Well i finally gave in but i hate Itunes, i need help!!!

[morgan-tec]

Well i finally gave in and got a 2 gig ipod nano in black, mainly for snowboarding but it is cool in the car too. Killer deal at $100 and i also installed the Kenwood IP500 direct interface. It works really well and is super easy to use with my touch screen. But i hate Itunes. I can not get it to find almost half the music i have on my computer. I have Roxio audiocentral and itunes only found about half my music and then the half it did find it labled by track # and no artist,album info. I have tried deleting it and reinstalling it like three times and i can not get it to work. HELP ME PLEASE!!!!! i will get some pics of it later.

[vxDAKINECHICvx]

Morgan - I am no itunes genious, but I have noticed the same problem that if you already have the music stored on your PC or are trying to download certain CDs (such as burned cds or songs) you already own to itunes, the only way the songs will come up is just with the track number. No cd name, artist, or song name; you have to input all that stuff yourself. Unless you download it from itunes, it is more time consuming and more work. Congrats on the ipod though. I love mine for snowboarding as well, but yes I have itunes issues too. Do a google search though-it helps.

[nfpgasmask]

If you are talking about ID3 tags, there is software available that will pull the ID3 tag from the filename...

I don't have an IPOD (because I hate Itunes as well) but I have a Creative Labs Zen Micro 8GIG and it reads the mp3 ID3 tags also. I have 40 thousand MP3s on my PC, so you could imagine how difficult this might have been, but I found a program called ID3-TagIT and this helped me rename all my MP3's ID3 tags in one swoop. Now I am good to go!

Bart

[transio]

I have a Video iPod and a Rio Carbon 5 gig and a Windows Mobile MP3 phone, and I use the same music files for all of them. With a little practice, you'll find a way to synchronize everything perfectly.

If you rip music files from CDs or buy them off the Internet, the files have all the album, artist, and track info in the MP3 file. However, if you steal music off the internet, it often comes without this info.

If your iTunes isn't detecting all your music, just manually add it by folder. I think it's [File -> Add Folder] or something. I store all my music in the "My Music" folder, and so it's easy to add it all to iTunes just by selecting the top-level folder. If you have any WMA music, iTunes will convert it to MP4. I suggest afterwards, that you delete whatever WMA originals you have and replace them with the relocated MP4s. This will make your library "universal".

[kobie]

Transio is right... Add the folders to your library in ITunes and it will find your music after a few minutes. Sometimes I have to add the folder again later after new music is added.
I have grown accustomed to using Windows Media player. It found all my music and the interface isn't as difficult to use as it initially seems. It syncs to most devices (even phones!) and will convert between mp3 and wma.

[tbigity]

one caveat: use it for music only. I used my 60gig 5g as more of a mobile hard drive. I transferred a 3 gig directory back and forth daily as a back up...it crapped out very quickly. Got the "sick ipod" graphic...now it wont even turn on and my computer wont recognize it as being there so I cant reformat it. I loved it when it worked, but it ended up being a $500 paper weight. To get the problem fixed, you have to swap it out at an apple store...there is no apple store here, I live in freaking oklahoma and the city is nearly 2 hours away.

Long story short, get a different piece of hardware for music, and a mobile hard drive for that purpose