I have another kids mp3 player question....

[mommydama]

I may sound like a complete idiot, but can I put songs I've bought from itunes on any mp3 player that I own? Brad has an ipod nano, and before he left, he put all the songs we had in our itunes (some bought from itunes, a lot transfered from CDs we owned) onto his ipod. Can I put them on another mp3 player? If so, will it work with any mp3 player or only ipods? I'm so confused. I've been looking at the Creative Zen V for Maria for her half-birthday and it looks like it would be perfect and affordable and is very highly rated. But I want to understand what I'm getting. Am I going to have to download napster or something onto this computer and buy all her songs again? I sure hope not. Don't I OWN those songs now? I paid for them on itunes or wherever. I want to know what I'm doing before I purchase an mp3 player for her.

Comments

[viggorlijah.livejournal.com]

Download this:
http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/

and see if it works on your particular imac. If it does, then you should be able to plug your zen in and access it easily.

These are the zens it works with:
http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/device-list.html

Creative stuff is designed to work on Windows, so iTunes doesn't work with it. Windows Media Player has a mac version and you can use that with the Zen as a sort of thumb drive, but to get your iTunes store music over to it, you would have to extract the files from their iTunes-compatible AAC format and re-encode them, which is kinda tedious and annoying.

Software like this:
http://www.nesfield.co.uk/synctunes/

Can help, but it might not work with DRMish stuff.

Basically, if you want it to work without thinking or fiddling, you need to get an iPod. If you don't mind not using the iTunes store, or when you use it, working with t least one extra music application, go for the Creative.