So I am finally using iTunes...

I signed up for a package of Mac training sessions through the Apple Developer Connection.  There are like 100 training sessions and I could use Mac training so I bought it.  But in order to view them, you have to download them via iTunes.  So I broke down and installed it on my iLamp ( iMac g4 700 15” flat screen).  Anywho, I got it installed and got the sessions downloading and so I think to myself, I will check out some of the podcasts, they are free…

 

Okay, I am addicted to podcasts, mostly the video ones, but some audio ones.  This is part of my problem at this company, I use adopt new technology kicking and screaming because we just do use any of it and I forget all the cool new stuff I check out cause I can’t utilize any of it here!  Anyway…So I figure I will copy my music from my PC to my Mac and use it as a stereo, cause I sure don’t use it all that much now…

 

So I copy the music onto a flash drive and onto my Mac.  Fire up iTunes and…nothing.  It doesn’t find any of the mew tracks.  So I figured out that the new tracks are all in .wma.  So I download a freeware program called Switch (http://nch.com.au/switch) and install that…well I go to convert the first song and find out that, because I don’t have the Windows Media component for Quicktime (called Flip4Mac WMV) installed, it can’t be converted until I install it…Whew.  Well I go to Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx (it is another free download) and download and install it.  I fired up Switch again and so far so good, it is converting my files as I types this.  Hopefully I am well on my way to listening to my music on my Mac.