ipod and itunes music

[Far]

i had to format my pc yesterday, so i lost all my music on my pc, luckily i had most of it on my ipod.

i used ephpod (like i did the first time), and copied all the songs from my ipod to my pc.

i installed itunes, and got it to detect all the songs.

i have 3000+ songs, but only 1600ish have gone in.

the other songs cant b played my itunes, or media player. but when i plug my ipod in, the songs can be played from my ipod through my pc (and just on my ipod)

iv found out why this is, but i have no idea how to fix it.

when u go on getinfo i get this info..

the songs that work fine have...

and the ones that dont work have this info...

Im prity sure its the aac format yes?

could someone help me with this, i really dont wanna loose my music.

 

[Blaminator]

this is what you get for having an ipod

 

[Far]

nevermind, ive sort of sorted it. i used a program called sharepod and it let me put them all back.

only problem is half of them are m4a (acc type), so i cant play them on media player, so does anyone know a good m4a to mp3 converter, which still keeps all the itunes artist/album/song info? all the ones ive found just show the file name, and its a pain in the arse renaming 1600+ songs and finding who sings them.

 

[billylilylalu]

M4A to Mp3 = You lose half the norm sound quality.

M8 I wouldnt recommend it lol.
Why cant u just use the normal format they are in anyway?


I use Winamp 2 play my tunes and that works gr8.


/bil

 

[Blaminator]

bull ****ing ****, you don't lose anything unless you have a piece of **** converter, what you do is, for an easy option instead of using a shareware piece of **** is to virtually burn the music onto CDs, then rip them using wmp or winamp as mp3s =/ i guess

 

[Far]

i actually found out that itunes has a built in m4a to mp3 convertor, and it sounds just the same.

i like the new media player 11, more than itunes now tbh, + i can play movies etc with just one program now.