Subject: [Tweeters] iPod transfers etc
Date: Jan 3 20:06:20 2006
From: Mac Knight - mac_knight at charter.net


For what it's worth, I spent a lot of the Christmas holiday changing bird calls on CD to mp3 files for use on a player I got for Christmas. I knew it was coming, so I worked at being ready.

I had trouble getting the files to show up in alphabetical order on the player when I viewed them by album. They would show up by track number, resulting in an ususable file order that required a lot of scrolling to find the one I wanted, since there were multiple Track 1's, etc.

I finally figured out that if I created a "play list" of the files, then viewed the play list, they would show up alphabetically. Now I can find what I'm looking for. This may be a pecularity of my Creative Labs Zen unit, but in case it is useful to others, I'm tossing it out to Tweeters.

I used a different file editor than has been mentioned, called Wavepad. I then used a tag editor to change the file names to the bird names and to create albums stored within the files.

If I can be of assistance to someone who is trying to make this work, feel free to email me.

Mac Knight
Yakima WA
mac_knight at charter.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Eugene and Nancy Hunn
To: tweeters
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:31 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] iPod transfers etc


Tweets,

Thanks to all the help with my iPod problems. I stumbled on one solution to the transfer of non-mp3 files to iTunes. In fact, "stumble" is the operative procedure, as the instructions certainly aren't much help. Anyway, I opened the iTunes library where it lists everything I've transfered to it so far. Then with the iTunes library open (at "medium screen view" which leaves room to work with other files) I go to my aiff files, double click on the file I want, then select "copy files" which appears on a menu on the side, and presto! it starts to play and appears in the iTunes library. Real mysterious how or why.

Another little iPod mystery is what happens when you download your iTunes library to the iPod. There's no indication on the iPod screen of "library," but sometime in the dead of night while owling I will hit the wrong spot on the iPod dial and it will skip to "Black-bellied Plover," which just happens to be the first entry on the Stokes Western CD and thus at the top of my library list, though not helpful while owling. But how did the plover get into the iPod and where is it hidden in the iPod? Stumbling once again, I discovered the library might be hidden under "recently played items" or "albums" or maybe just about anywhere, but not in the "library." Bizarro.

Gene Hunn.


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