MP3's

[[JiF]Stepovich]

Alright, save the heckling for after the helpful advice

Finally tackling the MP3 frontier, my wife got a ipod-nano.

So where's everyone's favorite download site?
(for that rare music we don't actually have on cd)

[[JiF][AARP]Tissueman]

What's an MP3?

[[JiF]Beej1024]

I use iTunes.

[[JiF]Stepovich]

What's an MP3?

That's exactly the way I feel

Thanks Beej, I'll give it a try!

[[JiF]Sly Gambit]

Alright, save the heckling for after the helpful advice

Finally tackling the MP3 frontier, my wife got a ipod-nano.

So where's everyone's favorite download site?
(for that rare music we don't actually have on cd)

Heh. Yeah I use iTunes as well and don't have any problems. The interface is a lot better than any of the other pay services I've tried (The Microsoft one is terribly hard to navigate or at least was the last time I tried it). You'll stop buying CDs and just buy single songs but iTunes is doing two things now that help make it a good deal. First they're letting you 'complete an album' ie if you end up buying a song from an album and then later decide you'd like the whole thing it won't cost you any more than it would have if you'd bought the whole album at the beginning.

The second thing they're doing - well really being slowly forced to do - is they're taking off the copy protection schemes. That should mean that it becomes a little less of a hassle to get songs to play in iTunes. The biggest problem I had with it was my initial burn of CDS onto my computer was done via Windows Media. iTunes was finnicky about picking songs from my library and converting them to songs with Albums/Titles/etc. that iTunes would recognize.

As long as you accept the beast into your life and burn your CDs on your computer using iTunes pretty much every other program will be able to convert it back to MP3s or other formats for you w/o problems.

[[JiF]Mike]

iTunes makes my iPod one of the best gadgets I own. iHighly recommend iTunes, especially if you have an iPod.