Ipod question

[Skins57]

I bought my daughter an Ipod nano for xmas. If she has music stored on her computer is it possible to put it on her ipod? She has used the itunes prepaid cards but we can not figure out how and if we can get her exsisting music on her Ipod. any help would be awesome
Thanks in advance

[smoot]

first, have you downloaded Itunes?

[BurgundyNGold]

I would think that your iPod should show up as a peripheral device that you can drag your tunes back and forth from. I can do that on my non-iPod units, so it would stand to reason that the market leader should be able to do that.

[whistleandthumb]

When you connect the iPod to the computer, it should show up as a peripheral device on the desktop. If you have iTunes open, it should show up in iTunes as well. In fact, iTunes is what you're going to use to add/delete stuff from your iPod. Once you have iTunes open, and your iPod is connected via Firewire or USB, you just drag and drop what you want to put on the iPod.

[BurgundyNGold]

When you connect the iPod to the computer, it should show up as a peripheral device on the desktop. If you have iTunes open, it should show up in iTunes as well. In fact, iTunes is what you're going to use to add/delete stuff from your iPod. Once you have iTunes open, and your iPod is connected via Firewire or USB, you just drag and drop what you want to put on the iPod.
That's what I would figure. BTW, do you have to use iTunes or can you just drag and drop via Windows Explorer (in Windows)?

[Skins57]

thanks everyone I will try to get this to work. Not the smartest guy with computers lol

[Sonoma]

If you have iTunes installed. You just go to File and add to playlist. You can either add entire folders or each individual song.

[whistleandthumb]

That's what I would figure. BTW, do you have to use iTunes or can you just drag and drop via Windows Explorer (in Windows)?
I'm not going to be the best person to answer this because I don't use Windows (Shocker, I know...). Common sense tells me that you wouldn't need to use iTunes necessarily, because the iPod can act as an external hard drive, and pretty much hold anything you want it to, not just music.

[SpicyMcHaggis]

I'm not going to be the best person to answer this because I don't use Windows (Shocker, I know...). Common sense tells me that you wouldn't need to use iTunes necessarily, because the iPod can act as an external hard drive, and pretty much hold anything you want it to, not just music.
Exactly.

[csquared]

Exactly.
But the IPOD does have its own file type. So in order for the music to be added to the device it has to be converted to that format.

[SpicyMcHaggis]

But the IPOD does have its own file type. So in order for the music to be added to the device it has to be converted to that format.
Mp3 works.

[helimech24]

The way I did it...I downloaded iTunes and dragged and dropped my songs from my hard drive onto itunes or you can import the library off of the hard drive. It doesn't matter what format it is in because with the 5th gen of ipod, all of them can be used. As a note though, if your daughter is buying music from iTunes, it is in MP4 format so she will not be able to use those songs on her phone, for example.

[hail2skins]

You can also have iTunes manage the songs for you on your iPod. When you rip new songs to the computer, you use iTunes to add them to your iTunes library. If it setup to automatically manage the library, once you connect the iPod, the songs will be copied there automatically. The method the others are using and talking about is using a setting which allows you to use the iPod as a disk drive and you can manage the copying of files yourself.