Dell Jukebox vs IPod?

[LurkerLisa]

My son has a Dell Jukebox MP3 player with 1000 songs. All songs are on the hard drive of our computer. He has announced that he now wants an IPod. Will the songs that he already downloaded and paid for work on the IPod? Aren't they different file formats. A guy at Apple says it will work, but I want to be sure before I let him spend $400 of his money.

Thanks,

Lisa

 

[dcentity2000]

iPods will play MP3 files (x.mp3) and AAC files (x.mp4, x.aac) as well as a variety of others. It will NOT play Real Media (x.rm) or Windows Media (x.wma) files.



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[Anne34]

We also have both. Got the Dell DJ first and then my daughter got an ipod. When we hooked the ipod up to the computer, all of the files from Musicmatch (Dell's program) started downloading onto her ipod. She got a few songs she'd rather not have (Dad's listing of songs), but it transferred very easily. Unless they've changed the program (we got it last Christmas) it should work fine.

 

[Ronda93]

When I first fired up iTunes it did not guide me to grab the existing music on my hard drive, but the File, Add Folder to Library was all it took.

The nano is a work of genius, but it scratches VERY easily (lordy, there's been a class action suit filed against Apple over the scratchability of the face). Get it into a case pronto.

I picked up some socks meant for a six month old and it's perfect (got two for $2.99 ; )

 

[Jeff in BigD]

The nano is a work of genius, but it scratches VERY easily (lordy, there's been a class action suit filed against Apple over the scratchability of the face).

The talk is that it's the black nanos that scratch easily & the problem isn't nearly as prevelent in the white models.