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:

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

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.

yeah, you can convert m4a to mp3. keep in mind you can't convert m4p to mp3, so any music you download from the itunes music store can't be converted. you can get around that, though, by burning it as a music disc and then ripping the files as mp3's.

ok, thanks to goldustsongbird for telling me the menu commands for windows:

it's edit --> options --> advanced, and then choose the "importing" tab. there should be an option there about the format you use to import music. you should have options like wav, mp3, m4a. pick mp3, and every cd you rip from then on will be in mp3. then go into your library, select whatever you need to convert, right click, and choose "convert selection to mp3." voila!

[DrummerDeanna]

This is the official Carrie is my f**king saviour thread

Thanks to you and apparently goldustsongbird - I can now access all of my music....and am beyond excited....

So right now I'm leaning toward getting a Creative

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

This is the official Carrie is my f**king saviour thread

Thanks to you and apparently goldustsongbird - I can now access all of my music....and am beyond excited....

So right now I'm leaning toward getting a Creative

w00t! awesome. if you do get a creative, i really want to know what you think. i really need a larger mp3 player - my ipod mini only holds 4 gigs, which is not nearly big enough for me ... i've got 15 gigs of music on my computer, and that doesn't count the 100+ cd's i own, soooo ... yeah. definitely in the market.

[skcin]

Well, I was finally going to take the plunge & get one, perhaps for Christmas. But now I'm scared. So forget it. I don't think I have the time & energy to do all this.

[Grainuaile]

I've got a Creative Zen Micro 5G player, and I love it. The touchpad took awhile to get used to, but now I have no problems with it. I like that it has a tuner, although I don't use it much at the moment.

Anyhoot, I really recommend a Creative player.

[DrummerDeanna]

^^

Thanks!! Your review sounds like all the Amazon ones - they pretty much all say the touchpad is tricky --- other than that people seem happy with it...

I am really leaning toward a Creative -- thanks for your input!!