A stupid question

can anyone help me, i feel like a kid who's been thrown into a class that's
too old for her, you all talk about such complicated things and i have just
one simple question which will no doubt cause you all a lot of mirth.  is
it possible to get songs that i got from the internet to work on my ipod?
i have hundreds of songs which look like they have loaded onto my ipod and
then they are nowhere to be found... any help greatly appreciated, as
obviously it's great having my cd's all on my ipod but better yet to get it
working with all this other music (from a XXX source).  I have a 15 GB
working with a VAIO using music match...

any help really appreciated


                                                                           
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    This seems to be the problem. I re-ripped a couple of the offenders
and reloaded the ipod. Seems to be working fine. Now to check the rest.
    Thanks for the tip,
          G.

[ brendan mckitrick ] wrote:

>Giddyup,
>
>This is indeed a strange problem, and it's screaming "corrupt mp3's!" to
>me. What encoder did you use to encode them? Or were they from another
>*cough cough* source?
>
>I would have originally said that VBR would be the problem, but all (bar
>one) are CBR, so I'm guessing it's a slightly dodgy encoding job. Some
>encoders out there aren't the greatest at producing hardware-compliant
>MP3s, and I've had a few tracks that I've downloaded which have
>completely locked up my iPod before. If they've been acquired from the
>net, then I'm guessing that's your problem - see if you can get a
>different mp3 of the tracks.
>
>If you've ripped them yourself, then try re-ripping them again, and
>possibly with a different encoder. Winamp is incredibly tolerable of
>playing badly-encoded tracks, so that could explain why they work in
>Winamp and not the iPod.
>
>Another thing to do maybe to give the iPod disk a good ol' defrag, and
>maybe even let Chkdsk run over it - a few dodgy sectors or fragged files
>*could* cause this behaviour, but seeing as you've re-copied them over a
>few times and are still experiencing the problem, I'm leaning more
>towards dodgy files.
>
>Anyways, give those a burl and let me know if you have any luck.
>
>Cheerios
>
>[ Brendan ] | [e] [email protected]
>[p] 0402 993 798 [w] www.sektah.com
>
>
>
>


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