

Instead of buying a general gift card to iTunes, you can actually go onto the iTunes store yourself and “gift” individual songs and albums to your loved ones. Follow the steps above to move the MP3 songs into Windows Media Player.Tired of malls and holiday traffic? Afraid that if you order something online it won’t get shipped in time for Christmas? Ready to just pick up some iTunes gift cards at your local supermarket? STOP! Then click the "advanced" heading and choose "create MP3 version." The MP3 songs will appear in iTunes and the iTunes music folder.

Now hold down the "Ctrl" key while clicking each AAC song so that it's highlighted. Click edit, choose preferences, then click the "general" tab and choose "import settings." Click "import using," and on the pop-up menu choose "MP3 encoder." Click OK on both menus. To load the songs on your Sansa player, see /24ot37l.īut if the songs were copied by iTunes in the AAC format, you'll need to convert them to MP3s. (They can be restored later by manually renaming songs.)Ĭlick the folder you want, then at the bottom of the screen click "include folder" to add it to Windows Media Player. On the left, click the "my music" folder, then "iTunes," then "iTunes media," then "music." The songs are in folders named after the artist yours will be in a folder called "unknown" because song titles are lost when copying CDs. Click "organize," then "manage libraries," then "music." Click the "add" button to the right of the "library locations" box.

If the songs were copied as MP3 files, open Windows Media Player. Highlight a song title in iTunes, right click it and from the menu choose "get info." Under the heading called "kind," see if the song format is AAC (works only on Apple players) or MP3. What can I do?Ī You need to move the songs into a Sansa-compatible music program, such as Microsoft's Windows Media Player 12, which is pre-installed on new PCs.īut first you need to make sure the songs your daughter copied were recorded by iTunes in the MP3 file format used by the Sansa player and Windows Media Player. But my MP3 player is a SanDisk Sansa, which can't use iTunes. Q My daughter loaded all of my audio CDs and some borrowed CDs into iTunes on my PC.
