tbrochin
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:20:00 PM
I know most of ya'll are vehemently against iTunes and Apple, but bear with me 'cause that's all I got.

I know I can burn CD's from the iTunes program. But can I export some of my songs to the memory card in my cell phone?

Sorry if that seems noobish. I've tried looking around iTunes but I just can't find it.

Thanks in advance!

elk hunter
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:24:00 PM
I believe you can.

My wife has put music on her phone so I will ask her tonight.

Will post later...

tbrochin
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:26:00 PM
^ Don't do that. If your wife could do it, and I can't.... I'll be really pissed. LOL

I guess I should add that I have a Palm Treo 800w running Windows Mobile 6.1.

Thunder.Gerbil
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:30:00 PM
just find the directory that iTunes stores it's songs in and copy them from there to the phone during a sync.
daveincincy
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:30:00 PM
IIRC, when I got my phone (Motorola razor) the salesguy told me I could put music on my phone and plug headphones up to it and use it like an mp3 player. I just needed to buy the kit (yeah right) to transfer music...probably some sort of USB type cable. I asked him if it kills the battery quicker if I actually used it like an mp3 player, and he acted as if it didn't really use much battery power, but I've had the phone probably less than a year and the battery sucks azz just using it as a regular phone with minimal use. I have to charge it every night. The battery sucked pretty much after about 6 months. Personally, I wouldn't recommend using a phone like an mp3 player, but there may be some phones that have some stamina...I dunno.
pacman357
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:31:00 PM
I've never tried, but I would think that Explorer would allow you to tranfer or copy if it recognizes your phone as a storage advice.

You need to know where iTunes stores your tunes. To open Explorer, the easiest way is hit the windows key on your keyboard, and while holding that, hit the "E" key.

Drill down to the file with your tunes. Select the ones you want to copy. To select multiples, you can hold the control button while left-clicking on the mouse. To select several in a row, just hold the shift button, click on the first of the list, then hit the down arrow to select more.

Right click the mouse over at least one of the files. Click "copy", then wait for Windows to copy the files.

Go to the directory for your phone...assuming you've hooked it up (say via USB), it will likely be something like the E drive or a higher letter if you have multiple optical drives and/or a card reader.

When you get the one for the phone, right click in the directory in the phone where you want the files to be copied to. Right click on that directory, then click on "paste". Windows should give you a progress bar that shows the files being copied.

If you wanted to transfer rather than copy, the process is somewhat similar. However, it's better to just copy and make sure the file transfer took, then go back and delete any files you didn't want to keep in iTunes.

pacman357
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:32:00 PM
#4 Or you could do that.

Damn, I'm so used to doing stuff manually through Explorer, that most things are just easier that way for me. I didn't realize until about halfway through typing that it takes a lot of words to explain something simple.

Guess that fits for my profession.

tbrochin
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:33:00 PM
I found a program specifically designed for using iTunes on Windows Mobile platforms called "nuTsie." It's $19.99. Here's the description:

"nuTsie lets you listen to your iTunes playlists, your friends' iTunes playlists, anybody's playlists, on your Windows Mobile Pocket PC. Discover new music by exploring any of the hundreds of thousands of playlists on nuTsie.com. Simply click to add playlists on nuTsie.com for listening on your Pocket PC. No side-loading or uploading hassles. This one-time price provides unlimited access to music for the life of the device."

tbrochin
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:35:00 PM
#6 - good advice, I'll give that a shot before I plunk down $20.
tbrochin
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:40:00 PM
Pac...... HOLY CRAP THAT WORKED!!!

You, sir are a genius. Thanks a lot!!!!!!

pacman357
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:44:00 PM
#10 LOL...you're mocking me, aren't you?
05busa
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:47:00 PM
Haaaa.....Can you get free tunes for ipod?? I only need about 1000.
pacman357
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:58:00 PM
I haven't tried. I'm about 80% of the way through ripping my CDs, and currently at around 4000 tunes or so. I think I could play it for something like 12 straight days and not repeat a song. Cool thing is, I've only filled up about 40% of the hard drive on my iPod, even ripping them at a high quality rate (and I have iPod jacks for my stereos in both the Mustang and the F-150, which is like having a mondo-sized CD changer, without having to swap discs).
05busa
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:01:00 PM
Tunes are alot now. I think $.99 to $1.29 thats alot of money. Anyone know a hacker i can borrow??
pacman357
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:05:00 PM
Ha! Sure, I think I have one from the RIAA here....

:)P~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

05busa
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:07:00 PM
Haaaaaa!!!
Thunder.Gerbil
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:08:00 PM
RE #12

iTunes and iPods will play just about whatever you load on them, so long as it's in the proper format. You do not need to purchase the music from the iTunes store for it to play.

05busa
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:12:00 PM
Thank you
knokmdwn
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:25:00 PM
I put music on my iphone all the time using the standard itunes software. All you do is sync it just like you would your ipod.

You can go into the program ahead of time (before plugging in your phone) and manually choose what you want to sync to the phone in the event you don't want everything to sync onto it. Then just plug in your phone and let it sync.

I have done this a half dozen times without issues.

bgramza
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:26:00 PM
transferring itunes converted songs to a blackberry does not work, mp3's work fine