Ipods & Itunes

Ipods & Itunes

[Peter Tesar]

Hi,

The Itunes software can be set to convert the downloaded unprotected files 
to the MP3 format.
You don't need Itunes to download MP3 music and you don't need special 
softwar to copy (syncronize) the files to the portable device.

Windows recognizes a portable device, connected via the USB port, as another 
drive letter. You can then use the Windows (or command line) copy command to 
transfer files to the drive.

I'm not yet a full Linux user but I suspect it can transfer files to a 
device attached to the USB port.
The MP3 player has a folder structure so you can choose to manually put the 
files where you want.

Personally I have ripped music files from CDs and copied them from vinal 
records. These are manually copied to the Olympus DS50 digital recorder. It 
plays MP3 and WMA files. The folder structure is limited but I don't need 
the many layers of Categorizing.

I hope that this helps.

Re: Ipods & Itunes

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:43:43AM -0400, Peter Tesar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The Itunes software can be set to convert the downloaded unprotected files 
> to the MP3 format.
> You don't need Itunes to download MP3 music and you don't need special 
> softwar to copy (syncronize) the files to the portable device.
> 
> Windows recognizes a portable device, connected via the USB port, as another 
> drive letter. You can then use the Windows (or command line) copy command to 
> transfer files to the drive.
> 
> I'm not yet a full Linux user but I suspect it can transfer files to a 
> device attached to the USB port.
> The MP3 player has a folder structure so you can choose to manually put the 
> files where you want.
> 

If you are referring to the IPod specifically, from what I remember, this is
true to an extent. ITunes obfuscates filenames, and keeps track of what is what
in its library (both on the computer, and the IPod itself). For this reason, I
don't think any new files you copy to it would be picked up natively, since you
would have to update the XML first. I don't know if this is still true for the
newer models; however, I do know that it applies to the hard disk-based ones.
>
> Personally I have ripped music files from CDs and copied them from vinal 
> records. These are manually copied to the Olympus DS50 digital recorder. It 
> plays MP3 and WMA files. The folder structure is limited but I don't need 
> the many layers of Categorizing.
> 
> I hope that this helps.
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