shazbat

Can you use non Apple mp3 players with iTunes 4.7.1. (G4)

monokitty

Not really... they won't show up like an iPod under your playlists, but you can drag 'n' drop songs from your iTunes window over to your player manually.. and all the iPod-based options under iTunes are obviously disabled since you don't have an iPod. No auto-syncing, etc.

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capitalK

It's funy, when iTunes 1.0 was announced one of the features was that it worked with Rio and Creative players. Funny how the success of the iPod made that feature go away?

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RicktheChemist

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93548

Cheers,

RtC

capitalK

Hey, whaddaya know? Good link, rtc. I didn't realize that some MP3 players were still supported.

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Macified

I haven't checked since my latest update, but up until now my old Rio 500 has worked just fine. As mentioned above no synch capabilities but drag and drop works just fine for 64MB internal and 128MB on memory card.

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andreww

I havent used my RIO in a couple of years (since I got my ipod), but it used to work ok. I'll have to dig it out of my drawer and give it a try.

shazbat

Thanks for the quick and helpful info.

One further question, Does iTunes convert the songs from aac to mp3, or do I have to convert my whole music collection to mp3.(loss of quality and all that)

Macified

If the songs are in AAC they won't work. iTunes doesn't convert on the fly. I would leave them in AAC and only convert them when you want to load into the mp3 player. Convert, load, delete. It should be quite fast. Converting the files creates a copy in the new format so you get to keep the AAC files as well.

To convert, go to preferences and set import options to mp3. Close preferences and go back to the library. Select the songs you want and from the "Advanced" menu, select "Convert selection to mp3".

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elmer

My Rio Chiba works fine. It comes with a plug-in which you must install to have it work with iTunes. When you attach the Rio to the USB port, it shows up as a playlist in iTunes with it's own icon. The only problem I found is that while you are transferring songs you cannot do anything else in iTunes.

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