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Ikaroff:
I downloaded and installed rockbox on my 1st generation ipod nano today, it's working fine except for one thing: I can't figure out how to put music files on it. Or well I can put the files on all right, but they won't play. they say they "arent found" or something when I try to play.

What I've done is just to take a folder of music (mp4s i believe (could this be the problem?)) and copy it onto my ipod. Is this not correct?

Thanks in advance

ikaroff

LambdaCalculus:
Did you just drag and drop music onto your nano, or did you use a program like iTunes to copy them over? And for the record, AAC files are supported, provided the extenstion is .m4a.

Perchance, these weren't songs purchased from iTunes, were they?

Ikaroff:
Well, I dragged them "manually", but I originally imported them to my computer using itunes. about that AAC thing, could you explain it to me? i'm not at all into these terms


and thanks for the fast reply!

LambdaCalculus:
AAC is the default music codec Apple uses in iTunes when ripping CDs. While not theirs per se, it's still their preferred codec. Here's Wikipedia's article on AAC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding

As for your music: if you dragged them in manually, check the extension of the files, which would look a . followed by some characters; for example:   (filename)--->FredFoo.bar

Ikaroff:
Having checked again, I believe they are mpeg4's if that makes sense..

but I don't get it, has my music not working got anything to do with the file format or what?

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