mp3 Player Help.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by carrie721

yeah. if it's not mp3, wma, or one or two other formats, you can't listen to it on those players. you can change your itunes preferences to allow you to rip cd's in mp3 format, though. you can also convert your existing files to mp3. it takes a while if you have a lot to convert (a long time ago, i converted my entire library - several gigs - to m4a and it took about 12 hours.), but you can start it before you go into work or whatever and by the time you get home, it should be done. you don't have to sit there and watch it.

Great....that's what I need to do - I'm now looking at how to do it though and I'm not finding out...wanna explain? Hope I'm not taxing you too much - I'll send you my address for the bill

Serioulsy though - there is a way to convert m4a to mp3?? That would ROCK.

i can appreciate the hype ... i mean, they were the first of their kind - high capacity, snazzy package, etc. i'm not impressed by the video feature, though, and i think there's some good competition out there.

Well yes, that I appreciate - that they're the first of their kind - and it was most definitely a ground-breaking product that has pretty much completely changed the way people listen to music and such. I just don't care much or the product (or the price)

But again, I may change my mind in the course of the reviews and research I'm reading on several products...it's exhausting - but if I can get a great product and save some money in the process that makes me do this: