music onto a card.

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The Tragic Mulatta

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I am new to the whole music download world. I am trying to convert CD music into a format that I can get into my T3. I have an empty card and for some reason can't get the songs to install. I have the songs on my desktop and it wont allow me to drag into the quick install card box. I am sure that I am missing a step or three here - I just don't know what they are. Perhaps I need to work with formatting?
Any help much appreciated.
Jim
 
hello


first of all your songs have to be formatted into mp3 or equivalent... if you don't, the cd format (aiff) make them (the songs) so big... that they can't be stored on sd card....

so first convert in mp3 and download pocket tunes (or any other player)....


all the best
in your quest


dd
 
Just wanted to add a comment to dominicid's response:
You can do the conversion from a CD to an MP3, saved to you PC, via, e.g., Roxio's EZ CD software. Now that you have an MP3, you can drag or select the file for Hotsyncing. It should wind up in the audio directory (that hotsyncing will create) on your SD card. Then, just select it to play.

If you will load a number of files in the future, consider buying a card reader/writer ($20 or so).- instead of, say 10 minutes per song to hotsync, you can use Windows Explorer to copy the typical MP3 to the SD Audio directory in seconds.

Hope this helps...Like Dominicid, I also recommend PocketTunes.
 
hello

charlie is very helpful i think....

on the "saving" side if, by any chance you are the owner of a digital camera with an sd card (or mmc) you may use it as a card reader for free since, in this case, you will plug thru the usb connection... it works with my minolta...
if not, some very cheap lexar (or any other brand) is providing a usb memory card that includes the reader + the sd card under a very small volume -and price-...

all the best
in your quest

dd
 
Hi,
Personally, I'd first use CDex http://cdexos.sourceforge.net (free software) to rip the cd to Ogg Vorbis format, at Quality Setting 0-2. (I use 0, which allows two minutes of music for every one megabyte of space).
After this, you need to get the files, be them Ogg files, or Mp3s, onto your card. The bast way to do this is with a card reader that plugs into a USB port on your PC. These are very cheap (around $10 will get you an SD card reader/writer), and much faster than transferring music through a Palm Installer.
iiicRuled
 
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