transfer of songs
 

Hello,

I just received the Nokia 770 on friday; I am not an expert as many of you; this maybe a dumb question but how would I transfer songs from my laptop to the 770?

thanks,
Jeet

No Stupid Questions!!
 

However, I have seen several stupid answers. Here are a few more

There are several ways to accomplish this task, depending on skill level and time you want to spend learning.

The easiest way to to plug the 770 into the usb port on your laptop, this will give you the mmc card available at 64MB if you have not altered anything, it will show up normally like any other memory stick in windows.

You can install ftp client on the 770, and ftp the files, you can install ssh and use scp to copy the files. You can install portmapper and use nfs to mount your laptop, if you were running linux, or cygwin on windows. There are tons of ways to do this, web server on the laptop use the browser on 770 to save the files. If your laptop accepts MMC, you could use the memory card directly in the laptop to place the files.

take your pick!! :D

install program
 

which program is the best to do this and where would I get it from..
thanks again,
Dr. Patel

depends
 

None really. It depends on what you're desktop machine is. What are you transfering from? With that we can tell you the best or easiest way to do this

itunes
 

Hi,

I have the Dell X1 with Windows XP; I want to transfer songs to the 770.

thanks again

Dr. Patel

hmmm
 

Again, the easiest way for you to do this would probably be by connecting the usb cable that came with the 770 to the dell. Doing this will allow you to use explorer to copy and paste into the memory on the 770.

tried it
 

I tried dragging a song to the memory card; it states unknown file on the 770.

this is very frustrating in between patients; if someone can make this easier for me...
thanks in advance.

Dr. Patel

What's the filetype of the song? .wma (Windows Media Audio) isn't supported as it's proprietary to Microsoft.

A complete list of supported audio/video types (and associated extensions) can be seen here:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/content/view/156/2/

HTH,

Andrew

standard mp3 file

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

well I went to c:my documents/my music/ the song itself and dragged and dropped to the 770 d: drive; still unknown file.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

personally (when I used windows) I prefered winamp.

what was the file type?

winamp
 

it was a wma file; I know wma files don't work on the 770 but I have installed winamp, Real Player, Napster.. Do I need to remove Real Player, Napster, and Windows Media Player and keep winamp?

thanks,
Dr. Patel

nope. all you need to do now is find mp3 files and play music