That's called 'ripping a CD'. It's a 2 step process:
1. Rip the CD into the iTunes library using iTunes
2. Synchronize the iTunes library with the iPod using iTunes
You can use other programs to do the ripping (such as CDEX, Windows Media Player) and - if you don't have an iPod but another mp3-player - you use another program to copy the mp3's from the ripping to the player. But since you ask specifically about an iPod, the above way is the 'official' way.
Kees
I still run my mp3 music on Sony minidisc. However
the availability of equipment is vanishing faster and faster. My CD collection is 500+ (really) and runs on a 2
300 disc Sony CD players. Is possible (even if I have to load the CDs on my computer) to transfer my music to an ipod, and which ipod? Also is there a way to transfer my minidisc recordings thru "something" to an ipod?]
mgm12
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