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mp3 player Itunes compatible

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liquorman

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Anyone have good suggestions for iTunes compatible mp3 players? I bought my wife a shuffle so she could easily use it with iTunes. She is not very technical so a shuffle is perfect, to many buttons would confuse her. But now our entire music collection is in Itunes, cause thats the only way she knows how to use it.

Now I am looking for a player for myself and want one that will work with iTunes easily. I don't need much, probably a Gig at most. And I would like it to have a built in USB port, I hate extra cables.

I reailize there are hacks out there to get other players to work with iTunes, but are there any that automatically work?
 
why not just pick a shuffle up for yourself? You can get the gig for $149 which is pretty cheap for what it is. And you can turn it into a flash drive if needed.

Other option is the iPod Nano, it has a 2gig version if you felt you wanted more music stored. Those have color screens and are super small. Only thing with it is that you would have a cord hanging from your computer.

Both options would work flawlessly with iTunes since they are Apple products.
 
Cowcaster88 said:
why not just pick a shuffle up for yourself?
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I, unlike my wife, am not technically challenged. I would prefer something with a screen and possibly extra features like Voice Recording, or FM tuner. I don't need a color screen, and to be honest the issue of the NANOs screen breaking doesn't appeal to me. Also, I want to stay under $150. Right now I am pushing toward a Muvo, but realize I am going to have to play around to sync up with iTunes.
 
How did you encode your audio files?

If you encoded them as mp3 then you should easily be able to drag and drop your music on with out using iTunes. (This is a educated guess since I haven't used a MuVo).

But if you encoded them as .aac or .m4p then here is the issue of finding some software to convert it to either mp3 or wma.
 
You can convert your ripped music to MP3 using iTunes if you want - as long as it's not protected content, just set your rip encoder to MP3, pick the quality you want, and select "Convert Selection to MP3" from the menu (can't remember which one off the top of my head, and I only have my Mac here).

Once it's all in MP3, you can use your own library manager to sync your MP3 player. It's not like the two players will start fighting if you put them on the same machine. You just have to keep both libraries up to date.
 
Kevin Lowe said:
You can convert your ripped music to MP3 using iTunes if you want - as long as it's not protected content, just set your rip encoder to MP3, pick the quality you want, and select "Convert Selection to MP3" from the menu (can't remember which one off the top of my head, and I only have my Mac here).

Once it's all in MP3, you can use your own library manager to sync your MP3 player. It's not like the two players will start fighting if you put them on the same machine. You just have to keep both libraries up to date.
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That's right I forgot about that.
 
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