My daughter got an ipod for her birthday and a gc to download songs.
I'm in the music store.
I opened an account and am ready to buy songs for her.

Once I buy a song where does it go ?
What format is it saved as, MP3 ?
Can I copy that song to any folder on my pc ?

Thanks.

The best bet is to read the documentation. Of course, I doubt you want to do that since you posted this. There are also books that are beginners guides, but I also doubt you want to go that route. I'll refer you to:

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/solution-20041215.html

That may be helpful.

I can tell you these things:

1) You *can* find your music files and put them wherever you want, but I would advise that you just let iTunes do its thing where that is concerned since you're just starting out. It does a good job. The files will go under the "My Music" folder in your "My Documents" folder in a folder created for iTunes. Each artist gets a subfolder, and each album gets a subfolder under that. I'm assuming Windows XP or similar is your OS, btw.

2) Files you buy from the Music Store are in protected AAC format. I do believe iPods can play MP3, AAC, and Protected AAC files.

Good luck with it...

songs from itunes are in the M4P format

Thanks.

Can't you burn cd's using these files ?

yes, itunes lets you burn CDs

I uploaded several songs to her ipod all at once.

How do you just upload one song at a time without having to upload every song in her library without wiping out the songs already uploaded to her ipod ?

Connect the iPod, go to Preferences under Edit in iTunes, then there will be an iPod tab in the window that pops up, and it will let you change the option of whether to let iTunes upload all the songs every time you connect the iPod, or you can change it to let you upload the songs yourself one at a time.

Thanks !

Because this is more about hardware/software than it is about music/musicians, it belongs in the Tech Talk forum. It is best that I don't move it there because that forum already has plenty of itunes/ipod help threads:

• Ipod owners. Come here and give advice. :)
• I have a couple of basic iTunes and iPod questions. Help a dad out...
• why is the ipod so freaking hard to set up?
• Tips, Tricks & Hacks To Make Your iPod Better.

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benedict
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