Eric_L
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Well, I got an Ipod shuffle as a gift from a vendor this year - which I promptly surrendered to my wife. I thought I'd take her MASSIVE CD collection and rip it to the computer so she could enjoy them.
I'm about 30 disks in - about 10% done. I put in the disk and Windows Media Player pops up and lets me rip it. It nicely and automatically files it by artist and album including the album art. So far so good - right?
Wrong. Apparently Ipods don't read the same files. So now I must rip the songs I've already ripped into Itunes - right?
I suppose I could just rip everything thorugh Itunes, but then the only player is itunes - if I want to use other players (I have a Muvo) I must re-rip it -since I can't find a way to convert itunes to other common formats.
I must be missing something. Do I really have to have two versions of all of my CDs on my PC? Can I not listen to my itunes songs with other devices? I must be missing something - If itunes is really this restrictive I can't see why they are so popular.
Someone please tell me if I am missing something.
Thanks
I'm about 30 disks in - about 10% done. I put in the disk and Windows Media Player pops up and lets me rip it. It nicely and automatically files it by artist and album including the album art. So far so good - right?
Wrong. Apparently Ipods don't read the same files. So now I must rip the songs I've already ripped into Itunes - right?
I suppose I could just rip everything thorugh Itunes, but then the only player is itunes - if I want to use other players (I have a Muvo) I must re-rip it -since I can't find a way to convert itunes to other common formats.
I must be missing something. Do I really have to have two versions of all of my CDs on my PC? Can I not listen to my itunes songs with other devices? I must be missing something - If itunes is really this restrictive I can't see why they are so popular.
Someone please tell me if I am missing something.
Thanks