[OldTimerII]

Please excuse my ignorance as I'm trying to move fromcassettes and CDs to "modern times" :8} My wife & I are thinking of getting an ipod and a docking station to replace our worn out cd player. We would like to be able to continue playing our extensive library of cd's & cassettes. Is there a way to download this music to an ipod?

[crazy4laptops]

if you have a song in itunes, you can sync it to your ipod

just rip the cds into itunes and then sync to ipod

[OldTimerII]

crazy4laptops, Am I to infer that "ripping the cds into itunes" means somehow transfering all our cds to the itunes website? How does one go about doing so and would I then have to pay itunes before I can "sync?" them to our ipod? Again I apologize for my lack of knowledge. I do thank you for your previous response.

[crazy4laptops]

not to their website....

itunes installs on your computer and keeps your music there (nothing goes out to the internet)

it should be completely free to rip from cds and sync your music to the ipod

[OldTimerII]

Many thanks.

[smax013]

crazy4laptops said:

not to their website....


itunes installs on your computer and keeps your music there (nothing goes out to the internet)


it should be completely free to rip from cds and sync your music to the ipod

And the iTunes software has the ability to rip CDs into an MP3 or AAC file format that can then be played on the computer or synced and played on an iPod...unless the CD has copy protection, which very, very few do/did.

Music from cassettes will a little more work. You would have to hook a stereo system with a cassette player up to your computer through the microphone in port and then use some computer audio editting/recording software to essential re-record the audio from the cassette into a computer file format. Not hard to do, but it is time consuming.