ipod help!!

You're going to have to convert your collection, depending on the size of the collection and the program you pick, it may or may not take a while. Go to google and type in "convert .wma .acc" and it'll bring up a bunch of software that you can use. Some are free, some aren't. I haven't used any of them lately but most of them you just tell them what songs you want converted and what format you want them converted into (.mp3 or .acc) and it'll do the rest. I'm not sure about importing playlists, those you may need to remake, although iTunes has some really neat ways of making different playlists based on whatever criteria you tell it. Good luck and enjoy your new nano!

Thanks I will try that.

Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes downloaded on your comp. Then there is a command on the iTunes that says convert music to iTunes format or something like that (I'm not on my home comp now or I would tell you exactly, I will post it tonight if you can't find it). But what that command does is basically search your computer for music files and changes them into the neccessary format and then files them into your iTunes.

I think iTunes can convert WMA files to AAC format. But you'd have to import your songs from your other MP3 player first.

That's right...the latest version of iTunes for Windows can convert unprotected wma files.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301509

The itunes software can convert unprotected .wma files but when I try to convert the .wma files it says they are protected and itunes can not convert them. Any other ideas on what I need to do. All the music came from cd's I have owned in the past and range from new stuff to 10 year old cd's so I don't see how they all could be protected. Thanks for the help so far.

Convert them to MP3s.

I stay away from proprietary formats, because they are.. well... proprietary.

MP3s work on both.

http://www.google.com/search?q=wma+to+mp3

-C

In Windows media player, under tools/rip music tab, there is a box that by default is set to copy protected music. If this was checked when you copied the CDs then your music is copy protected. This doesn't matter if you are using your windows play to copy the music to a device, but does if you want to copy it from another program.

I found this out this weekend when online with a person from SanDisk to discuss my mp3 player my wife got me. I returned it and got a Rio Forge and it works great with WMA. And it accepts SD ram cards, so I was able to quickly add 1 gb to the 512 player. Not an IPod, but eh.....

Huh, that's interesting. When you imported music from your cd's into windows media player .wma format, those files should have been saved as unprotected .wma files. And iTunes will import unprotected .wma to .mp3 or .acc, no problem, I've done that myself. But your .wma seem to be protected for some reason. Let me throw out a couple of ideas, and at least one last-ditch possibility:

1. You are attempting to import .wma files from a different user account on XP. In other words, the .wma files you are attempting to import are "owned" by a different user account, and are declared protected by default. Solution: log on as the user who owns those files, or move those files into the user files of the account you are using. This seems fairly unlikely to me.

2. Are you attempting to convert the .wma files using the "Add files/folders to Library" function under the "File" menu item? There might be a few other ways to tweak this; like going into preferences and changing the import preference (this might affect just importing from cd to a certain file format, I'm not sure.) But perhaps you could try to import individual files rather than a whole folder, or click-and-drag from an open explorer window to the Library window, etc. I think my point is, try different was to transfer files from .wma, since we all seem to think that your "protected" .wma files shouldn't be protected.

3. Last-ditch option: burn to cd and re-import. Gack. Ugly, I know. Some discussion of this:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=171237&tstar...

http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=853401??

Oh, that's evil.




Amen, brother. Here's to OpenDoc.