Can someone tell me the fastest way to import MP3s directly from a cd to iTunes?  Thanks!?
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I'm not following what you want to do here. If you want to add them to iTunes, just drag and drop them onto iTunes, and it will add then to your library; that's what importing a CD *does*, is add the tracks on it to your library.\n\niTunes will not try to re-encode the tracks, if that's what you're concerned about; it can already tell they're MP3s and will just store them.
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Hi there,\n\n  I just got myself the new ipod shuffle & so I've just had to teach myself to get songs from CD & media library onto it.  Firstly you have to download itunes.  I-tunes only takes mp3 songs, so if you have .wma files you will need to find a file converter that converts .wma (windows media audio) files into mp3 format.  I downloaded a program called SWITCH off the internet for free & it is easy to use.  Then you go into i-tunes, go to file, then add folder to library, then add all the songs that are in mp3 format.  From then on you can sync up your ipod with all your tunes! Hope this helps!
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Yeah Its odd, but if you have your iTunes window open now, on the side panel there are your sub-menus (Library, podcasts, videos, etc) Ok in my window under music store there should be something like limewire tunes. There you can get your music from Limewire. \nNow If you dont have that then you have to do it this way, \nIn iTunes Go to file, then click Add File to Library, \nclick the drop down menu and click on local disk (C:). \nAfter that click Documents and Settings, \nthen click shared. \nYour Music should be there. \nLet me Know If that works
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Long way is to burn the mp3 files to an audio CD, then rip the files back from the Audio CD using Media Player, be sure to set the file format preference to \nwindows-media-lossless-compression.
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Trust me, the mp3s don't sound as good as your CDs. Like you, I've spent a great deal of money on CDs, but I also own an iPod so I can take my catalog on the go. I've used the standard compression of 128kbps to transfer my music to iTunes and at that rate, about 1.4 hours only takes 80Mb of space, where 80 minutes of uncompressed audio on a CD uses 700Mb of space. That means there is a lot of information thrown away in the compression process. Now for what it is, it sounds very good, but the hard copy CD will always be better sounding than the mp3. Some people say they don't hear the difference, others do....that includes me! While listening in the car with road noise and other distracting sounds, that's a fair trade off for me, but when I get home, the CDs still go in the expensive sound equipment because at home it's quiet and I can hear what's missing from the mp3s. So don't go selling off your CD collection because computers crash and mp3 players crash. Sometimes lightening gets it all at the same time....I've had it happen. You'll need the hard copies to re-load the computer and mp3 player. Because of that, I've loaded everything on an external hard drive and keep it away from the computer unless I need to update it. Oh, even though I've loaded all of my album artwork to my computer and iPod, you can't go through the pages and read the liner notes and stuff on an mp3 player...\n\nIt is nice to pull any album I want in the car or randomly shuffle tunes I haven't heard in a long time without searching through my collection of CDs.\n\nOne day someone may be looking for something you have and you can say "Oh yes, I have an original uncompressed CD if you would like a hard copy of it". I do have a few CDs that are long out of print and you can't even find them online for download!\n\nBuying CDs was a good choice...be proud of your collection!!
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First put your audiobook in a playlist. Then to create a CD (to be played in regular CD player):\n"\nIf your computer has an internal CD-RW drive or SuperDrive, you can make your own audio CDs containing the songs you add to a playlist. (Some external CD burners may also work with iTunes.) You can listen to the audio CDs you create in iTunes in most consumer CD players and on your computer. \n\niTunes converts the songs to standard audio files before writing them to the CD. You can fit about 74 minutes of music, or about 20 songs, on a 650 MB CD-R disc. Some discs allow 80 minutes (700 MB) of music.\n\n1.\n\nChoose iTunes > Preferences, then click the Advanced button at the top of the window and click Burning.\n\n2.\n\nChoose Audio CD as the Disc Format.\n\n3.\n\nTo have all the songs on the CD play at the same volume level, select the Sound Check checkbox.\n\n4.\n\nClick OK.\n\n5.\n\nSelect the playlist containing the songs you want to burn to the CD, and make sure all the songs you want to include on the CD have a checkmark beside them.\n\nYou can only burn a CD from the songs in an iTunes playlist (not from a playlist on an iPod), and only checked songs are included. For instructions on creating a playlist, click "Tell me more."\n\n6.\n\nClick the Burn Disc button in the upper-right corner of the iTunes window.\n\n7.\n\nInsert a blank CD-R disc and click Burn Disc again.\n\nIf you plan to play the CD on a consumer CD player, you need to use a blank CD-R disc, not a CD-RW disc.\n\nIf the playlist contains more songs than will fit on the CD, iTunes will burn as many songs as will fit on one disc, and then ask you to insert another disc to continue burning the remaining songs. (You can see the size of the selected playlist at the bottom of the iTunes window.)\n\nIf the playlist contains any songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store, you can only burn the playlist seven times.\n\nIf the playlist contains songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store and includes a very long song (longer than a CD), you may see a dialog telling you that you need to put the long song in its own playlist, and then burn that single-song playlist separately.\n\nIf the playlist includes Audible spoken word content with chapter markers, the chapters are burned as separate tracks.\n\nIt takes several minutes to burn an audio CD. You can cancel the burn by clicking the X next to the progress bar, but since you can use CD-R discs only once, you won't be able to use the CD after canceling.\n"\n\nFor MP3 player, you would just copy the files to the MP3 player, assuming the files are in MP3 format. If not follow these steps for the files that are not in MP3 format:\n\nTo convert a song's file format:\n\n1.\n\nChoose iTunes > Preferences, then click the Advanced button at the top of the window and click Importing.\n\n2.\n\nFrom the Import Using pop-up menu, choose the encoding format that you want to convert the song to, then click OK to save the settings.\n\n3.\n\nSelect one or more songs in your library, then choose Advanced > Convert Selection to MP3, Convert Selection to AAC, Convert Selection to Apple Lossless, Convert Selection to AIFF, or Convert Selection to WAV. (The menu item changes to show what's selected in your Importing preferences.)\n\nTo convert all the songs in a folder or on a disk, hold down the Option key and choose Advanced > "Convert Selection to," then choose the folder or disk containing the songs you want to convert. All the songs in the folder or on the disk will be converted except songs you purchased from the Music Store. (Purchased songs are encoded using a protected AAC format that prevents them from being converted.)\n\n\n\nThe files are in the folder "Music", "ITunes Music" and then a sub folder depending how you named things in itunes.
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I've used both, and i gotta go with iTunes. Yea, it sounds better on the computer than when ya burn iTunes bought tracks to disc. But, if you're just lookin' to play music, get the new iTunes if ya haven't already, and use that.\n\nDFX is a WASTE of money, especially with Windows Media, as it already has an Equalizer, and i've never had a problem with just that. :)
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Windows Media Player Should Do It...Assuming You're Running Windows...Just Insert The CD...Open Up Media Player...Media Player Should Recognize The Disc And Display Something Like 'Track 1' 'Track 2' And So On....Click The Ones You Wanna Rip(Make Mp3)And Then Click The Rip Button At The Top Of Media Player And It Will Save The Ripped TracksTo My Music Folder I Figure...Must Be In Full Mode...Not Skins.....
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well, hopefully you have a cd drive on your computer. you can download a free program called CDex http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/ and that will let you rip songs off of your CDs and turn them into MP3s.
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Well to copy music cd directly, you have to make sure your not breaking any copyright laws. Most music albums today are protected by anti-piracy laws. \n\nMusic match and Nero work best as well as the latest Windows Media player.\n\nHow do I copy my music CD to my computer? \n\nPlace the audio CD into the CD-ROM\nStart Windows Media Player and select "Copy from CD" from the menu on the left. \nOnce Media Player has updated the artists and track titles, select "Copy Music" from the top menu.
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I have burned all of my mp3 files to cd's in data format.  I use wma format though.  I can fit about 14 albums on 1 cd.  it is great!  \nI have also bought a player that plays them from the data format and I can place 1 disc in and listen literally for hours.
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If the files are mp3 format, you just need to copy and paste them from whichever drive they are current in (usually the c: drive), into the mp3 player drive, (usually the e: drive) Trust me though, if you use the Sony software, SonicStage, it will make things a lot easier, you can have it autoscan your computer for every music file, then import them easily onto SonicStage compatible devices (any Sony MP3) player. I have two Sony mp3 players, so hit me up if you have any other questions.
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Follow these steps:\n1. Download iTunes from http://www.apple.com and install it on your computer.\n2. Run iTunes on your computer.\n3. Make sure iTunes know about where your music is. When you install it you can have it search for you music or:\n3a. If your music is already on your computer, click on the library icon on the left of iTunes and open a file window and drag the music files into the large window on the right. If the music is not in mp3 format you must select one or more songs, right click your mouse, and select "Convert Selection to MP3".\n3b. If your music is on CD, insert the CD into the CD player in your computer (you must have one for this to work) and iTunes will read it. Once the songs are displayed, highlight all of them (press Ctrl A after clicking once on one song), right click on the hightlighted files, then select "Convert Selection to MP3". Do this for every CD you want to load into your iPod.\n4. Connect the cable that came with your iPod with the thin wide cable with the icon facing in the same direction as the face of the iPod. Don't force it and make sure the icon of the plug is facing the same direction as the face of the iPod.\n5. Connect the thick narrow cable to your computer to the USB port, it will be the only hole in the computer that it will fit into. Agian, don't force it. If it doesn't go in easily, turn it around and try again.\n6. Wait a few second and iTunes will recognize your iPod automatically.\n7. Once iTunes recognizes your iPod it will ask you if you want to asociate this iPod with this iTunes, just answer yes.\n8. Any music you add to iTunes from this point forward will autmatically be downloaded onto your iPod anytime you connect it to your computer.\n9. Do not disconnect your iPod until iTunes tells you that your iPod has been updated. You can also leave it connected to charge up the iPod battery.\n10. If you add songs after your iPod is connected, the iPod will not be updated. When you add music after connecting your iPod to the computer. Go to the File menu and select Update "xxxx" near the bottom. In this case "xxxx" is the name you assigned to your iPod followed by the word iPod.
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Well if you have Windows Media Player this is easy. Open the player and go to "Burn a CD" then open the folder containing music and drag and drop the files onto the media player playlist, then when you're done click burn.\n\nIf you don't, you can easily go download iTunes, which is mroe simpler and I use it all the time. Make a new playlist, drag and drop the files onto the playlist from a folder, then in the top right theres a big button that says "burn to a CD" and then you'll click it and again to confirm and it will start spinning and the top will show the progress.\nI find that iTunes works much faster and is easier to sue than WMP.\n\nIf you don't have either or don't want to get them you can simply open your music folder, open My Computer, then go to the CD burner drive, and just drag and drop them into that folder, then on the left there should be an option to burn to the CD, so Just click that.
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You can use either. I assume you have them saved as MP3s. If they are saved as WMAs or AACs MP4s (Or whatever format iTunes uses) it might be more complicated.\n\nTo move the files, just copy them to the USB Drive, and then copy to the Music folder on your laptop. This method should definately work for MP3 files. If the are WMA's and they were downloaded from a service you had to pay for, they might not play on your laptop. If you downloaded them from iTunes, I believe you can just login to iTunes on the laptop and redownload them. You may need to deauthorize the other computer.\n\nIf you have the origonal CDs, it might be best to just re-rip the songs.
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Itunes is good, but very very slow. My weapon of choice is  winamp
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drag and drop your music files into itunes (from folder, not windows media player (wmp) ).  Right click on song in wmp and click "Open Containing Folder" to find them.  Once dragged and dropped, mp3s go into itunes and itunes will automatically convert unprotected wmas.  (Here it comes...) ah yes, protected files.  They're not so easy.  You have to burn them to CD and rip them with itunes or analog record to get them to a different format.