MP3 to iPod conversion?

[Perks]

My daughter is asking for an iPod Touch for her birthday and I'm considering it. She already has a Sansa MP3 player and I'm unwilling to re-buy all the music I've gotten in MP3 format.

Can I convert them reliably, easily and legally?

[Drice]

You can load all of those mp3s onto the iPod without any conversion.

[Perks]

Really? That would be cool.

[scarletpeaches]

Bahookie!

[Kitty Pryde]

Yeah, you tell iTunes what folders all the mp3s are in, then it builds a library of all your music. That library can go straight into the iPod. Couldn't be easier.

[Drice]

Bahookie!

What's a Bahookie?

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[veinglory]

Just to confirm, iPods play mp3s as is.

[scarletpeaches]

What's a Bahookie?

-I shall leave Perks to explain the relevance of my comment. :D

[Perks]

Excellent news! But I still say, "Bahookie!" and then give you some peanut butter.


Thank you for your help, excellent people.

[scarletpeaches]

As long as it's spread on an Oreo, I accept.

[Perks]

Was it always this way? Why do I think that MP3 and iPod had compatibility issues and that you could only buy music from iTunes?

[Kateness]

I always thought it was that you couldn't convert iTunes music to play on non-iPod devices. (well, I mean, it can be done, but the goal was to stop people from doing it)

[Perks]

Oh. Maybe that's where my confusion was.

[maestrowork]

Yup, iPod plays all kinds of formats including mp3. However if the music ihas DRM then the iPod may not play them. But seems like your other player only has unprotected mp3 so all is good.

[Medievalist]

It's never been that way.

Way back in the early days when iTunes used AAC FairPlay DRM you couldn't play the DRM-d music on non iPods/non iTunes using computers. But iTunes would convert the DRM'd AAC FairPlay files to open MP3s.

You can play the MP3s fine. And new music from iTunes is DRM-free.