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So,
I'm getting a new car stereo that has an iPod/iPhone connection. It might be time to catch up with current technology but I need a few questions answering by you fine people if you can please?
Can they play normal mp3 music files? I have loads of these and don't want to have to convert them all.
Can they play DivX movies?
Does everything have to go through iTunes thingy?
How much are songs/albums?
Many thanks.
Yes to MP3.
No to divx, but easy to convert to MP4.
There are alternatives for managing music if you're particularly itunes-averse, but I find it fine.
Depends, current chart albums usually £7.99, although plenty for under a fiver. Chart songs usually 99p, although a random album track is likely to be much less. If I'm buying digital music, I tend to do it from the Amazon MP3 store instead and they tend to have more interesting bargain stuff than the itunes store.
So, I can just drop my mp3 files on an iPod or iPhone and play them no problem?
Mmmm, sounds too good to be true...
I can just drop my mp3 files on an iPod or iPhone?
copied 4GB of mp3 music off windows media player (via a flash drive) and imported them into i-tunes.
worked no problem (well other than lack of familiarity with i-tunes). they played alright.
So, I can just drop my mp3 files on an iPod or iPhone and play them no problem?Mmmm, sounds too good to be true...
Of course, why not? Unless there's DRM on the mp3 files, in which case you'll need to do something about that.
When you import an mp3 itunes will offer to convert it to aac format for you, but you don't have to.
Oh this is sounding better and better.
Getting the stereo fitted next week so I'll be getting an iPod straight away.
Cheers fellas.
I've got an ipod connection for the car stereo, old ish stereo so you can't see all the track names, but the first 5 playlists on the ipod appear as CDs in the changer and you can move through the tracks in each playlist - it's just the best thing ever, definitely the way forward.
It's worth pointing out that before you start you should set up iTunes to manually manage music and video. That way you have total control over what goes into your iPod or iPhone. You can set up smart playlists for specific genres or for new stuff or whatever, but manually managing means that iTunes won't try to shove your entire library into your iPod everytime you sync it, so you can select individual tracks or certain tracks from an album and just drag and drop them straight onto the 'pod. When/if you rip new stuff off of cd, it's also worth setting the bit rate to 320kb for importing, this will give the best possible quality without making the file size too big. It's such a revelation having loads of music at your fingertips in the car without having to lug dozens of cd's around in wallets and keep swapping them in and out of a changer. I've got nearly nine thousand tracks on an 80 Gb Classic permanently in the car...