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Question

Free Media Converter software to download to computer to hel

Jul 1, 2012 10:39AM PDT

I purchased a Philips MP3 player. I have been trying to move music from my Window's media player and songbird software by Philips. I haven't been able to get but 1 song on my MP3. Advised my Philips tech staff to download free Media Converter software that will help in transferring my music. I found out you can't transfer music from a cd because of it being coded DMR.

What should I do and what software would you recommed?

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Not one AudioCD I've seen has DRM.
Jul 1, 2012 11:01AM PDT

So what is DMR?

Windows Media Player does indeed add DRM so why would anyone use that?
Bob

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DMR
Jul 2, 2012 6:46AM PDT

I was told by a tech from Philips who makes the MP3 player I purchased. I spent the whole day Saturday and most of yesterday. I have the music on songbird and it won't transfer over. I have music on Window's media player and it won't transfer over either.

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When I use an AudioCD to make MP3s I use CDEX
Jul 2, 2012 7:12AM PDT

That way I have simple non-DRM MP3s.

What is DMR? I want to be sure it's not just a typo.

See Kees' reply too!

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Re: from computer to mp3-player
Jul 2, 2012 7:00AM PDT

First find the mp3-files that you want to copy to that player on the hard disk of your computer.
Use your favorite search tool (such as search options in Windows Explorer or My Computer, the freeware Ultrasearch or the File Finder in the free version of Powerdesk). Those are the search tools I use. You might find the 'wildcard' *.mp3 useful to search with.
Of course, if the player supports other formats like .wma and .ogg, include those in your search also.

Quite a lot of players simply get a drive letter if you connect them to the PC. Then you can use Windows Explorer or My Computer to copy them from the location where you found them to the player.
Quite a lot of other players come with some 'management' software that you must use to copy files from the PC to the hard disk. A good example of that is the iPod, that comes with (well, you have to download it) iTunes.
The user manual of your player will tell you how copy the files you found.You didn't tell the details (like the model), so nobody can tell for sure.

You only need converter software if the music files on your PC are in a format (file type) that the player doesn't know about and can't play. Then you use it to convert that specific format to one of the formats that it can play before you copy it to the player using the appropriate method. But - because a mp3-player by definition plays mp3-files - that won't be necessary for files on your hard disk that already are mp3.

Kees

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Transferring Music to MP3
Jul 11, 2012 10:08AM PDT

Thank you for your assistance. Very Helpful.