I-pod touch

**cigar no baka** · 11-30-2007, 01:25 PM

Anyone else own one of these? I just got one and it is currently powering up at my PC.

i've never owned a MP3 player before, but the combination of video, music, etc and wi-fi internet access finally sucked me in. Looks like this is gonna change the face of life as I know it, I've never had mobile internet access before.

I have about 9 gigs of music just waiting to be converted into Apple format. i spent the last month taking every CD I've ever bought over the last 20 years and ripping them to my PC. Now I find out I have to convert them to Apple format too. Oh the insanity

**bigwhiteash** · 11-30-2007, 01:46 PM

The file conversion, (and price), are the things that turned me away from Apple. I found a microsoft Zune for a good price, and haven't had any trouble with it.

I love the feel and look of Apple products, a friend has an 80Gb chrome with black face iPod that looks absolutely Bitchin'!

That iPod Touch looks Wicked

**spiffykyle** · 11-30-2007, 01:59 PM

Dude, before you start converting all of your music...

ipods play MP3's. The only music I have in AAC format on my computer is what I've bought through itunes.

spiffy

**bigwhiteash** · 11-30-2007, 02:09 PM

Yeah, I have all my CD's ripped in WMA format, not Apple compatible

**cigar no baka** · 11-30-2007, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by spiffykyle

Dude, before you start converting all of your music...

ipods play MP3's. The only music I have in AAC format on my computer is what I've bought through itunes.

spiffy

Oh, so I don't have to put them into Itunes before I load them into the Ipod? That's great to know. They don't put any instruction manuals into Ipods so I will go online and look up how to load songs w/o using Itunes. Thanks for the tip. Gonna save me tons of time.

**heftysmokes** · 11-30-2007, 04:31 PM

You can keep your mp3 formatted music and still play it in itunes. It should give you the choice after installing itunes whether or not you'd like to convert to the aac format.
One thing to keep in mind: after itunes is installed, when you put a new cd into your computer to import into itunes, it will automatically import it in the aac format. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but if in the future, you ever decide to switch to a different brand of music player, they will more than likely not play when in aac format.

**cigar no baka** · 11-30-2007, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by heftysmokes

You can keep your mp3 formatted music and still play it in itunes. It should give you the choice after installing itunes whether or not you'd like to convert to the aac format.
One thing to keep in mind: after itunes is installed, when you put a new cd into your computer to import into itunes, it will automatically import it in the aac format. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but if in the future, you ever decide to switch to a different brand of music player, they will more than likely not play when in aac format.

Well, I have chosen Windows Media Player as my default, and when I insert a CD into my PC, it still comes up with WMP evenafter I installed itunes. I think I chose the right option when installing itunes to make sure it was not the default player.

**spiffykyle** · 11-30-2007, 04:33 PM

You need them in itunes before you can sync your ipod, however itunes plays more than jus AAC. It plays MP3, WAV, etc. No WMA/WMV since that's a microsoft format.

If you have all of that music on your computer, you can just point itunes to where it is located and it will all show up in your itunes library. Basically just File -> "Add folder to library"

Then itunes will take care of the rest, and everything will stay in MP3 format.

Personally I like itunes for organizing my music and whatnot. I was using it before I got my ipod a few years ago.

spiffy

**cigar no baka** · 11-30-2007, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by spiffykyle

You need them in itunes before you can sync your ipod, however itunes plays more than jus AAC. It plays MP3, WAV, etc. No WMA/WMV since that's a microsoft format.

If you have all of that music on your computer, you can just point itunes to where it is located and it will all show up in your itunes library. Basically just File -> "Add folder to library"

Then itunes will take care of the rest, and everything will stay in MP3 format.

Personally I like itunes for organizing my music and whatnot. I was using it before I got my ipod a few years ago.

spiffy

Ok so itunes will still play songs in other formats even when add them to your itunes library? That's good to know, thanks.