[onearmedbandit]

My wife bought me an iTunes gift card for Christmas and I downloaded some musicthat works great on my home computer. The problem is I keep music on a 4 gig jump drive that I can plug into the CD player in my truck and it will not play in my truck. It is just the songs I bought not the CDs I downloaded. On my work computer I had to authorize the use of the song to be played on it. I am sure that is why it wont play in the truck. Anyone know a way around that?

 

[fishinfoolz]

Buy an i-Pod... wink:

 

[onearmedbandit]

I have a 2 gig iPod but I don't like leaving it in my truck. It is concealed but a jump drive is alot smaller and less likely to get stolen I think (Plus a 4gig jump frive is only $35)

 

[donno]

I would guess it's a format issue. Are you able to use this jump drive for other music without problems? If so burn the selected songs to a cd then transfer them from that to the jump drive.

 

[sr5mike]

I would guess it's a format issue. Are you able to use this jump drive for other music without problems? If so burn the selected songs to a cd then transfer them from that to the jump drive.

That should work iTunes uses some copy right software that makes simple things more difficult than they should be.

 

[Steve Ericsson]

Don't forget, iTunes songs are not mp3, but mp4. They won't load and play on an mp3 player.

 

[onearmedbandit]

Its not the MP4 format that is screwing it up because all the CDs I ripped to iTunes work just find. It's something else keeping it from working in my truck. I am just not buying music from iTunes anymore.

 

[Iceshark]

Dont use Itunes! Its encrypted. I cant stand them! If your into Ipod then use ANAPOD or convert with many of the conversion programs available.

Anapod bypasses the encryption. Itunes is a total ripoff program.

 

[Lofty]

Itunes uses DRM (Digital Rights Management) on most of their songs/albums. This restricts the user from burning too many cd's and sharing the digital files with others. You can read more about it DRM here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management.

Amazon.com just launched an MP3 store (http://www.amazon.com/mp3) where all its music is DRM free and you're actually downloading MP3 files that play on anything that supports music files. Check it out, all 4 of the major studios are on board.