MP3 player help

[DrEntropy]

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[William]

Kerry's got the right idea. Chances are the new player has a CD with it that you would use to rip songs from CDs and import them directly to the MP3 player. I would imagine that this new software has an "import files" feature somewhere that will import all your existing music files (presumably on your main computer), at which point you can add them to your player (I imagine that this is a portable player, like and Ipod or similar).

I have two portable MP3 players- a SanDisk SDMX1 512R (long out of production) and a video Ipod. The SanDisk came with MusicMatch Jukebox as its software, which would rip the files to the hard drive, where I could rename them and tag them so that the screen of the MP3 player would show the song title and artist info. I recently updated to Yahoo! Music Jukebox (which takes over from MusicMatch, apparently), and when I updated it automatically loaded in all my existing MP3 files.

Itunes for the Ipod did the same thing the first time I fired it up. I continue to use the Yahoo! player simply because it makes files that are compatible with the SanDisk and most other players (should I replace the SD, which I use for running and exercising, it being a smaller flash card based player). I also like the fact that Yahoo! places the new files in a folder in the "My Music" section of my documents. "My Music" is full of file folders with artists names, inside of which are more folders with album names. To me this is just an easy system to back up and find stuff in when I want to use files on a different machine. I ripped a couple of CDs with Itunes and have yet to figure out where the heck it put the files. They play, and I still have the discs, so I'm not bothered.

-William

(PS, just to add to the wierdness, my birthday is next week)

 

[DrEntropy]

Another Leo.

I use Linux to rip the music files to CD's and so far they play in anything I've stuffed 'em in. THAT's adding to th' wierdness!

Happy birthday Will!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

 

[William]

Just wanted to add a word about Itunes. I didn't think I'd take to it as much as I did when I first got an Ipod, but I will say that it is a fantastic file management program. I've never got on well with Mac programs, because they're always that little bit different and counter-intuitive for someone who has run PCs most of his life. But Itunes was very easy to figure out, and makes doing stuff like creating playlists and burning CDs very easy to do. The only dislike I have of it is the aforementioned CD ripping format, because I'm just tidy enough to want to have all my music in neatly sorted files, and not in a big folder marked "music" or whatever Itunes does. The added step of ripping CDs with a separate player adds, maybe, an extra five minutes to the process of adding new music to my Ipod, with the bonus of creating files that are useable pretty much anywhere, as opposed to in Itunes only. If I wasn't such a cheapskate I'd get an Ipod Nano to replace the SanDisk (I don't want to go running and stuff like that with a hard drive based MP3 player, regardless of the manufacturer).

Hope this helps, JB.

-Wm.

 

[GregW]

Ack! I couldn’t get I-tunes off my computer fast enough. Why do I hate it? When you remove a song from a playlist, it deletes the original file from your computer, not just the link. There is a prompt box, but it’s worded oddly. I also don’t like it installing QuickTime. Once QuickTime is installed, it insists on running in the background all the time. Try to turn it off in the startup menu, and it just reactivates itself. When I uninstalled QuickTime, then Itunes stopped working. Good riddance. I have the Creative Zen photo, so I’m not leashed to Apple.

 

[AweMan]

For playing .mp3`s on my P.C. I use winamp. It works well, and besides My SPRjukebox needs it to play .mp3`s to Mirc {don`t ask you don`t want to know!} {I wouldn`t say in open forum anyway}
For ripping I use a managery of encoding programs depending on what I want to rip from where, what bit rate ETC. For editing, filtering, I use Wavepad. For cleaning up previously encoded .mp3`s { by someone other than me} I use mp3gain. {it can equalise the volume levels of a group of files, It can detect and fix clipping.} I use mp3 tools to fix tags or retag files.
What I have found is NO one program is good at doing IT ALL.
If it can be done to an .mp3 I`v probably done it or i`m going to sooner or later.
Yea ... at one time I WAS a real .mp3 freak, I still toy with it but nothing like previously.
Musicmatch wasn`t to my liking and real player is a leach, it throws its tennacles out on your pc EVERYWHERE. What a fiasco. Ipod, I never could see the reasoning for having one, other than a Status symbol. {Not me} I have a pocket dig cam that takes pics or video or plays .mp3 and can also be used as a webcam. Cost wayyyyyyy less than an Ipod too. What was it you said Ipod can do?
No thanks, to Ipod.

 

[jaybird]

This is what I heard...

Δεν έχω καμία καταδικασμένη ιδέα τι λέτε και δεν έχω καμία ιδέα πώς να κάνω τίποτα με αυτόν τον MP3 φορέα αλλά σας ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ για την προσπάθεια να ενισχυθεί.

I have a Sansa e250. It came with cd software version 1.3 containing user manual, Sansa Media Converter and Rhapsody music management application. All installed on my computer.

What music I did accidently get on the bloody machine works well.

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[jaybird]

Jim, LMSAO!!!

 

[DrEntropy]

*snork*

I also don’t like it installing QuickTime. Once QuickTime is installed, it insists on running in the background all the time. Try to turn it off in the startup menu, and it just reactivates itself. When I uninstalled QuickTime, then Itunes stopped working. Good riddance. I have the Creative Zen photo, so I’m not leashed to Apple.

Big blue Q... I hate that thing. It's caused more conflict 'n grief than about any trojan/worm/virus I've ever run into. I find it on BUSINESS machines! Hate it. Hateit, HaTeIt HAtEiThateit.

Client: "What do you think is wrong with my machine?"

Self: "Some MORON loaded QuickTime!"

Client: "I put that on it."

Self: "Moron. The bill will be in the mail."

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[jsneddon]

I've said it before and I will say it again.

There is a special place in heck... just down the hall from Hitler... for the guy who wrote Quicktime. It hijacks your computer worse than any malware you'll ever pick up. Hijacks file associations, takes forever to load, and just works my last nerve.

That being said I suffer with it because I really really like ITunes. Call me crazy. Musicmatch used to be my favorite stepchild for years until Yahoo bought 'em up and absolutely ruined it. I can install Musicmatch on a COMPLETELY fresh system, install all the stupid updates and it STILL crashes constantly. Winamp just doesn't do it for me in the 'file organizing' department. My only Itunes complaint is the inability to pull songs OFF an Ipod. But there is a small program I have that takes care of that for me. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

 

[jsneddon]

and Jaybird....

because I am a uber-geek... I translated your copy and paste job:


Dokku's any καταδικασμένη ιδέα the λέτε και's not any ιδέα how να κάνω constantly ΜΕ facilitate the MP3 φορέα but your ευχαριστώ "President για ΤΗΝ να this proposition.

Dokku? You visiting Arabic 'Star Wars' fansites?

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better watch what you are reading... the NSA has you logged now probably for visiting terror sites.

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[William]

Ack! I couldn’t get I-tunes off my computer fast enough. Why do I hate it? When you remove a song from a playlist, it deletes the original file from your computer, not just the link.

Err...it only puts it in your recycle bin, even stuff you download from Itunes. Did it last night, and the song I deleted (because I ended up buying the album on CD and ripping it) is in the recycle bin.

I must be some sort of savant. I've never had any issues with Quicktime taking anything over on my computers.

-Wm.

 

[GregW]

True up to the point that the files you are deleting exceed the size of the recycle bin. Say Itunes puts 3 gig of songs in a bin that has a 500 meg limit. You can only recover 17% of the files. I can understand being able to delete files while browsing your tunes folder from Itunes, it shouldn’t do it from the playlist menu, or the wording should be more accurate.

 

[William]

True up to the point that the files you are deleting exceed the size of the recycle bin. Say Itunes puts 3 gig of songs in a bin that has a 500 meg limit. You can only recover 17% of the files. I can understand being able to delete files while browsing your tunes folder from Itunes, it shouldn’t do it from the playlist menu, or the wording should be more accurate.

Ah, I see. I've never deleted a large quantity of files before. One or two songs at a time, typically, and that's because I've got loads of artists with one or two songs on that I'm finally getting around to adding the rest of the album to. I'll often times delete the old files when I re-rip them with the rest of the album. This is probably counterintuitive but it works for me.

You had Itunes delete songs from a playlist? I've only ever had it happen from the main list of songs...I wonder if there's a setting for this?

-William