Windows iPod and iTrip

[videoguy]

I have purchased a 1gen 5gig Mac iPod and am considering converting to a Winnipod as I use Win XP. Based on what I have read in other threads, I am considering using iTunes for Windows to manage my music (as opposed to MMJB). In addition, I have purchased an iTrip (on Ebay). In attempting to install this, I was greeted by the message that it can't find an installation of MM on my pc. Does anybody have any experience with the iTrip - do I have to use MMJB to get the iTrip to install??
Any help would be appreciated. Thx!
Videoguy

[ashawley]

No, you don't. On the iTrip CD are a bunch if mp3s that are named for radio stations. Just copy those to your PC (like into your music folder) and import them into iTunes. Make a playlist with all those mp3s on it and add it to the iPod.

If you don't have the iTrip CD, you can get the mp3s from Griffin's web site.

Adam

[calvin_gsc]

Originally posted by ashawley
No, you don't. On the iTrip CD are a bunch if mp3s that are named for radio stations. Just copy those to your PC (like into your music folder) and import them into iTunes. Make a playlist with all those mp3s on it and add it to the iPod.

If you don't have the iTrip CD, you can get the mp3s from Griffin's web site.

Adam

It's not a bunch of mp3s but a *.xml compliation that the iPod reconizes. You have to import that file into iTunes/Musicmatch and copy it into your iPod. I am using my iTrip and a 3rd gen iPod. I just bought the iTrip today for RM200 (arnd USD 52).

[Shadow]

Go to Griffin's own website here (http://griffintechnology.com/software/software_itrip.html). They have a new version of their iTrip software that installs the iTrip stations into iTunes.

[Lew]

Originally posted by calvin_gsc
It's not a bunch of mp3s but a *.xml compliation that the iPod reconizes. You have to import that file into iTunes/Musicmatch and copy it into your iPod. I am using my iTrip and a 3rd gen iPod. I just bought the iTrip today for RM200 (arnd USD 52).
Gee, that's funny. They sure looked a whole lot like MP3 files when I copied them from the CD. There's a playlist there which it installs, but the files are MP3's.

[SolidGun]

I believe the contents of the stations are recognized as MP3 files. The Extensible Markup Language(XML) just informs the iTunes where the files are located. The playlists may be XML files. I would check, but I am away from home for the holiday weekend.