iPod Help please !!

[Cian]

Well in that case, the software you use to download songs to the iPod is iTunes, has to be. So get the latest version as the one on the provided CD will probably be outdated.

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

The 4.7.x versions can convert WMA into MP3, which the iPod can handle.

 

[John Dorian]

cheer downloading at the moment !!

 

[Cian]

file converters? i-tune? Importing?

now if you got a decent jukebox instead of a hyped up, albeit good looking, ipod you might just be able to drag and drop straight to the machine using a nice little USB lead instead of a specially built expensive apple lead....

Someone I can agree with

iRiver - pure USB Mass Storage, plays virtually anything thats thrown at it, works with any OS. Damaged the lead? Buy a new one in Maplin, or nick the one off your printer....

 

[John Dorian]

OK hit another problem.... Where do I find the Firewire 400 port that I connect the small box to and the firewire cable that goas into the ipod ? do you understand what im talking about ?? I told you im slow ....

 

[Cian]

Does your computer even have Firewire? Most PC's don't.

In that case, you have to use the USB2 lead. Oh, if you've not got USB2 you're screwed... the iPod doesn't like working over USB1.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Does your computer even have Firewire? Most PC's don't.

In that case, you have to use the USB2 lead. Oh, if you've not got USB2 you're screwed... the iPod doesn't like working over USB1.

My ipod doesn't mind my usb1.

 

[Cian]

My ipod doesn't mind my usb1.

I presume its a G1 or G2 that came with Musicmatch, then?

The G3/G4 machines do not like syncing with USB1 Macintosh's anyway. Hence the huge rush by the obsessed macheads to get USB2 cards for their old machines..

 

[John Dorian]

yes im sure ive got firewire ... its a computer that is only 3 years old

i have other usb cables too but oh I dunno HELP

 

[Cian]

Age doesn't come into it. Firewire was only ever commonly adopted by Apple and Sony. So unless you're using a Vaio laptop or desktop, its unlikely you have firewire.

Firewire looks like a USB port thats a bit fatter and has two corners cut off at one end. If you're using a Sony machine, its a little tiny rectangle with a bite out of one side, and you need a convertor lead to turn it into the full size "Apple" port.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

I presume its a G1 or G2 that came with Musicmatch, then?

The G3/G4 machines do not like syncing with USB1 Macintosh's anyway. Hence the huge rush by the obsessed macheads to get USB2 cards for their old machines..

No run of the mill pc laptop. It is a new fangled shuffle though.

 

[Cian]

No run of the mill pc laptop. It is a new fangled shuffle though.

The Shuffle can take USB1 because its got a feck load less power/speed requirements.

 

[Cian]

This is 6 pin, or 'Apple' FireWire 400:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Firewire6-pin.jpg

This is 4 pin, or 'Sony' FireWire 400:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Firewire4-pin.jpg

FireWire 800 ports look totally different from this and the iPod doesn't support them.

 

[John Dorian]

so how can i connect my ipod to my pc ? ive got the firewire adapter where do i put that ?

 

[Cian]

To a FireWire port. Which you probably don't have.

What brand of PC is it

The iPod should have come with a USB lead - the computer side connector looks like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Type_A_USB_connector.jpg

All computers since about 1997 have at least one of these ports.

 

[John Dorian]

yeah ive got 4 of those but the little bit on the firewire adapter dosent go into it. the usb port is too big. my computer is a compaq.

 

[Wozza]

iPods are supposed to be idiot proof.

Did you get a manual Referee87?!

 

[Cian]

The Firewire cable isn't going to go into a USB port. You have to use the USB cable, which would have come with the iPod assuming you did buy a Windows one and not a Mac one...

Wozza - Apple in general is meant to be idiot proof....

 

[John Dorian]

iPods are supposed to be idiot proof.

Did you get a manual Referee87?!

yeah i did ... but you know im not good with manuals

 

[jmc]

Wozza - Apple in general is meant to be idiot proof....

dont you mean Proof of Idiots?

 

[John Dorian]

can i use any usb cable cause i havent got one !