How do I transfer songs on my hard drive to my Ipod Nano?

From what I read in the manual I am supposed to put them in the Itunes music library, but it does not say in the manual how to transfer them to the library.

In Itunes, I click on "FIle" and then "add file to library", select the songs, but nothing happens.

Can I drag them from Windows Explorer to my Nano directly?

 

You can drag them into the Nano directly, but the Nano won't play em.

Try drag n drog the music from explorer to iTunes. Then syncing into iPod.

 

Make sure itunes is up to date. I never heard of itunes not syncing.

Try putting all of your songs in one folder and when you add to library click "add folder" and not "add file" that way all of your songs are added.

 

tell iTunes to sync music when you sync... then select to sync...

if you want to manually just choose some things in itunes to put on your ipod, you can drag and drop within itunes.. the song to the ipod.

 

Are the songs in .mp4 or MP3 format?

 

They are MP3s.

I solved the transferring of songs problem to Nano. I reinstalled the software on the Nano.

The first time I plugged it in, I disconnected it without ejecting it. How bad is that? The manual implies it can be bad.



If I eject the Ipod from Itunes, is there anyway for it to detect the Ipod agin without unplugging it and plugging it in again?

Why does the Itunes screen say 7.41 GB available on my Nano? It is advertised as an 8GB capacity. Is there anything I can delete on it now that will bump up that 7.4 GB?

 

Good grief. You haven't lost anything, and nothing is missing.

This is the age-old hard drive size marketing problem... Manufacturer's marketing report in absolute numbers (1000 per MB, base 10?), while PC systems - up until 10.6 Snow Leopard - report in byte (1024 base 8?, which equals ~0.93 x absolute). My terminology is slightly off, but the concept is correct.....

8 x 0.93 = ~7.44GB. The Nano also reserves a small portion of that for firmware etc.

 

just like buying a 500GB hard drive and it shows up as 465GB ....

base 2 vs base 10. Techincialyl everyone uses the wrong terminology.

You do have 8GB, but only 7.4 GiB which is what is showing up (same amount, different way to count it)... but most people just say Gigabytes instead of Giga Binary Bytes (Gibibytes). The computer industry has misused terms for many many years.

 

I need this in simpler terms.

I want to determine how many songs I can put on on this puppy.

Do I use 8GB or 7.4 as my number to divide into ?

Just the number as the answer please.

 

80 GB = 74 GB. There, simple.

 

Forgot the decimal buddy.

Use the 7.4 GB. Since the file sizes in Explorer are reported in base 2, you should use base 2 throughout your calculations.

 

Sorry, didn't read thoroughly. Thought we were talking about the 80 GB iPod. (Is there still an 80 GB iPod?)