Please help me play Goljan audio files on my iPod

[DrDarwin]

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Hi, I cannot play Goljan audio files on my iPod. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[surprisedgirl]

convert hem to ACS format by right clicking on it....did the trick for me 🙂

 

[Arctic Char]

while the topic is up - i have an ipod in the mail. first one. i have a PC and most of my music is in wma format . . . will the ipod play this?

 

[surprisedgirl]

yeah i BELIEVE you should be fine.....i think that's how mine is (as you can see im NOT computer savvy)!

 

[DrDarwin]

convert hem to ACS format by right clicking on it....did the trick for me 🙂

yeah i BELIEVE you should be fine.....i think that's how mine is (as you can see im NOT computer savvy)!

thanks

 

[dr.weiner]

They probably meant AAC (mp4) format. I converted all my files to AAC and used a lower quality (32kbits) and it still sounded fine, and took up a third of the space on my nano.

 

[Arctic Char]

thanks everyone. i'll give it a shot when i get my ipod

still sounds like its going to be a pain in the ass to convert my entire music library to mp3

 

[surprisedgirl]

whoops yeah that's what i ameant, im sorry i havent done it in a while!

 

[Pollicis]

Why buy an ipod in the first place if your entire collection is incompatible from day 1? There are so many other options out there, people are just too indoctrinated or too lazy to look.

thanks everyone. i'll give it a shot when i get my ipod

still sounds like its going to be a pain in the ass to convert my entire music library to mp3

 

[surprisedgirl]

because all other stuf fworks on it 🙂

 

[Twitch]

A couple of things:

1) Converting from one lossy format (mp3) to another (aac) will typically result in inferior results for music. If it's just spoken words (Goljan) then the decrease in quality would not be appreciable.

2) On my IPOD I have mp3 without requiring a transcode to AAC. Now, perphaps yours is variable bit rate MP3? I forget if itunes converts that or not.

3) Your WMA collection should automatically transcode to AAC by itunes when you import them into your library. The only exception is the DRM protected WMA. Those require some additional hoops to go through. These are the WMA files you bought online.

 

[Jon Davis]

I bypass iTunes altogether when I put stuff on my iPod. The thing that drove me to use an alternate program, EphPod, was because I could not take songs from my iPod and put them onto another computer (or have my friend give me music and put then transfer them to my HD with my iPod). The EphPod program lets you do pretty much whatever you want to do. Just remember to save your changes before exiting and turning off the power source before removing the cable. Another thing is that iTunes recognizes all the changes that have been made through EphPod. For me, I can use both programs to manipulate whatever I want without a problem.