How do you transfer songs from Windows Media Player to itunes? I have appeox.
900 songs on Windows Media Player that I don't know how to transfer or imort
them into itunes. Any help or suggestions

"otisdog" wrote:

> My Ipod plays MP3's with no problem. It will not work with protected WMA
> files but non-protected WMA files just convert them to MP3's. Or Itunes will
> convert them to it's format as you have found but I'd rather them be MP3's.
> Jim
>
> "sldjf" wrote:
>
> > We have about 700 CDs from about 130 artists ripped to a directory structure
> > default for Windows Media Player, which is an artist directory, holds a CD
> > directory, which holds song files. Some songs are in mp3 format, some in wma
> > format, depending on which of our home computers ripped the CD and at what
> > stage of our understanding regarding how to handle digital music.
> >
> >
> >
> > We upgraded to Windows Media Player 10 and have been enjoying music all
> > around our house. I bought a 64meg portable player last Christmas. We sync
> > Window Media Player (WMP) playlists to it for travel, but the battery runs
> > down and it only hold a little music. This Christmas I thought is was time
> > to become truly mobile, I bought an iPod 60 photo off eBay. I assumed it
> > would nicely sync with WMP, similar to our existing portable device, but the
> > iPod can hold ALL our music, supports playlists and has a car charger, plus
> > with the right accessory, in the house we can play music from it, instead of
> > the computer.
> >
> >
> >
> > I received a very rude, disheartening awakening.
> >
> > 1) It will not sync
> >
> > 2) It will not play wma files.
> >
> >
> >
> > It will only work with iTunes, which has converted some of my wma files to
> > mp3 files, adding them to the directory structure, more than once. I have
> > set read only permissions to the directories to prevent any more of a mess.
> > But now the question is, NOW WHAT?
> >
> > Sell the iPod, or what? I'd still like a portable player to hold all our
> > music. If I can carry our pictures with us too, that would be great. The
> > iPod even has PDA functions. I'd love that. I carry a Blackberry from my
> > employer, but my wife uses an old Palm, if her mp3 player replaced the Palm
> > that would be great. She uses Outlook for email, calendar and contacts,
> > Outlook integration would be very nice.
> >
> >
> >
> > It seems both Anapod Explorer and XPlay2 are reasonable solutions.
> >
> >
> >
> > Please help me understand why I would choose one software over the other.
> >
> >
> >