It's entirely optional for every player I know of.
Is there an MP3 player that allows you to download your music CD and not connect to the internet to get the songs and artist information?
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Is there an MP3 player that allows you to download your music CD and not connect to the internet to get the songs and artist information?
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I received an IPOD as a gift and returned it because it would not work without internet connection to ITUNES.
That is, I'm able to put tunes on it without an internet connection just fine.
Now you didn't tell much above. Maybe you wanted an offline CDDB but where would you get that from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB
Bob
Ipod is delivered without CD these days, they expect you to download iTunes and, of course, without iTunes the thing's useless.
Other manufacturers have abandoned silly proprietary software for their MP3 players -- I'd have a look at Sony and Sansa but there are many others.
I'm sorry for not explaining this very well. I did download ITUNES, but when I tried to add music from CDs I already purchased, it only would identify the song by Track 1, etc. Never could get any of the song or artist's information.
The tunes did make it to the device. Look up and research how the CDDB works. That works the same for iTunes or any other software.
-> It looks to me you want an offline CDDB?
Bob
I have the same question - i am going to buy my first mp3 player and have a lot of music from old cassettes that i turned into CDs myself, and that music is now on the computer and I have converted them to mp3 format. Will i be able to just transfer that music to an mp3 player? I have owned the music for years since i originally bought the cassetes.
But like above there is no digital data from those cassettes to name the resulting files or titles. Some forget this or expect it to work.
You'll be fine but give yourself the time to add names, titles, artist, etc.
Bob
thank you - now how do I name them - do I do that on the computer before transfering them to the mp3? Is it good enough to just name each album if I know i will want to listen to an entire album at once? Will the album transfer as an album or as each individual song?
Bob is correct in that you need an Internet connection to allow automatic titling and album naming. If you do not have an Internet connection, you have two options to name your music from CDs. First option is to put the CD in the computer and import some or all songs. What you get are generic naming, like Track 01, Track 01, etc. and no album name. Once in iTunes, simply click once in the column for Title, Artist, Album, etc and the cursor shows up to allow typing. Second option is when you put the CD in your computer and iTunes opens up the window asking if you want to import all songs from a CD, click NO. The window iTunes opens to show the songs on the CD will allow you to click inside each column and type names, just like when you are in iTunes. If you import after typing names in the CD window, all the metadata will transfer across to iTunes and your MP3 player.
As far a importing songs from a cassette, you will need some additional devices and software to import cassettes.
So you don't have to name each track so long as you have a folder name for each cassette/album/CD you've MP3'd.If necessary create a folder on your hard drive and name it with the album title and copy the files that constitute an album into that folder. For my money this is much less hassle than manually tagging songs.