Paula Report post Posted September 27, 2006 (edited) No doubt teenagers out there will roll theire eyes at the shamefullness of this question.................But im hopeless with techno stuff Me daughter is after one of them ipod nano things for xmas and i know it sounds daft but will she be able to load her cds onto this contraption....... She has a chepo mp3 player thingy and can shove her everyday cds on that can she do the same with an ipod or do you have to buy youre music from itunes.......... Sorry to sound so thick but it were only vinly in my day.......... Edited September 27, 2006 by Paula Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheNeil Report post Posted September 27, 2006 Provided that you have a PC (which you do) and that you have some software which can rip CDs into MP3 files (which you probably do - that's what your daughter does now) then the iPod will take it. You can buy stuff directly from iTunes but iPods will take MP3 files (you just load them through the iTunes software) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paula Report post Posted September 27, 2006 Thankyou Basically i aint a clue but me 14 year old daughter will i guess know what to do coz she does something that involves ripping and burning or whatever onto this mp3 thing shes got........... So i guess if i buy her one for xmas and just leave her to it. Bset not to get involved................. she tries to explaine but its all gobledygook and techno mumbo jumbo to me........ Thanks for youre help. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mossgrove Report post Posted September 27, 2006 Any iPod comes with software called iTunes. You fire up the software, put a music CD in the CD drive, and click yes when a little box pops up asks you if you want to add the CD to your library. When it's done (About 5 mins) plug the iPod into your computer using the white lead that comes with it and the CD will automatically be copied into the iPod. It's not even as difficult as this description makes it sound! If you can read and post on this forum, you'll have no trouble using an iPod. Simon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheNeil Report post Posted September 27, 2006 ...but its all gobledygook and techno mumbo jumbo to me........ It is to me too...which is a bit worrying given that I'm a programmer/tech support guy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bid Report post Posted September 28, 2006 Bring back gramophones, I say!! Bid Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaisyProudfoot Report post Posted October 4, 2006 And here's another thing - if you get one of those cassette adaptors you can play your ipod through the car's or home's radio cassette player - simply marvellous - lots of digital tunes and no messing about with cassettes and beats stupid car CD players any day. My older kids have ipods and love them - keep the receipt though as they do have a tendancy to break - or maybe that's just my boys' usage Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paula Report post Posted October 4, 2006 Were up and running with the ipod nanos................. Now we wondered how we ever lived without them were converted. Took ages to load up our cd collection to itunes in all it took me 3 days solid.But now its done and all you do is choose which tunes to synchronise. We have one of them cassette thingys there good no more cds rattleling about. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
westie Report post Posted October 5, 2006 (edited) just do not wipe the music from the itunes library on your pc to free up space - the next time you plug in your ipod it will "update" the ipod with the music in your itunes library (none there as you have deleted it) so you lose all music. my hubby did this and lost more than 60 cds worth of music which he then had to add again! - just a few of the emotions he felt lol Edited October 5, 2006 by westie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UltraMum Report post Posted October 5, 2006 You can set itunes up so that you can update the ipod manually rather than it doing it automatically ... I do this now - look it up in the help section as I can't recall where you do it at the moment! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites