Transferring Songs to Other Portable Music Players

If you have another brand of portable music player, you'll use other methods to transfer music from your PC to your portable device. Some portable players have their own transfer/player software, similar to iTunes. Others appear to your PC as a new disk drive and require you to copy files using My Computer.

Still other portable music players let you copy songs using Windows Media Player. It's not that hard a process; all you have to do is select the songs or playlists you want to copy, then connect your music player to make the transfer. Follow these steps:

1.	From within WMP, select the Sync screen, shown in Figure 33.4. Figure 33.4. Using Windows Media Player to transfer songs.
2.	In the left pane, pull down the Sync list and select the playlist you want to transfer. Alternately, you can select All Music from the Sync list and then select individual songs to copy. note Learn about copying files with My Computer in Chapter 6, "Working with Files and Folders."
3.	In the right pane, pull down the Device list and select your portable music player.
4.	Click the Start Sync button in the top-right corner.

That's it; the playlist or songs you selected will now be copied to your portable device.

The Absolute Minimum

Here are the key points to remember from this chapter:

• Copying digital music files from your PC to a portable music player is typically as easy as connecting the player to your PC.

• You manage the files you want to copy on your PC beforehandeven creating playlists of your favorite songs.

• The most popular portable music player today is the Apple iPod, which uses the iTunes software to manage all of its song transfers.

• Other portable music players use either their own propriety transfer software or Windows Media Player to move songs from your PC to the portable device.