iPod thingies (2)

I don't want to hijack John's post, but I have a question too, cos I'm
thinking of buying one.

Can you copy song tracks from CDs to an iPod? And if so, how do I do it and
what sort of lead would I need?

Tickettyboo...

We have an mp3 player ( similar thing to an ipod but not made by the newly
blessed apple ) I ripped all our cds to mp3 and stored them on the

pmj...

poota. The mp3 player can actually hold them all, but I have a smaller
capacity player that I shove tracks on and off and it was simpler to have
them all ready done . Once I had all the mp3 tracks I just plugged the
player into the pc. PC recognised it as a 'removeable drive' and I just
dragged and dropped the tracks I wanted onto the player.
Time consuming to rip all the tracks, but easy peasy to transfer them onto
the player once it was done.

kat...

Me too. I have a Creative Zen Touch, which did come with software to help
me organise it all, but it's easy to use.

Splodge...

How much did you pay to rip the tracks Boo, and how many (ish) did you do?

pmj...

I'm not Boo! (Despite rumours from some people to the contrary!) -
But I can answer your Query...

You don't need to pay anything!!! [*1]

There are plenty of *Free* Utilities around that will Rip the Music
Tracks from a CD & store them as MP3 (or .WMA) Files on your PC

windoze media Player (which comes with windoze) can Save them as
either MP3 or .WMA.

Some (but not all) MP3 Players will also Play .WMA Files.

[*1]
The Free Version of Musicmatch Jukebox will do it, but you can pay
for a Version (which Boo did) that does it quicker.

The (Free) windoze Media Player that comes with windoze does it pretty
fast anyway (faster than the Free Version of MusicMatch Jukebox).

pmj...

I can't answer that for her, but I think she ended up with about 200
or so CDs worth of Music? - About 20 GBytes in total?

Tickettyboo...

Apart from the cost of the leccy, it cost me nowt :-)
I took each cd off the shelf, bunged it in the pc and used one of the many
audio software things that came with the pc ( I think it was musicmatch
but I have others that will do it) and then told it to save the tracks as

pmj...

I thought you said (when you did it all) that you paid extra for the
Upgrade Version of MusicMatch (which you had the basic Version of
already) to get the Version that offers more different Compression
Settings & Bitrates to Save the Files at & which Rips at a faster
Speed than the (Free) Version that came with the PC?

But like you say, windoze Media Player (which comes with windoze)
will do it (at quite a fast speed) for Free & so will various others -
normally, you have to Download them, (or they come with the MP3 Player,
sometimes, depending on what sort it is) - there aren't all that many
that usually come with a PC.

.mp3. It went on the net to look up the cd and do the track listing and
then it copied them to the pc.
How many? We have a lot of cds :-) About 13Gb worth - 242 albums, 3628
tracks total listening time 12 days 7 hours 9 mins and 40 seconds worth
atm all on my pc as .mp3 and on the mp3 player which has a 20Gb hard
drive - with another shelf load to do :-)

pmj...

LOL!!!
So what are you waiting for then?

If you keep on going off on all these jollidays you go on, you'll
never get round to doing the other shelves of CDs!
:-)

Splodge...

Thanks Boo. I think I might do all this over Christmas. So if anyone logs
into SiSu over the holiday period you may well find a lot of question

Tickettyboo...

Try it out, look in windows media player ( lots of other stuff thta will
do it, but you will have that on your pc) Look in the Tools : Options menu
and then click on the tab that says Rip Music. On there you can say where
you want the files saved to and which format you want them as ( I would
choose .mp3 cos that should be ok for all kinds of personal players) . If
you click the button that says file name, you get to choose what is
included in the file name ( track number/name, artist, album etc)
I have the boxes that say copy protect music and rip cd when inserted UN
ticked and the one that says eject cd when ripping is complete TICKed.
The audio quality slider can be adjusted to your taste, I get the
impression taht 128kbps is classed as 'cd quality' but try it at various
levels to see what you prefer

Then get a cd off the shelf and bung it in your poota. Click on the option
at the top of the screen that says Rip and it will do it and save it to
your poota.
Once the tracks are on your poota you can transfer them to whatever player
you buy. Does take time, but if you already have a cd collection I can't
see the need to buy tracks from the web ( and that seems to be fraught
with difficulties about what you can play them on, but I aint done it so
dunno for sure)
oh and its prolly highly illegal to borrow cds from your local library for
peanuts and rip them to .mp3 on your poota before returning them

Jeff Gaines...

Perish the thought :-)

I bought myself a turntable and ripped all my old vinyl LP's and 45's to
MP3's, scratches and all!

marks:)))

Splodge...

Thanks Boo, I've just printed it out. I've never saved music to my poota
before so I'm looking forward to it.
Splodge

Splodge

datasmog...

Not directly. You have to go via a computer.
The easiest way is rip the cd into iTunes first then just plug the iPod
into a usb port and iTunes does the rest.
An iPod comes complete with leads and iTunes software on cd.

If you are connected to the internet when you insert the cd iTunes
connects to the Gracenote server [1] and populates all the track names
and album titles. It also downloads the album cover art.

Splodge...

Oh dear, it sounds very complicated Ray, but I've checked that link you

pmj...

No, it's not actually!
It's all quite easy!
:-)

Yes, OK, there *are* various things that you will need to get to know
about, but usually, with most MP3 Players (& with most Media Players
&/or CD Ripping Software/Utilities), they do pretty much most of what
you will want.

Different things do it in slightly different ways, but that's fairly
normal, for any Software or computer Program, isn't it?

provided and did an example and the tune is with Napster. I assume I have to

pmj...

That is just a (Sponsored - Advertising) Link to the Napster Site.
You can use your own CDs to get the Music from (you don't have to
Download the Musuic from a Site like that Napster, or the Apple iTunes
Store etc,)

Well, if you want to Downlaod stuff from those Sites, yes.

But (like I said above) you can get the Music to put on your MP3 Player
from your own CDs.

The Database of Albums, Artists, Tracks & Titles (& Cover Art etc,)
is only used to Automagically get the Album, Artist, Track & Title
Information, etc, so you don't have to Manually Enter it.

Apple iTunes is just one of many Media Players & Music Ripping things,
such as windoze Media Player, MusicMatch Jukebox & various others -
they will all Connect to a Database to fetch the Album, Artist, Track
& Title Info for you, to save you having to Manually Enter it & so you
don't end up with Umpteen thousand Folders & tracks all called "Unknown
Artist", containing "Track01" etc.
:-)

Apple iTunes is just the one that comes with (some of the Apple iPod
MP3 Players) & is designed to be used with the Apple iPod MP3 Players
It works on Apple computers & also on windoze PCs.

But (unlike many other Media Players, such as windoze Media Player
or MusicMatch Jukebox etc,), it *doesn't* work very well, if at all,
with any other MP3 Players, other than Apple iPods.

Splodge

Ta heaps
Splodge

Mike Clayton...

Ipods come with Itunes on a CD. Mine Ipod just plugs straight into a USB
port, it virtually loads itself.