My daughters download songs from bearshare.com. My only role is paying for it <g>. (~$25/year)


>Mike - are u buying songs from online stores other than iTunes that you play on a iPod?
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>>There are different sites. On some of them you pay an annual membership fee and can then download as many songs as you like. It's a common misconception that you have to buy songs at iTunes in order to download them to an iPod using iTunes.
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>>Where are you going on holiday this time?
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>>>Ah, of course. Thanks Chris.
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>>>I assume you download the s/w free, but it costs oif you wish to get any songs off the site?
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>>>>You are going to need the iTunes program installed on the PC. Then you could add your own MP3 files (by adding a folder or individual files) to iTunes, and then finally sync iTunes with the pod.
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>>>>>I've just been lent (loaned) an iPod for going on holiday with. Never having had one I thought this will be a doddle for a computer genius like me to download my mp3 playlists to off the PC.
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>>>>>I plugged it in the USB port last night and all I got up was a MyComputer window of device "F" (with "Mum's iPod" as its title cryptically - it belongs to a male friend) but no sign of any music files in its root or sub-folders.
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>>>>>OK I accessed my playlists by Windows media Player but could find no function or help for downloading to an mp3 player (you can't even get "mp3" or "ipod" in help index). There's plenty of stuff on burning CDs though.
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>>>>>So I went over to Limewire p2p, but could find no joy there.
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>>>>>So anyone know what to do? "Ask your mate" I hear you say, but he's a computer dumb-cluck and his son populate the iPod for him. And, no, his son doesn't live in our town.