How to Download Music From iTunes to Your Music Player
Many people switch from using an Apple iPod to a different music player, which places them in a bind with iTunes. However, there are ways to get your iTunes to your new, different format music player. Doing so requires you to convert your iTunes music to MP3 format using special downloaded software. Once you have done this, you can add all your music to your music player.
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Instructions
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Go on the Internet and do a search for music format conversion software. There are quite a few, and some may even be free. However, certain companies require you to pay for the full version after you use a trial version for a period of time.
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Download an appropriate conversion software and open it on your computer. At the same time, decide what music you would like to convert to add to your music player and create folders for them so that you can save the new formats of songs to them. Some software creates folders to a default folder that it creates when you use it.
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Add individual songs or full albums from your iTunes to the conversion software. Make sure the format you want to convert the music to is set to MP3. Follow the instructions on your software and begin.
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Connect your music player to your computer after the conversion is done. Go to your Start-Up and click "Computer" to view your devices with removable storage. Your music player will be one of the options. Click on that to open and go to the folder where you add music files.
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Bring up your folder with the newly converted MP3 files. Click and drag the files over to your music player's window. You should be able to select all and drag all at once.
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Tips & Warnings
Be aware that these steps all apply to music player cell phones as well as strictly music players. When adding converted files to a cell phone's music player, you may have to add single songs at a time rather than several, depending on the amount of memory and space your phone has.
There are many ways to get MP3 files on the Internet, which is known as piracy. Whenever you convert iTunes to MP3, avoid uploading the files to a piracy/torrent website because you can get into legal trouble over copyright and piracy issues.
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