song transfer to portable device

[pinkfloyd4ever]

My song files are on I Tunes, but I do not have an I Pod but a basic phillips mp3 player. I tunes will not transfer songs to the phillips. Is there a way to open the I Tunes library into windows media so i can transfer them that way? I've tried a few times but all it does is send the name of the song to the mp3 player not the actual song.

Thanks

[LMITOUT]

Not sure what formats your player can play, but you can drag and drop songs from your "music" folder in iTunes to your desktop or other predetermined folder. I do this to move music from iTunes to my phone. This might work for your player as well.

[PierBridge]

The M4P music files you purchased from iTunes store are DRM protected. They cannot be played without iTunes, iPod, iPhone or other Apple products.

So you cannot directly play them on your Philips MP3 player until you convert them. You need some software to convert the protected M4P music file to unprotected MP3 first, and then you can play the mp3 files with your Philips MP3 player.

TuneClone which is free along with programs similar is such a program to easily convert the M4P music file to MP3, WAV and unprotected WMA. You can find it on the web with a google search, download TuneClone and convert the M4P music files to MP3 files and play them with your Philips MP3 player.

[LMITOUT]

I can play songs purchased from iTunes on my Phone.

[Jim Almquist]

The software that I used was called " Free MP4A to MP3 " and was found with a quick search.

[jwhjr]

You can also convert songs to mp3 format from within iTunes.

[Jim43]

You can also convert songs to mp3 format from within iTunes.

Only when you burn to a disk with the MP4`s. You can then inport them back into Itunes as MP3`s. Be sure not to overwrite

the original MP4`s though.

[CJH]

Only when you burn to a disk with the MP4`s. You can then inport them back into Itunes as MP3`s. Be sure not to overwrite

the original MP4`s though.

Pretty sure that's spot on.

However more and more of their songs can be switched over to DRM free MP3's for 30(?) cents each at a higher bit rate.

[pinkfloyd4ever]

wow, computers make things simple yet hard, tried the tune clone but that didnt work, try again tomorrow

[pinkfloyd4ever]

You can also convert songs to mp3 format from within iTunes.

Yes, i learned that later last night thru a windows help, advanced tab in i tunes, and choose save as mp3 format, then reformat your current library.

Thanks everyone