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I've just bought an mp3 player, phillips hdd. But the instructions don't seem to be very helpful

I've got a software cd with it called Digital Media Manager which i download songs from my c: to. So, I'm saving a cd to realone player, to get it onto my c:...

I've just done this, then gone to my Digital Media Manager to import the cd into there. But it won't do it...

Can someone talk me through how to do this?

ahhh the music needs to be in mp3 format right? so how do i change it to mp3?

If you just copy the CD onto your c: drive it will be in .wav format - you´ll have to compress it into a mp3.

Have a and try again.
If you have already got this stumblestone out of the way,
have and don´t mind my ramblings.
Pit

There are lots of programs you can download for free to convert WAV to MP3. Just Google "wav to mp3 converter".

So how do i convert it to mp3?

I think a may be in order

oooh,ta Shagrath!

Simpost! My personal favorite is Audacity, which is also a sweet editor... http://www.audacity.sourceforge.net

I use the reassuringly named Simple MP3 Maker - you can download it from http://www.sofotex.com/Simple-MP3-Maker-download_L4564.html or a variety of other places. You stick the CD in your CD drive, select "Convert CD to MP3" and let it get on with it. Then you move the mp3 files to your mp3 player. What could be easier?

Yeah, but I edit sound files a lot, so I need a more powerful app. You can also convert MP3s with Windows Media Player, although hardly anybody knows how. Everyone argued with me when I told them that I have...

EV, I've downloaded the one you said and am converting now

Right, the cds been converted. How do i get it from the Simple mp3 converter to my Digital Media Manager?

aha! I may have got it! I didn't look at the output path button, but bear with me please

Um........ oh dear. My mp3 player shows up as a separate hard drive, so I can just copy the files to it. Does yours not do that?

I don't know how you program works...could you explain?

You /should/ be able to just move the files (from within Windows Explorer, the system file manager) onto your E drive, or F drive, or whatever drive letter gets assigned to your mp3 player -- if it works as an external hard drive.

If it doesn't, there has to be a feature to 'import' files from other locations onto your mp3 player, using the Digital Media Manager software you have there - just has to be. That'll be, in such a case, how you move files onto your player.

Oh, and as for a VERY schweet sound editor (multiple file types), check out Goldwave @ http://www.goldwave.com/

I'm happy with iTunes but I've heard good things about Audacity.

I have an e: now, which i presume must* be my mp3 player

How do i copy them to the e:?

Simply go into 'My Computer' and find the place where the songs were saved by the converter program, and copy them, like you would any other file, like a Microsoft Word .doc for instance, over to the E:\ drive.

And that's it. Let them copy over, unplug the mp3 player from the computer and plug in the headphones.

Yeeessssss!!!!!I've transferred the mp3's to the Digital media manager and it's downloading them to my player now!!!!

Thankyou everyone for guiding me through the confusion, realisation, confusion, busted radiator, broken toe, tears, yet more realisation, even more confusion and finally happiness!

Thank you!!!!!