frequency(s) would be in the instruction manual. The thing will transmit the song from the mp3 player to the car radio (via FM radio waves). You'll then be listening to your mp3 player on your cars' FM Radio station.

You might remember from the 80's a kid toy called Mr. Microphone. The kids sang into a microphone and it played/broadcasted it on the radio. This thing works basically the same way.

They do have something else that does that called a CD to cassette adapter for about 20.00 but the quality is lower and everyone I've ever had eventually gets a short in the wire. My car radio sounds way better with the radio vs the cassette player, which is why I tried the FM transmitter.

Another good thing to use the MP3 player is for a portable hard drive. Remember when I say you can copy files onto it from my computer? It will copy ANY data, not just songs. I did an experiment and copied a regular data CD on the mp3 player and then I ran the setup.exe file, on the CD, directly off the MP3 player and it installed the program as though I were using a regular CD.

Well good luck on the iTunes synch.

2007-01-08 22:46:09 · answer #1 · answered by SharpGuy 6 · 0 0

Ipod i think of is your maximum suitable answer. whether this is not the main inexpensive, it does have a stable battery existence, and that i think of this is the simplest to apply. some mp3 gamers have such small monitors and buttons, which you wind up fumbling around lots. And with ipod you need to use i-tunes, that's super!!! wish I helped!!

2016-10-30 10:10:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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