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Problems with transferring music to my Ipod

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pixelma:

--- Quote from: Ikaroff on September 07, 2007, 02:46:32 PM ---they won't play. they say they "arent found" or something when I try to play.
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Can you try to post the exact error message here?

mikelx215:
Did you add the songs to database? If you didn't they won't show up. Hold select over 'Database' for 2-3 seconds and select 'Initialize Now'.  :) If you just added the songs from itunes normally, it should detect them.

Chronon:
Actually the following extensions are all just mp4 containers: .m4a, .m4b, .mp4, .m4p, .m4v


* .m4a usually signifies an audio only (often an AAC stream) container.
* .m4b is identical to .m4a but allows software to treat it differently due to the different extension -- e.g. to bookmark an audiobook
* .mp4 is the generic container extension and doesn't provide information about what data it contains
* .m4p is generally used by Apple to signify an mp4 container with DRMed contents
[li].m4v indicates an mp4 container that has a video stream and possibly audio and other streams.
So, Rockbox should handle .m4a, .m4b, or .mp4 files provided they contain an AAC stream.  

* Does Rockbox properly handle mp3 streams inside of mp4 containers?  I've never tried this.

yegods:
maybe it might be good to mention that Rockbox won't play songs that were bought from itunes...

please correct me if i'm wrong.

Chronon:
It won't play .m4p files (as is the extension for DRMed music bought from iTunes) that's true.  However, you can purchase higher quality non-DRMed music from iTunes as well now and these files will play fine in Rockbox -- but again they will have a .m4a extension.

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