You won't be able to drag and drop between itunes and the 770. You'll have to find where the song is located on the hard drive, select it and then drag it to the 770's rsmmc folder under my computer.

transfer
 

I tried dragging the song (m4a) from the hard-drive to the card; in the 770, it states unknown file type.

Please help

thanks

Dr. Patel

m4a is an apple format. Again, proprietry like wma. Chances are it won't work a all on the tablet. That has to do with apple and their desire to control your music though, and not a defect with the tablet.

really confused now
 

Hello,

well I ended up deleting itunes off my computer and all the songs; if I place a music cd in my cd drive, what player will it use and what player is compatible for the 770 on xp?

thanks,
Dr. Patel

grab a cup of coffee this is going to take some time.
 

Itunes isn't to bad as a program as a whole, however any song you by from the itunes store is protected by DRM or Digital Rights Management (or as ZDNet put it CRAP which means Content Restriction, Annulment, and Protection). Basically any song you play on itunes (from the itune store or stored on the ipod) isn't portable. Its designed to force you to play them using apple products. This is supposed to prevent people from sharing them (there is more programming involved that takes care of that part), and make RIAA and others kind of happy (not that it works) that people aren't being evil pirates.

Now to play a cd from the drive on a computer any number of players will work. Itunes (without changing anything), windows media player, winamp, etc. However these songs will stay on the cd and can't be moved.

To get something that you can play on your computer you'll need a cd ripper. This is a program that copies the cd's music tracks and encodes them into different playable formats. The most common tool like this for windows is CDex http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos. Using this program you can rip the songs from the cd, and save them as an mp3.

Then taking the resulting mp3, you should be able to copy it to the 770 and the native player should play it. It's been a while since I've used cdex but there are (or should be) docs out there that you can read to get a quick feel for the program and how to use it.

napster
 

what if I download songs from napster... then what?

thanks again.

Dr. Patel

I feel as though I am going in circles; if the nokia 770 doesn't support windows media player or itunes, then what can I play downloaded songs on that will transfer to the 770?

thanks,
JP

I don't know. I haven't played with Napster since RIAA took it over (since napster started charging). If it says mp3, and has a .mp3 extention, it may work, but then again, it may not.

then which player
 

what about real player, make that the default on my laptop???

thanks,
JP

comptuer software (especially where music is concerned is complicated).

any "music player" (itunes, windows media player and the like) will paly mp3s, but that is not all that they play. Each one has it's own proprietary format that requires that player, because no other player can paly that format.

If the downloaded song is a pure mp3 (not all songs you download will be mp3s, some will be other formats (different ecoding)), then it will work in both windows and on the 770 (I have 4 gigs worth that will, but use my ipod for music since it holds more than the 770 could). You won't be able to drag and drop from the player to the 770 folder, you'll have to find the folder where the mp3 itself is stored