It has been awhile since I've owned an MP3 player. Is there anything new I need to know?
I was observing a friend putting songs on their iPod. They copied a CD onto their laptop, and attempted to transfer the songs onto the iPod, but the ipod wouldn’t let them for some copyright reason or something. I don’t want to run into that type of problem because I am going to be transferring all of my CDs onto an MP3 player.
I also have an auxillary port in my car that is for hooking up an MP3 player and listening to that in my car; that sounds awesome.
Are there any guidelines I need to know about before buying an MP3 player? It doesn’t have to be an iPod, of course.
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I think only iPod has that problem(correct me if I’m wrong), because everyone of the songs have to be updated into your iTunes library and then ‘synced’ into your iPod. If you use a third party file transfer software, you should be able to bypass the copyright restrictions.
In my opinion, iPod is kind of annoying, I don’t like how we can’t upload songs from our iPod to the computer. And all songs have to be updated into iTunes first before transferring to iPod. The mp3 players that I own, iRiver and sandisk do not have that problem.
Regardless, I recommend that you check the mp3 player you want to buy on Cnet Reviews before you purchase.
Also, here is a general buying guide if you are interested.
@cynicaldeath That really sucks about file transferring :( The last time I had an MP3 player was 4 years ago…how sad the iPod can’t do that still. Thank you.
@cynicaldeath has it right. Although if the CD was an MP3 disc you should have just been able to do drag them. It sounds like the songs were in CDA format (playable in your car) in which case even if iTunes could do that you wouldn’t want to because the file size for the songs would be HUGE
As for buying… I have an IPOD but I don’t really use it. I just have the songs on an SD card which is in my Galaxy S phone and I play using the winamp app.
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