Heavy-Dee

I bought my first iPod today for a trip to China in a week. It's a 4 gb nano. I have a bunch of music that I bough legally via download from MusicMatch that iTunes doesn't seem to want to convert to WMA due to right protection. But I know that I bought it. Is there a way around this?

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ND4SPD

Burn it to CD and import it into iTunes.

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SheepOfBlue

though I would think about using a lossless codec

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CBR929RE

stupid apple products

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Heavy-Dee

That did it. Thanks.

So far I'm liking the pod itself, but iTunes sorta blows.

HD

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ND4SPD

Stuff for your iPod

There really isn't anything fancy about iTunes, it works well though.

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CBR929RE

yeah except you can't just take a bunch of songs and listen to them in the order you want. I wanna playlist thats in my order not iTunes's order.
I never have liked iTunes but SoundJamMP was never updated for OSX so there isn't a lot of choice.

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ND4SPD

Yeah, it sorts them by name, artist and genre. You could always edit the title of the song and put a number in front of the song title and order it that way

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JH41

Take the Nano back!

I've been using a Creative Vision 30gb model. You make your playlist thru windows media and its much less of a hassle than any ipod i've used/owned. Other Creative mp3 players have been much more user friendly for me also (especially on the bike)

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SomeStrangeGuy

Windoze is the hassle!

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clutchslip

What the heck are you guys talking about? I have had every generation of ipod/itunes and I have always been able to make a playlist in any order I want.

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SheepOfBlue

Yep and you can hit shuffle and it will randomize them What kind of order is forced on you? I drop them in a play list and that is the order until I move them or shuffle them

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RedRider

Get XPlay and shitcan iTunes. It makes managing your iPod and playlists a breeze.

Mediafour | XPlay - The Ultimate iPod add-on

Heavy-Dee

Excellent. I'll check it out. Thanks.

For the record, if I can't have albums play in the order in which they were published I will probably take it back.

HD

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SheepOfBlue

TURN OFF SHUFFLE it is a selection in the iTunes menu

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clutchslip

I guess we're on filter, sheep.

This appears to be a classic case of operator error.

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Heavy-Dee

No, it seems to be working fine. We're cool.

HD

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SomeStrangeGuy

Yeah, a layer 8 issue.


HD - I just tested this and whatever order you put the playlist together is the order in which it plays...and you can sort it if you want by artist or genre etc. and if you save it (create it) like that it will play. Only time its diff is if Shuffle Songs is on.

Now bear in mind there are 3 ways to shuffle:
Main Menu -> 'Shuffle Songs'
Main Menu -> Settings -> 'Shuffle: Album' 'Shuffle: Song'

If the any of these are on, all bets are off.



One nice feature that you cannot do in the older versions of itunes that I think is really nice but simple is the ability to mass select 'do not play in shuffle'. So if you have that Paris Hilton song on there but don't want it coming out of our stereo with others around - it won't. I mean, just saying...ya know, if ya have some music like that, cause, not me, I don't or anything..but if I did...ya know, I'd like to use that function.


Actually I use that function primarily for weirder electronic stuff, where a session is really just chopped up into a few tracks for purposes of easier listening if you don't have 84 minutes to skip through it.


Did I mention the next ipod will have A2DP via Bluetooth? that will be cool

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SomeStrangeGuy

You should know I had a longass reply coming, couldn't you have at least waited so I felt better? damn you

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Btw, got one of these yet...money well spent

iSkin for iPod nano (aluminum)

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Shit...didn't see that special edition thing before...make that 100$ I have now spent on Nano cases

HD - if you need a Nano case let me know before you buy one...I have several.

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CBR929RE

shuffle is not on. I can go into my mp3 folder and pick say 5 random songs from 5 different artists. after selecting them I hit open. iTunes pops up and they aren't in the order in which I selected them but the first one I selected will play first but the rest will shuffle through randomly it appears. this is just in the library as I don't want to have to make playlistsbecause I'm just picking random songs and a playlist wouldn't make any sense since I'd have to reaarange it each time. I just wanna pick the songs I wanna listen to right at that moment and listen to them in the order I want. It won't let me put them in the order I want.

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SomeStrangeGuy

uh, if you use itunes properly...it will work fine.

example 1:
wtf

Itunes is a library manager, not just a player app? at least in Windows thats how it works...and yes if I do the same thing in Windows I dont really have any control.

Is this different on a mac?

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Heavy-Dee

Uh, who cares?

Let me know what skins you have and what you want for it. I've got the new nano which is smaller than the original.

HD

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CBR929RE

so how can I just pick 5 random songs and get them to play in the order I want?
do I have to make a new playlist each time?

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SomeStrangeGuy

I have the new 8gig myself, and the 3 pack of clear/white/black skins from the iskin store.

I'll send ya two of the skins, the belt clip and the visor cover for eh I dunno, 38$ shipped from them for 3....is 25$ fair shipped?

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PM yo

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SheepOfBlue

yes and yes. Though in iTunes you can do a party shuffle also. Or a smart list (lots of options including a number of random songs)

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CBR929RE

so you're saying in order for me to get it to play the songs I want in the order I want I have to make a new playlist each time?
screw that, I'll stick mostly to CDs

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