thirdperson
04-13-2005, 10:09 AM
Hey there folks...I searched under this topic but had no success with the solutions given. Sorry for my newbieness, but I would appreciate any help you can offer. Here's my problem:
My employer is setting up a new sound system at his restaurant that will center around his iPod. Prior to getting the iPod, he had poured the contents of several people's CD collections onto his PC. He used windows media player and all his music files are in .wma format. He also generated many playlists which he wants on his iPod.
Using iTunes, I have converted all his music to AAC format (the original .wma files still exist on the computer...I haven't deleted them yet). So we've got all the music on his iPod now. The playlists are another story.
I had saved his WMP playlists to .m3u format and moved them to iTunes, but they seem to still want to look for the original .wma files, which of course won't play. iTunes will allow me to convert the songs referenced by the playlists to AAC, but this only results in an extra copy of the songs being placed into my iTunes Music folder. The playlist does not convert over when those songs are converted.
I purchased Anapod, in the hopes that it would help me out, but I have had no luck there either. I even tried manually editing the playlists in a text editor by changing the file extensions and pathways, but no dice.
So, where do I go from here? If I can't get this done, it will fall upon me to manually construct the playlists for iTunes. I must be missing something simple. I hope you can help, and please accept my apologies for the length of this post.
David "I'm just a waiter...how should I know?" B.
My employer is setting up a new sound system at his restaurant that will center around his iPod. Prior to getting the iPod, he had poured the contents of several people's CD collections onto his PC. He used windows media player and all his music files are in .wma format. He also generated many playlists which he wants on his iPod.
Using iTunes, I have converted all his music to AAC format (the original .wma files still exist on the computer...I haven't deleted them yet). So we've got all the music on his iPod now. The playlists are another story.
I had saved his WMP playlists to .m3u format and moved them to iTunes, but they seem to still want to look for the original .wma files, which of course won't play. iTunes will allow me to convert the songs referenced by the playlists to AAC, but this only results in an extra copy of the songs being placed into my iTunes Music folder. The playlist does not convert over when those songs are converted.
I purchased Anapod, in the hopes that it would help me out, but I have had no luck there either. I even tried manually editing the playlists in a text editor by changing the file extensions and pathways, but no dice.
So, where do I go from here? If I can't get this done, it will fall upon me to manually construct the playlists for iTunes. I must be missing something simple. I hope you can help, and please accept my apologies for the length of this post.
David "I'm just a waiter...how should I know?" B.