How to Add Music to Your I-Pod, Mp3 or CD

Music for a very long time, and during this time technology items have been invented to make music mobile, like tapes,cd's,mp3's,i-pods, and even cell phones. It was easy adding music to tapes from the radio, but now that we have the computer everyone wants to add music to their new mp3's, i-pods or cd's and some just don't know how to do it.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• music(that you bought)
• i-pod
• mp3
• computer

1. To download music to your I-Pod, MP3 or CD, first make sure that your USB Cord is connected to both the I-pod, MP3 and computer. The USB cord has two sides one small side and one longer side. The small side is the one that will go to your MP3 or I-Pod and the larger side will be connected to the front of your tower towards the bottom or the back depending on the computer that you have.

2. When you first connect the USB cord to your computer, a balloon on the bottom right of your computer screen will display saying that the computer has found new hardware to your computer. Once you see what looks like the end of a USB cord and the balloon saying that your hardware is connected, you can go to go to where your selection of purchased music is. If you have Windows Media Player, you will see two columns, one with the music and one with a down arrow tab in which you can select either the CD disk drive, MP3 or I-Pod. You will usually not see the word MP3 or I-Pod, some will say removable disk storage or flash drive. If you use the CD, you do not need a USB cord, but you will need a CD-R disk,(r meaning rewritable which is important if you want to add music to your CD.

3. Select the music you want from column one and the CD or device you want from column two. It may or may not allow you to select multiple songs, if it does click on the ctrl button located under the shift tab button on your left side of your keyboard and it should allow to select more than one music.

4. Once you have all the music you want, click copy music. Depending on the player you are using, you will see a pop up and the words copying to CD, removable disk, flash drive with 1 of .... and bar (usually blue) moving. Once the bar fills up, it will tell you that your copying has been done. If you were using an MP3 or i-pod, at the bottom on your right side of your computer screen, will be a pop-up telling you that it is safe to remove the USB storage device.

5. If you do not see a pop-up or balloon telling you that it is safe to remove the USB cord, right-click on the picture of the USB Cord on the bottom right of your computer. It will display a rectangle saying it is now safe to remove hardware. If you do not remove the USB cord this way, you can damage the computer, your I-pod or MP3 and you may not be able to use them again.

Tips & Warnings

• Always make sure that you follow all copyright laws
• Make sure the music you are adding to your MP3, and or i-pod's has been purchased.
• Only add music for your entertainment not for sale as this can be illegal.

[L1onherd]

on 2/16/2009 great article