MP3 Player - Heeeeeelllllllpppppp

[flip-flop]

Have always been quite happy with my portable CD player whilst cycling to work, but foolishly thought an MP3 player would be even better as I could download the songs that I want.

I have figured out how to transfer my own CDs to the MP3 player (the manual may as well be written in Swahili), but am really struggling with getting tracks from the internet onto the MP3!

I've successfully bought the songs, which have successfully been put into my Windows Media Player : from there I've hit the Copy to Device button and then the copy button, which has successfully transfered the name of the artist and song to the MP3 player - BUT NOT THE DAMN MUSIC...........AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH.

This has now happened on the first six I've tried: I'm obviously doing something wrong, but have absolutely no idea what!

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

[spaced]

plug in you mp3 player (usually into USB port). Your PC should see this an an external drive, under My Computer. Just click and drag the song files (wherever you have saved them) on the icon that represents your mp3 player. The same way you would click and drag files onto a floppy disk

[wideboy]

Could be something to do with Digital Rights Management. Although you are talking about mp3s, if they are from the Internet (especially in Media Player) they might in fact be WMA files and protected ones at that. Some mp3 players won't play these (even if they say they play WMA files). Solution:- make sure the files ARE mp3 not WMA.

[sunnyside]

some songs downloaded from itunes for example, are mp4's and need to be converted to Mp3 format. you can buy converting software or burn the songs to a cd, then rip them again into the music folder of your choice. This for some reason converts them to mp3,